Question: What alternate name did Konami use to get around Nintendo's yearly limit?
Answer: Ultra Games

Question: For how many years did Nintendo require exclusivity on NES games?
Answer: two

Question: Which competitor caused Nintendo to end its restrictions on game developers?
Answer: Sega

Question: Which developer began releasing games for both NES and Sega in 1991?
Answer: Acclaim

Question: How did Nintendo rank submitted games?
Answer: using a 40-point scale

Question: What game first challenged Nintendo's anti-violence policy?
Answer: Mortal Kombat

Question: When was Mortal Kombat released in arcades?
Answer: 1992

Question: Which game console had a full-gore version of Mortal Kombat?
Answer: Genesis

Question: How much did the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat out-sell the SNES version?
Answer: three or four-to-one

Question: Which senators held a hearing about video game violence in 1993?
Answer: Herb Kohl and Joe Lieberman

Question: What was the focus of the hearing about video game violence in 1993?
Answer: the marketing of violent video games to children

Question: What organizations did the hearing about video game violence in 1993 lead to?
Answer: the Interactive Digital Software Association and the Entertainment Software Rating Board

Question: What regulatory change did the hearing about video game violence in 1993 lead to?
Answer: the inclusion of ratings on all video games

Question: How did video game ratings affect Nintendo?
Answer: Nintendo decided its censorship policies were no longer needed

Question: Which company developed Donkey Kong Country?
Answer: Rare

Question: How many copies of Donkey Kong Country were sold in its first 45 days?
Answer: 6.1 million

Question: What kind of computers were Donkey Kong Country's graphics rendered on?
Answer: SGI workstations

Question: How did Donkey Kong Country's quality compare to games on newer consoles?
Answer: detailed graphics, fluid animation and high-quality music

Question: When was Donkey Kong Country released?
Answer: November 1994

Question: How much did the SNS-101 cost in the US?
Answer: US$99

Question: What game was bundled with the SNS-101?
Answer: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Question: What features were removed in the SNS-101?
Answer: S-Video and RGB output

Question: What redesigned console was released in Japan at the time of the SNS-101?
Answer: Super Famicom Jr.

Question: When was the SNS-101 released in the US?
Answer: October 1997

Question: How were adapters used to get around PAL region restrictions?
Answer: by inserting the imported cartridge in one slot and a cartridge with the correct region chip in a second slot

Question: How was hardware modification used to get around PAL region restrictions?
Answer: disconnecting one pin of the console's lockout chip

Question: What problem did the hardware modification cause with later games?
Answer: hardware in later games can detect this situation, so it later became common to install a switch to reconnect the lockout chip as needed

Question: What video frequency does NTSC use?
Answer: 60 Hz

Question: What video frequency does PAL use?
Answer: 50 Hz

Question: How much slower do games run on PAL consoles than NTSC due to frequency differences?
Answer: 16.7% slower

Question: What hardware modification could be made to the SNES to support game speed differences?
Answer: a switch can be added to place the SNES PPU into a 60 Hz mode supported by most newer PAL televisions

Question: What color is the SNES?
Answer: predominantly gray

Question: Who designed the North American SNES?
Answer: Lance Barr

Question: What was Barr's job?
Answer: industrial designer

Question: What color were the North American SNES's buttons?
Answer: purple

Question: What color were the Japanese Super Famicom Jr.'s buttons?
Answer: gray

Question: How is the SNES's slot positioned?
Answer: top-loading

Question: What connection types did MULTI OUT support?
Answer: composite video, S-Video and RGB signals, as well as RF with an external RF modulator

Question: How many pins did the SNES expansion port have?
Answer: 28

Question: What output type was the only one directly supported on the SNS-101?
Answer: composite

Question: What other Nintendo systems used MULTI OUT?
Answer: Nintendo 64 and GameCube

Question: What material is the SNES case made of?
Answer: ABS plastic

Question: What chemical process turned some SNES cases yellow?
Answer: oxidization

Question: What mixture error in the plastic caused some SNES cases to turn yellow?
Answer: an incorrect mixture of the stabilizing or flame retarding additives

Question: How can SNES yellowing sometimes be reversed?
Answer: with UV light and a hydrogen peroxide solution

Question: Why would some SNESes be only partly yellow?
Answer: if the sections of the casing came from different batches of plastic

Question: What are SNES game cartridges officially called in the US?
Answer: Game Pak

Question: What are SNES game cartridges officially called in Japan?
Answer: Cassette

Question: How much data space can an SNES cartridge use?
Answer: 117.75 Mbit

Question: What were the largest SNES games?
Answer: Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean

Question: How much data do the smallest SNES games use?
Answer: 2 Mbit

Question: What face buttons do SNES controllers have that NES controllers didn't?
Answer: X and Y

Question: How many shoulder buttons do SNES controllers have?
Answer: two

Question: Who designed the SNES controllers?
Answer: Lance Barr

Question: What color are the US SNES controllers' X and Y buttons?
Answer: lavender

Question: What color are the US SNES controllers' A and B buttons?
Answer: purple

Question: What game accessory was similar to the NES Zapper?
Answer: Super Scope

Question: What game accessory was similar to the NES Advantage?
Answer: Super Advantage

Question: What game used the SNES Mouse?
Answer: Mario Paint

Question: What game came with a baseball bat controller?
Answer: BatterUP

Question: What type of accessory was the Super Scope?
Answer: light gun

Question: How did Nintendo say an NES and SNES could be used on the same TV?
Answer: either daisy chaining the RF switches or using AV outputs for one or both systems

Question: Which other game system's cartridges could be adapted to the SNES?
Answer: Game Boy

Question: What improvements did the Super Game Boy have over the Game Boy?
Answer: palette substitution, custom screen borders, and (for specially enhanced games) access to the SNES console

Question: Where was the Super Game Boy 2 released?
Answer: Japan

Question: What did the Super Game Boy 2 add?
Answer: a communication port to enable a second Game Boy to connect for multiplayer games

Question: What modem was available for the Japanese SNES?
Answer: Satellaview

Question: What service did the Satellaview connect to?
Answer: the St.GIGA satellite radio station

Question: When did the Satellaview begin operation?
Answer: April 23, 1995

Question: When did the Satellaview end operation?
Answer: June 30, 2000

Question: What was the US equivalent of Satellaview?
Answer: XBAND

Question: Which companies did Nintendo try to get to make a CD add-on for the SNES?
Answer: Sony and Philips

Question: What was Philips' multimedia system?
Answer: CD-i

Question: What competing console did Sony release after working with Nintendo?
Answer: PlayStation

Question: What was Sega's CD add-on?
Answer: Mega-CD

Question: What did Nintendo consider emulators?
Answer: flagrant software piracy

Question: What is the term for a software product abandoned by its owners?
Answer: abandonware

Question: What device allows backing up SNES games?
Answer: Retrode

Question: What is the term for homemade software?
Answer: homebrew

Question: What smartphones have SNES emulators?
Answer: Android devices, Apple's iPhone and iPad

Question: What was Nintendo's first approved emulator?
Answer: Nintendo's Virtual Console service for the Wii