Buzz!
Multiplayer quiz series with buzzer controllers and a fictional game show host.
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Restaurant owner Stewart Jones came up with the idea and then sold it to Sony.[1] More than 10 million copies of the series have been sold.[2]
Making and release
The BAFTA award for Best Casual and Social game in 2006 went to Buzz!: The BIG Quiz, the second title in the series.[2] Buzz!: Quiz World, released in 2009, added features like profiles that store a player's character and buzzer sounds, building on what Quiz TV offered.[3] Both a PS3 version and a PSP version are included in Quiz World.[3] The buzzers or a DualShock 3 controller can be used to play Quiz Player.[3]
A children's spin-off series began in October 2006 with Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party, which contains 40 mini games.[4] Cohort Studios created their first game in the series, Buzz! Junior: Robo Jam, which came out in May 2007.[4]
What the cited sources add
The space includes "Buzz!: Studio", a 64-player quiz where content is fed via MyBuzzQuiz.com, a site for users to create their own trivia questions.[5] Users who hit Buzz ten times within the time limit won a Buzz! Tomato Head for their avatar.[6][7] The "Buzz! Tomato Challenge" event took place in the PlayStation Events Space from 27 August 2009 to 24 September 2009.[6][7] During that event, participants answered quiz questions correctly to throw tomatoes at a large rotating Buzz.[6][7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Buzz!" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bicknell, "Buzz is the business", icNorthWales, 25 October 2008; "Buzz Relentless Q and A", thumbbandits.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Buzz!" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Games Nominations 2006", BAFTA, 2006; Purchese, "BAFTA game nominations revealed: COD4, Fable II, GTAIV, LBP top the bill", Eurogamer, 10 February 2009; Phillips, "Buzz! developer Relentless shut down", Eurogamer, 5 August 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Buzz!" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Buzz! Quiz Player (2010)" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Buzz!" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "PlayStation Games: - Buzz! Junior: Ace Racers", Uk.playstation.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "This Week in PlayStation Home: Buzz! and Fight Night Space Launches, and More!", SCE, 15 July 2009. facts only, no text reused. blog.us.playstation.com
- Linger, "The Buzz! Tomato Challenge Makes Its Way Into PlayStation Home", SCE, 26 August 2009. facts only, no text reused. blog.eu.playstation.com
- Wikipedia, "Buzz!" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Linger, "The Buzz! Tomato Challenge Makes Its Way Into PlayStation Home", SCE, 26 August 2009 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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- Wikipedia: Buzz! (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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