Trivia Contest for 360 Robotron Code - Over, thanks for playing.

L

Lapperscrapper

CAGiversary!
Feedback
1 (100%)
CONGRATS to rjarmstrong100 for winning the robotron code. Thanks to everyone who showed up to play. I hope to do something else in the future, and even have a pretty cool idea, but I dont have anything to give away at the moment.


Hey everyone -
I have an extra code for ROBOTRON: 2084 on xbox live arcade for the 360, and I thought I would share it with the CAG community. After seing the popularity of Brain's contests, I figured I would give it a shot. By the way, Brain is way cooler than me, I could only hope to give as much away as he does.

OK, so here is the deal. Come back at 1pm eastern time today, Friday June 8, and I will post 4 trivia questions. These will be trivia questions about the game industry, so you guys who read the gamespot news about studio acquisitions... this one is for you. Guess the questions, and I will PM you the code.

OK, nobody posted, but I will put up the trivia questions anyway. Answer these and get a code for Robotron 2084 for the Xbox 360 Live Arcade. All I ask is that you do not have the game already.

1.) What video game holds the record for "Most expensive video game development ever"?

2.) What movie prominetly features the game "Shadow of the Colossus"?

3.) The co-founder of what game developer said this? "Yeah, I grew up on the Apple II and then the Mac. I wrote all this C code for PCs though, before I even went to school. This was the heyday of PCs, with Wing Commander and stuff. The PC market was really cutthroat, but the Mac market was all friendly and lame. So it was easier to compete."

4.) What do the Metroid: Prime and Turok game series have in common? (Looking for a name)

Good luck to anyone and everyone.

Hopefully I will still be around when someone gets the right answers, but if no one gets it within two hours, then I will probably be gone until Monday, and will PM the code to whoever posted the correct answer first.

Lastly, I was hoping to give this away to someone who, like me, likes video games, but does not spend 24/7 with them and has played every game ever. That is why I picked some industry trivia instead of a box art mix up like Brain. Those seem to go to the most hardcore players who have memorized the boxes of every game in existance. If only I had the time to game that much. So I was going to give this away to only those who had joined in the past year, but decided against that because its only a $5 robotron code. Maybe if I have something else to give away, I will think about it.
 
1. Shenmue

2. Reign Over Me

3. Jason Jones (Bungie)

4. The Director of Metroid Prime, Mark Pacini, was Project Manager on a Turok game for the N64. or

Each video game series has a game title with the word hunter in it.
 
1. Shenmue

2. Reign Over Me

3. Jason Jones

4. Halo 3 (they both look better than...)

wow...that last question really is hard....you'd have to live on gamspot.com to know it.....i guess you do, Lapperscrapper...not that there's anything wrong with that...um..nevermind. Cool contest!
 
[quote name='rjarmstrong100']1. Shenmue

2. Reign Over Me

3. Jason Jones

4. Mark Pacini (Director of Metroid Prime, Project Manager of Turok: Rage Wars[/quote]

I smell a winner. Drat!
 
The last question was supossed to be pretty hard, I'll try to give a couple hints.

First, this may not help at all, but it could be a tiny hint.

The upcoming next-gen Turok by Buena-Vista is not included in the question... it does not share the thing in common with the rest.
 
1. Shenmue

2. Reign Over Me

3. Jason Jones

4. Mark Pacini, worked as Director on Metroid Prime and Project Manager on Turok: Rage Wars.

ACK! Too slow in clicking "submit". :(
 
[quote name='rjarmstrong100']1. Shenmue

2. Reign Over Me

3. Jason Jones

4. Mark Pacini (Director of Metroid Prime, Project Manager of Turok: Rage Wars[/QUOTE]
Not quite a winner, but close by going for the name of a person. Looking for a differet person though.
 
[quote name='Lapperscrapper']....So I was going to give this away to only those who had joined in the past year, but decided against that because its only a $5 robotron code. Maybe if I have something else to give away, I will think about it.[/QUOTE]

Its cool to give free stuff back to the CAGer community, but if you set the rule "Only people that joined in the last year" I don't think thats fair. I'm not just saying that because Ive been around for a while, but if I had a contest and said "No one that only joined in the last year can win" I don't think that would be too fair either. Sometimes it takes folks longer to find our site.
 
