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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 2 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which Donkey Kong Country character wears a red cap marked with the Nintendo logo?

    Answer: Diddy Kong

    Diddy Kong wears a red cap and shirt as Donkey Kong's quick partner.

  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 Tekken character fights using a jaguar mask?

    Answer: King

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

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

    Answer: Vector display

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

  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 chip enabled polygonal graphics in the original Star Fox cartridge?

    Answer: Super FX

    The Super FX coprocessor helped the Super NES render Star Fox's polygonal scenes.

  2. Which cartridge-based Nintendo console launched in Japan in 1983?

    Answer: Family Computer

    Nintendo launched the Family Computer, commonly called the Famicom, in Japan in 1983.

  3. Which item lets Mario throw bouncing fireballs in Super Mario Bros.?

    Answer: Fire Flower

    The Fire Flower changes Super Mario into Fire Mario, who can launch fireballs.

  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 Final Fantasy VI character can use Tools such as the Auto Crossbow?

    Answer: Edgar

    Edgar Figaro's unique command operates mechanical Tools collected during the adventure.

Daily round

  1. Which NES game made the Konami Code famous by granting thirty lives?

    Answer: Contra

    Entering the code on Contra's title screen grants thirty starting lives in the NES version.

  2. 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.

  3. Which racing game introduced Captain Falcon?

    Answer: F-Zero

    Captain Falcon first appeared as a pilot in Nintendo's futuristic racing game F-Zero.

  4. 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.

  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. Who designed the Atari 2600 game Pitfall!?

    Answer: David Crane

    David Crane designed and programmed Pitfall! for Activision.

  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 company did former Atari programmers form to publish independent console games?

    Answer: Activision

    Four former Atari programmers helped establish Activision as an independent game publisher.

  4. What does the famous Konami Code begin with?

    Answer: Up, Up, Down, Down

    The Konami Code opens with two Up inputs followed by two Down inputs.

  5. Which game established B.J. Blazkowicz as its hero?

    Answer: Wolfenstein 3D

    Wolfenstein 3D follows Allied spy B.J. Blazkowicz through Nazi fortresses.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Which puzzle game has falling pieces called tetrominoes?

    Answer: Tetris

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

  3. Which Atari arcade game asks a triangular ship to destroy drifting space rocks?

    Answer: Asteroids

    Asteroids places a rotating triangular ship in a wraparound field of rocks and saucers.

  4. 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.

  5. What happens to Arthur's armor after one hit in Ghosts 'n Goblins?

    Answer: It falls away, leaving him in underwear

    The first hit strips away Arthur's armor, and another hit costs a life.

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 adventure game takes place primarily on an island reached through a linking book?

    Answer: Myst

    Myst begins when the player touches a moving panel in a book and arrives on Myst Island.

  3. 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.

  4. Which Sega series features the martial artist Ryo Hazuki?

    Answer: Shenmue

    Shenmue follows Ryo Hazuki as he investigates his father's death.

  5. Which company developed Doom?

    Answer: id Software

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

Daily round

  1. Which game uses a trackball to roll a marble through obstacle courses?

    Answer: Marble Madness

    Marble Madness gives players limited time to steer a marble down isometric courses.

  2. Which Sega mascot made his console debut in 1991?

    Answer: Sonic the Hedgehog

    Sonic the Hedgehog debuted on the Sega Genesis and Mega Drive in 1991.

  3. In which arcade fighting series did Terry Bogard debut?

    Answer: Fatal Fury

    Terry Bogard debuted as a lead fighter in SNK's Fatal Fury.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.