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Test Your Game Knowledge 6:
The Answers Revealed

There were five correct answers this week...that's far better than the previous contest, that's for sure. Let's see how you did, shall we?

Question #1: Who were the four founders of id Software, and how many of them are still with the company?

Answer: The four founders of id Software were John Carmack, Adrian Carmack (no relation), Tom Hall and John Romero. Of the four, the two Carmacks remain.

Question #2: Doom was released for seven different console systems. Name them.

Answer: Super Nintendo,Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation, Nintendo 64, Atari Jaguar, Sega Genesis 32x, and 3DO.

Question #3: Lots of upcoming FPS games are going to feature real time voice communication (TRIBES 2, Team Fortress 2 and Delta Force 2 to name three), but what was the first FPS game to be released that featured this?

Answer: The first FPS title to feature real time voice communication was Marathon, by Bungie.

And the winners is...Eric Fate!

Congrats! E-mail us the name of the game you want, and we'll get that to you as soon as we remember to mail it.

And now...the oddball entries:

Question #1: This was a fairly easy question, so there weren't too many goofy answers. Some somewhat common, but definitely wrong answers were American McGee (he didn't come about until well after id's establishment), Jay Wilbur, and Kevin Cloud.

But of course, we have the silly answers:

"Tom Hall, the Carmack twins, and Ron Jamero. All are still with iD, 'cept for Ron who left to open a hair salon or something."
-- Jon Berry

"Romero, Carmack, Hook, Willits."
-- ImageOmega

"With the conjunctive "and" in contest question number one, question one becomes in fact 2 questions! fix dat s--t my brutha!"
-- Malacai[GDI]

"Forget the contest, I care about the TinyPrint!"
-- Alan Eisinger

"i'm so tired of these questions.. I'm just hoping to win by getting drawn randomly. anyway here are probably 2 left (carmack and carmack) and there were probably around 4 to start carmack, carmack, romero, hall)? I have no freaking clue. "
-- brian

"Uh, I'm too lazy to go dig up my copy of wolf3d to look..."
-- James Hall

Question #2: This one was also fairly easy, assuming you researched your answers, so not much in the way of silly answers. There were some funny entries because of consoles that couldn't possibly have had a Doom port (we even got some entries that still hadn't realized that Doom 2600 port was a joke).

"Super Nintendo, Gameboy, Sega Genesis, N64, Game Gear, Sega Saturn, Playstation"
-- haha

"A trick question - Bluesnews only covers PC games, therefore any question about steenking consoles is not relevent. Shame on you."
-- Jon Berry

"I can't think of seven different 'console' systems, but I can name seven different 'platforms': 1) DoS, Iwad, Sun, QNX, Next, SGI, Linux - SVGA & X11"
-- Eric P. Meyer

"Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, SegaCD, Sega 32X, Game Gear, 3DO, Atari (400, 800, XL, XE, 2600, 5200, 7800, Lynx, Jaguar), Playstation and Playstation 2, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Super Famicom, NES, Gameboy, Virtual Boy, Commodore 64, Turbo Grafx 16, Neo Geo, Amiga ^32, Vectrex, Odyssey 2, Intellivision, ColecoVision, Astrocade, and Phillips CD-i, of course."
-- cATVOMiT

Question #3: It would appear that everyone's default answer for these things is Rise of the Triad. I suppose that's the answer for a lot of trivia questions, but not this one. ROTT did in fact have voice communication in it, but not until version 1.3, and besides...Marathon shipped first (barely, but it did). The other most common answer was Rainbow Six, usually followed by, "but it didn't work very well." Go fig.

"No FPS game has had real time communication included."
-- Jeremy Mazzulla

"Due to reflex death, it's taken me about 20 minutes to type those few meager words and now it's nearly 3 AM, the time at which my brain shuts down...and with that, the first FPS game to have real-time voice communication was Quake 2 via that Battlecom thing (I'm assuming your question does not mean "the first FPS to ship with real-time voice support" even though the games that do ship with voice support simply ship with Battlecom on the CD. . . and even though Battlecom does support stuff like Descent 2, GLQuake and Quakeworld [okay, those are both Quake 1, and is it absolutely necessary for the comments within parentheses?], I'm fairly certain that wasn't in the very first beta version . . .then again, it's past 3 AM! Aargh, that means my brain has turned to jelly!)."
-- Daryl Surat

"None, I think. Trick question evilness I hope"
-- Jeff Gondek

"Doom, if you want to be tricky like that. I say Doom for number 3 because you could say that yelling at your friends at a LAN party is real time voice communication :-)."
-- Philippe Dugniolle

"I have a pet rat."
-- JIZITUP

"MiMaze, not really sure on this one.. Looked it up on the web though.. Maybe I'm reading this wrong."
-- Gargy

There you go, everyone...hope you all had fun...and hey! Woo! It's another contest! Enter away!

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