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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 11 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which 1993 shooter begins on Mars's moon Phobos?

    Answer: Doom

    Doom's first episode begins at a Union Aerospace Corporation base on Phobos.

  2. Which Nintendo 64 game introduced Princess Peach's castle as a 3D hub?

    Answer: Super Mario 64

    Super Mario 64 uses paintings inside Peach's castle to connect its three-dimensional courses.

  3. Which adventure game features pirate hopeful Guybrush Threepwood?

    Answer: The Secret of Monkey Island

    Guybrush begins The Secret of Monkey Island by declaring that he wants to be a pirate.

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

    Answer: Morph Ball

    The Morph Ball allows Samus to roll through narrow passages.

  5. Which Robot Master attacks with large cutting blades in the original Mega Man?

    Answer: Cut Man

    Cut Man throws the Rolling Cutter, a boomerang-like blade.

Daily round

  1. Which villain kidnaps Princess Toadstool in the original Super Mario Bros.?

    Answer: Bowser

    Bowser, king of the Koopa, holds Princess Toadstool captive.

  2. 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.

  3. Which simulation game lets players zone residential, commercial, and industrial areas?

    Answer: SimCity

    SimCity asks mayors to zone land and balance a growing city's services and finances.

  4. Which Tekken character fights using a jaguar mask?

    Answer: King

    King is a masked professional wrestler whose jaguar persona identifies him in Tekken.

  5. Who designed the original SimCity?

    Answer: Will Wright

    Will Wright designed SimCity after becoming interested in creating rather than merely destroying game worlds.

Daily round

  1. Which Castlevania hero enters Dracula's castle with the Vampire Killer whip?

    Answer: Simon Belmont

    Simon Belmont wields the Vampire Killer in the original Castlevania.

  2. Which character does Mario rescue in the original Donkey Kong arcade game?

    Answer: Pauline

    Mario climbs the construction site to rescue Pauline from Donkey Kong.

  3. 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.

  4. Which sequel made Ms. Pac-Man its playable maze hero?

    Answer: Ms. Pac-Man

    Ms. Pac-Man adds new mazes, moving fruit, and a bow-wearing protagonist.

  5. Which Soviet computer scientist designed the original Tetris?

    Answer: Alexey Pajitnov

    Soviet computer scientist Alexey Pajitnov designed Tetris in 1984.

Daily round

  1. Which company released the Super Nintendo Entertainment System?

    Answer: Nintendo

    Nintendo launched the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as its 16-bit home console.

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

    Answer: Dhalsim

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

  3. Which Atari arcade game uses a trackball to defend against insects and mushrooms?

    Answer: Centipede

    Centipede uses a trackball to maneuver a shooter through a mushroom field.

  4. Which EarthBound hero attacks with a baseball bat?

    Answer: Ness

    Ness equips baseball bats as his signature physical weapons in EarthBound.

  5. Which game casts a kiwi named Tiki as its hero?

    Answer: The NewZealand Story

    The NewZealand Story follows Tiki as he rescues fellow kiwis from captivity.

Daily round

  1. Which Capcom hero copies weapons from defeated Robot Masters?

    Answer: Mega Man

    Mega Man gains a new special weapon after defeating each Robot Master.

  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 designer's name appears in the title of Civilization?

    Answer: Sid Meier

    The 1991 strategy game was published as Sid Meier's Civilization.

  4. Which character laughs when the player misses ducks in Duck Hunt?

    Answer: The hunting dog

    Duck Hunt's dog rises from the grass and laughs after an unsuccessful round.

  5. What is hidden above the ceiling late in Super Mario Bros. World 1-2?

    Answer: A warp zone

    Running above the level's exit leads to pipes that warp Mario to later worlds.

Daily round

  1. Which beat-'em-up series takes place in Wood Oak City?

    Answer: Streets of Rage

    Streets of Rage sends former police officers against Mr. X's syndicate in Wood Oak City.

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

    Answer: Vector display

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

  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 puzzle game has falling pieces called tetrominoes?

    Answer: Tetris

    Tetris pieces are all arrangements of four connected squares called tetrominoes.

  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 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. Which Dr. Mario pieces are used to eliminate viruses?

    Answer: Vitamin capsules

    Dr. Mario clears red, blue, and yellow viruses by aligning matching vitamin capsule segments.

  3. Which Sega arcade game uses an isometric view of a spacecraft flying above a fortress?

    Answer: Zaxxon

    Zaxxon uses an isometric perspective and requires players to judge altitude.

  4. Which relic is assembled from eight fragments in the original Legend of Zelda?

    Answer: Triforce of Wisdom

    Link collects eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom before confronting Ganon.

  5. Which Nintendo series begins with Link receiving a sword from an old man in a cave?

    Answer: The Legend of Zelda

    The original Legend of Zelda famously opens with an old man giving Link a wooden sword.