Mame game : quizshow : Quiz Show

Game infos

Description Quiz Show

Name quizshow

Manufacturer Atari (Kee Games)

Year 1976

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players ???

Added to MAME .145u6

Romset size 5 KB

Romset file 9 files

Romset zip 3 B

Language English

Genre Quiz

Driver infos

Driver status preliminary

Driver emulation preliminary

Driver color good

Driver sound good

Driver graphic good

Driver cocktail

Driver protection

Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no

Input tilt no

Input players 2

Input buttons

Input coins 2

Controls infos

type	ways	minimum	maximum	sensitivity	keydelta	reverse
only_buttons						no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	0	no	256	240	62.686567	6048000	360	0	256	268	0	240

Dipswitchs

Bonus Questions
- 0
- 1
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Coinage
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
Duration Mode
- Question Count
- Timed
Game Duration
- 100 sec. / 10 questions
- 110 sec. / 11 questions
- 120 sec. / 12 questions
- 130 sec. / 13 questions
- 140 sec. / 14 questions
- 150 sec. / 15 questions
- 160 sec. / 16 questions
- 170 sec. / 17 questions
- 180 sec. / 18 questions
- 190 sec. / 19 questions
- 200 sec. / 20 questions
- 50 sec. / 5 questions
- 60 sec. / 6 questions
- 70 sec. / 7 questions
- 80 sec. / 8 questions
- 90 sec. / 9 questions

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	005464-01.a1	512	c9da809a	0d16e552398069a4389c34cc9fb6dcc89eb05b9b	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	005464-02.c1	512	42237134	2932d4820f6c9a383cb5a4e504e043e2d479d474	maincpu	200	good	no
arcade	005464-03.d1	512	0c58fee9	c7b081bc4f274a29eb758c8758877b15c9e54d79	maincpu	400	good	no
arcade	005464-04.f1	512	4c6cffd4	c291d0fa140faa78b807af72c677d53c620b3103	maincpu	600	good	no
arcade	005464-05.h1	512	b8d61b96	eb437a5deaf2fc2a9acebbc506321f3151b4eafa	maincpu	800	good	no
arcade	005464-06.k1	512	200023b2	271d0b2b2f985a6c7b7146869ed00990a52dd653	maincpu	a00	good	no
arcade	005465-01.f2	512	0fe46552	d79b1ff0abfaba1ef2d564d1166c3696e0a1a3f1	proms	0	good	no
arcade	005466-01.m2	512	03017820	fd118aa706bdc6976e527ed63388fad01e66270e	user1	0	baddump	no
arcade	005466-02.n2	512	cd554367	04da83eb6e2f86f88a3495072b98fbdaca485ae8	user1	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
1-Bit DAC	dac	audio
S2650	maincpu	cpu	756000
Speaker	speaker	audio

0.145u6 [hap, Siftware]

WIP:

- 10th January 2016: Smitdogg - Andy Welburn is working on research to be able to dump the Atari Quiz Show tapes.

- 0.155: hap added Quiz Show 2nd chr prom from Atari's source archive, may have some bad bits.

- 24th January 2014: Smitdogg - Thanks to recent donations we got the tapes for Kee/Atari's Quiz Show. Andy Welburn is going to dump them for us later this year (we got the original version and Rev.A) and he also has some board sets of it so he is going to dump the missing chip so the driver can be completed.

- 0.151: Siftware dumped one of the gfx proms, the other one was wounded in action.

- 0.145u6: hap and Siftware added 'Quiz Show' (Atari 1976). hap added sound, color overlay and resized tiles from 8*8 to 8*12+offset. Added DAC sound and mono Speaker.

History

Arcade Video game published 43 years ago:

Quiz Show (c) 1976 Kee Games.

Say The Secret Word and Win... Quiz Show asks 250 different questions in each category. Players can select 'sports', 'general knowledge', 'movies' or 'people'. Each question displays four possible answers which appear in different colors. Hit the colored button on the control console that corresponds to the correct 'answer' color on the monitor, the contestant scores. High for a fast answer, low if it's a head-scratcher. Player can test him or herself, or challenge a partner for highest score.

- TRIVIA -

Quiz Show is believed to be the first game to utilise the now well-known 'arcade font' (formerly thought to have been first introduced with Sprint 2 or Cannonball, but Quiz Show predates these two games by six months). This font is likely to have been designed by Lyle Rains and has since been used by many non-Atari games manufacturers including Namco, Irem, Nichibutsu, and Nintendo.

As you can see in the description, Quiz Show contains a total of 1000 questions and 4000 possible answers.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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Quiz Show