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Retro Games Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 1 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. What is the name of the Mother Brain's planet in the original Metroid?

    Answer: Zebes

    The original Metroid takes place in the caverns of planet Zebes.

  2. Who designed the arcade game Donkey Kong?

    Answer: Shigeru Miyamoto

    Shigeru Miyamoto designed Donkey Kong for Nintendo.

  3. Who designed Nintendo's Game Boy?

    Answer: Gunpei Yokoi

    Gunpei Yokoi led the team that developed the Game Boy handheld.

  4. Which Street Fighter II character stretches his limbs to attack?

    Answer: Dhalsim

    Dhalsim can extend his arms and legs across much of the screen.

  5. Which arcade game has the chef Peter Pepper build giant hamburgers?

    Answer: BurgerTime

    BurgerTime sends Peter Pepper across food layers while avoiding animated ingredients.

Daily round

  1. Which role-playing series features the hero Adol Christin?

    Answer: Ys

    Red-haired adventurer Adol Christin is the recurring protagonist of the Ys series.

  2. Which ability lets Samus curl into a small sphere?

    Answer: Morph Ball

    The Morph Ball allows Samus to roll through narrow passages.

  3. Which 1986 Taito game expands Breakout with power-ups and an enemy called Doh?

    Answer: Arkanoid

    Arkanoid modernizes the paddle-and-brick formula with capsules, enemies, and boss stages.

  4. Which console is called the Mega Drive outside North America?

    Answer: Sega Genesis

    Sega marketed the 16-bit Mega Drive as the Genesis in North America.

  5. Which company developed Doom?

    Answer: id Software

    id Software developed and self-published the original shareware episode of Doom.

Daily round

  1. Which puzzle game has players match falling colored jewels in vertical groups of three?

    Answer: Columns

    Columns drops stacks of three jewels that can be rearranged to form matching lines.

  2. What was the Atari VCS officially renamed in 1982?

    Answer: Atari 2600

    Atari renamed the Video Computer System the Atari 2600 after introducing the 5200.

  3. Which game challenges players to dig tunnels and inflate underground enemies?

    Answer: Dig Dug

    Dig Dug defeats Pookas and Fygars by inflating them or dropping rocks.

  4. What power-up gives Mario a cape in Super Mario World?

    Answer: Cape Feather

    Collecting a Cape Feather transforms Mario into Cape Mario.

  5. In Pac-Man, which named ghost is colored red?

    Answer: Blinky

    Blinky is the red ghost and directly pursues Pac-Man more aggressively as pellets disappear.

Daily round

  1. Which Game Boy launch title helped make Nintendo's handheld a success?

    Answer: Tetris

    Nintendo bundled Tetris with many Game Boy systems, giving the puzzle game a broad audience.

  2. Which 1972 Atari arcade game simulates table tennis with two paddles and a square ball?

    Answer: Pong

    Pong reduces table tennis to two vertical paddles batting a square dot across the screen.

  3. Which arcade game asks a cyclist to deliver newspapers along a suburban street?

    Answer: Paperboy

    Paperboy combines newspaper delivery with an obstacle-filled bicycle route.

  4. Which arcade game introduced the maze enemy Evil Otto?

    Answer: Berzerk

    Berzerk's bouncing Evil Otto chases players who linger in robot-filled rooms.

  5. Which resource do workers harvest in the original Warcraft?

    Answer: Gold and lumber

    Warcraft's human and orc workers gather gold and lumber to build and train units.

Daily round

  1. Which strategy game features rival Brotherhood of Nod and GDI factions?

    Answer: Command & Conquer

    The original Command & Conquer centers on the conflict between GDI and the Brotherhood of Nod.

  2. Which dinosaur companion debuted in Super Mario World?

    Answer: Yoshi

    Yoshi first appeared as Mario's rideable dinosaur ally in Super Mario World.

  3. Which arcade game stars bubble-blowing dragons Bub and Bob?

    Answer: Bubble Bobble

    Bubble Bobble lets Bub and Bob trap enemies inside bubbles across single-screen stages.

  4. Who designed Space Invaders?

    Answer: Tomohiro Nishikado

    Taito designer Tomohiro Nishikado created Space Invaders and its custom hardware.

  5. Which display technology gave Asteroids its crisp glowing line graphics?

    Answer: Vector display

    Asteroids uses a vector monitor that draws bright geometric lines directly.

Daily round

  1. Which motion performs Ryu's Hadoken in Street Fighter II?

    Answer: Quarter-circle forward plus punch

    The standard Hadoken command rolls the directional input from down to forward and adds punch.

  2. Which arcade game places Q*bert on a pyramid of cubes?

    Answer: Q*bert

    Q*bert changes cube colors by hopping across an isometric pyramid.

  3. Who created Pac-Man?

    Answer: Toru Iwatani

    Namco designer Toru Iwatani led the creation of Pac-Man.

  4. Which four batteries power the original Game Boy?

    Answer: AA batteries

    The original Game Boy uses four standard AA batteries.

  5. Which game was commonly bundled with the Nintendo Entertainment System's Zapper package?

    Answer: Duck Hunt

    Many NES console sets paired Super Mario Bros. with the light-gun game Duck Hunt.

Daily round

  1. Which Konami game features commandos Bill Rizer and Lance Bean?

    Answer: Contra

    Bill Rizer and Lance Bean are the two playable commandos in versions of Contra.

  2. Which Soviet computer scientist designed the original Tetris?

    Answer: Alexey Pajitnov

    Soviet computer scientist Alexey Pajitnov designed Tetris in 1984.

  3. Which arcade game stars bubble-blowing dragons Bub and Bob?

    Answer: Bubble Bobble

    Bubble Bobble lets Bub and Bob trap enemies inside bubbles across single-screen stages.

  4. Which arcade game uses a rotary dial to guide a claw-shaped ship around geometric lanes?

    Answer: Tempest

    Tempest uses a spinner control to move the player along the rim of a vector tube.

  5. What name did the Famicom receive in North America?

    Answer: Nintendo Entertainment System

    The redesigned Famicom launched in North America as the Nintendo Entertainment System.