Game Classification

Switchquiz Switchsoft, Switchsoft, 1994  

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Classification

VIDEO GAME

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Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:

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Computerised quiz games are a good idea, you might think, with the potential for a huge range of questions, data disks for different subjects, and questions based on music or video clips. However, they also have the problem of working out who got a question right, which can reduce things to a contest for who can press the right key (and prevent their mates from pressing them)

Switchquiz?s novel solution was to have 4 separate controllers, each of which has 4 buttons, each representing one question answer, allowing for up to 4 players, and are plugged in via the Amiga?s parallel port. The game has 1000 questions, and each one gives points to each player who gets it right. You can alter how many points it takes tow in the match, and vary the time limit per question. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amiga

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