Welcome to Sunday School. My name is Dr. Breckon, and I'll be your administrator. Play nice, do your homework, and score high on your exams. That way we won't have to call your parents.

Quiz Results: Know Your Health Bars
Apparently health bars have been more ingrained in the memory of gamers than crates, concepts, or even sound effects.

Yes, the results of the health meter quiz were stellar, there's no getting around it. What a sorry state of affairs. As your teacher, I take the blame for failing to sufficiently challenge the class.

This week's scores have been posted here. You can also check out the answers to the health bar quiz.

The winner? Demius. Check your Shackmessages, you lucky dog.

Quiz of the Week: Know Your Adventure Game Music
So the past few weeks have turned out to be softballs. As such, we're going back to the challenging audio format this week, testing your knowledge of adventure gaming soundtracks. Winner gets a PlayStation 2 copy of MLB 08 The Show, or a PlayStation 3 copy of Unreal Tournament 3--his or her choice.

Ready to go? Get quizin'.

Quiz Methodology: So you think you know your gaming stuff, huh? Let's find out. Each week in Sunday School you'll be tasked with completing a quiz, the contents of which will vary in both form and topic. Your quiz score will be recorded and graded accordingly, and instead of a lame gold star or red check-mark, you'll have the chance to win awesome gaming paraphernalia.

Some of these quizzes will be difficult, and some will be a cinch. Anyone who participates will be eligible for the weekly prize drawing. However, those with the highest grades at the end of the semester will have more of a chance to win the secret grand prize. Keep your grades up, and you might win a fabulous reward.

Only registered Shacknews users will be able to participate, so go create an account if you haven't already done so. Due to the nature of the contest, we ask that you refrain from discussing answers in the comments.

Today's Mini-lesson: The Wrath of Yamauchi
"Hey, Steve Ballmer, why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls?"

Studious blog readers will surely remember the fake Wired interview with former Nintendo CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi from 2005, wherein the longtime Nintendo leader described a meeting in which he rebuffed a Microsoft buyout offer by responding to MS executive Steve Ballmer in a rather lewd fashion.

What some people may not know is that the prank was likely influenced by real-life events. By all accounts Yamauchi was a decent human being during his imperious rule over Nintendo from 1949 to 2002. However, he also had a reputation for being an enormously shrewd businessman when the situation required. This side of Yamauchi famously showed itself in 1983, just as Nintendo was making inroads into the video game industry with a game called "Donkey Kong."

At the time, Atari held the rights to publish Nintendo's hit arcade title Donkey Kong on home consoles. Following that successful agreement, the two companies began to form a deal that would have Atari bringing Nintendo's Famicon system to worldwide markets. Yamauchi and Nintendo executives Minoru Arakawa--Yamauchi's son-in-law--and Howard Lincoln flew to Chicago to attend the Consumer Electronics Show, where they would meet with Atari's people and finish the paperwork.

All was proceeding smoothly until, when walking the show floor at CES, the Nintendo entourage spotted Coleco's new console, Adam--playing an unlicensed copy of Donkey Kong. Coleco's stock shot up the day after. Atari threatened Nintendo with legal action, thinking they had been double-crossed.

What followed is one of my favorite stories from the gaming industry.

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