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Carol Shaw, an Uncommon card
Carol Shaw is an American video game designer. She is best known for creating the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter game River Raid for Activision.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Carol Shaw quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Carol Shaw card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She left game development in 1984 and ______ in 1990.
Answer
retired. She left game development in 1984 and retired in 1990. From the Carol Shaw article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Satoru Nakajima. Satoru Nakajima 73 · The Bloody Beetroots 69 · Theatre of Hate 63 · Carol Shaw 58 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- She worked for Atari, Inc. from 1978 to 1980, where she designed multiple games including 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe and Video Checkers, both for the Atari VCS before it was renamed to the 2600.
- In a male-dominated industry, she is widely believed to be the first female professional video game designer.
- She left game development in 1984 and retired in 1990.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Carol Shaw article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Carol Shaw
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Carol Shaw in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Roger ConantUncommon · History · ATK 61 DEF 50
- Satoru NakajimaUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 38
- Carmelita JeterUncommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 44
- Charlie SiffordUncommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 49
- CooperationUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 45
- Edwin BarclayUncommon · History · ATK 60 DEF 51
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Carol Shaw (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carol B Shaw, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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