Unit Two Games! Games! Games!

Computer games have become one of today's most popular pastimes. Whether it's at home in front of a TV or PC or in a game center, somewhere someone is playing a computer game. In his own "virtual reality," he is fighting a war, racing a car, or slaying an enemy.

It may be hard to believe, but commercial computer games are less than 30 years old. A company called Atari made one of the first home computer games for playing on one's TV. It was called Pong. When it appeared, no one had seen anything like it. It was a simple black and white TV computer game of ping-pong. A white ball was bounced back and forth between the paddles of two players. The ball sped up and slowed down just like a real ping-pong ball, and the game kept score automatically. In the 1970's, this seemed like magic. Atari sold 150,000 home versions of Pong in its first year..

Today's computer games have so much detail and life-like action that when you play them it feels like you're "virtually" there. There are even special halls with multi-user virtual reality games. With computers getting faster and more powerful, games are sure to become even more life-like and more exciting.

Questions

1. Home computer games appeared around 1979.
   select answer true false
   
   
   Virtual reality is a popular computer game.
   select answer true false
   

   The first computer game was like golf.
   select answer true false
   

   At first, computer games were not very popular.
   select answer true false
   

   What was the name of the first home computer game?
   select answer Atari Virtual Reality Pong Ping-pong
   

   At the time, the first TV computer game seemed like
   select answer a war magic an enemy a computer
   

   Which of the following is NOT true?
   select answer Atari introduced the first computer game in the seventies. Pong resembled a game of ping-pong. Computer games have become quite unpopular. Computer games are becoming more realistic.
   

   Can you find the word in the story that mean almost the same thing as kill.
   select answer sped seem slay pong
   

   Can you find the words in the story that mean the same thing as almost?
   select answer seemed special virtual magic
   

   Can you find the words in the story that mean almost the same thing as monochrome.
   select answer back and forth black an white virtual life-like