OK, I am going to call it here. Congrats to rjarmstrong100, I will PM the code soon. I would let you keep guessing what my vague question referred to, but I have to leave for the weekend.

Good find (or knowledge) that Mark Pacini worked on both series, but the reason for that is probably the real answer. The answer I was looking for was "Jeff Spangenberg", who founded both of the studios responsible for the Turok and Metroid:prime games. He founed Iguana studios in 1991, which was bought by Acclaim and developed the Turok series. After Turok 2 was completed, Jeff left to form Retro studios, which eventually formed a deal with Nintendo and made the Metroid: Prime series. (This could be why Turok games went downhill.) After the move, he brought some of his old co-workers with, explaining why Mark Pacini worked on the two games. Anyway, a little trivia for when you get Metroid Prime 3 this fall.

OK, thanks for playing everyone. Have a good weekend.

Oh, and to Jousley, I understand your point, that would be unfair, and is why I decided against it. I was thinking that I want to give something away to those who are getting into video games more and more, not those who already have everything and are diehard gamers. I will just think about how to do that without being unfair for next time.
 
[quote name='Lapperscrapper']OK, I am going to call it here. Congrats to rjarmstrong100, I will PM the code soon. I would let you keep guessing what my vague question referred to, but I have to leave for the weekend.

Good find (or knowledge) that Mark Pacini worked on both series, but the reason for that is probably the real answer. The answer I was looking for was "Jeff Spangenberg", who founded both of the studios responsible for the Turok and Metroid:prime games. He founed Iguana studios in 1991, which was bought by Acclaim and developed the Turok series. After Turok 2 was completed, Jeff left to form Retro studios, which eventually formed a deal with Nintendo and made the Metroid: Prime series. (This could be why Turok games went downhill.) After the move, he brought some of his old co-workers with, explaining why Mark Pacini worked on the two games. Anyway, a little trivia for when you get Metroid Prime 3 this fall.

OK, thanks for playing everyone. Have a good weekend.

Oh, and to Jousley, I understand your point, that would be unfair, and is why I decided against it. I was thinking that I want to give something away to those who are getting into video games more and more, not those who already have everything and are diehard gamers. I will just think about how to do that without being unfair for next time.[/QUOTE]

Yay! More food for thought! Never heard of Spangenberg before, thanks for the slight boost in my GamerIQ
 
[quote name='crzyboy88']Timtaron answered first...[/QUOTE]
He edited it. His first answer said they were both developed for Nintendo consoles or something to that effect.
 
[quote name='Timtaron']Why wasn't I considered?[/quote]

maybe because you edited your post after you saw a potentially correct answer...way to be a cheater and a sore loser...
 
I'd figured that the answer to number one would have been Duke Nukem 4 Ever or Falcon 4.0, but I guess I can't find any hard numbers on the dev costs on those.
 
[quote name='Malik112099']maybe because you edited your post after you saw a potentially correct answer...way to be a cheater and a sore loser...[/quote] Maybe you can shut your fuckin' mouth. I edited the post before I saw his answer. Thanks for the contest though.
 
[quote name='Timtaron']Maybe you can shut your fuckin' mouth. I edited the post before I saw his answer. Thanks for the contest though.[/quote]

fuckin A, calm down newbie. You can't edit posts in contests to begin with, it just asks for trouble.

Grow up a bit.
 
Thanks for playing everyone.

For the first question, Shenmue still holds the guiness record for most expensive video game development, though the exact number for a lot of games is probably not available, so Shenmue is the correct answer, but unofficially, it might not be. Shenmue took almost 10 years, and for much of that time a team of 50 or more was on the project. The offical cost is $20 million, but some sources say $70 million. I think Duke Nukem 4ever still has a fairly small team of 10-20 people, though 3DRealms is a private studio, so we dont know much. Prey took 10 years also, but for about 2 years, only one person was working on the game, so the development didnt add up during that time. I think more likely would be a game that didnt take forever, but had a lot of work into it. I remember that Square said that FFX was their first project to include more than 100 team members. No doubt that Halo 3 is eating up a big chunk of money, and Too Human and Killzone 2 seem to be big productions that are taking some time.

As for editing posts, I was going to put that in the rules, but I forgot. I wouldnt give a prize to any edited post. That, like Chaotic said, is asking for trouble. It should be an unwritten rule that there is no editing posts in contests.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
bread's done
Back
Top