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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 3 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which arcade game has the player protect cities from descending missiles?

    Answer: Missile Command

    Missile Command centers on intercepting attacks before they destroy six cities.

  2. Who created Mega Man in the original game's story?

    Answer: Dr. Light

    Dr. Light built the robot who volunteers to become Mega Man.

  3. Which Final Fantasy character is a dark knight from Baron?

    Answer: Cecil Harvey

    Cecil begins Final Fantasy IV as Baron's dark knight before seeking redemption.

  4. Which Williams arcade game uses two joysticks to rescue a human family?

    Answer: Robotron: 2084

    Robotron: 2084 uses one stick for movement and another for firing amid swarms of robots.

  5. Who designed Nintendo's Game Boy?

    Answer: Gunpei Yokoi

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

Daily round

  1. Which home console popularized removable game cartridges in 1977?

    Answer: Atari Video Computer System

    The Atari VCS, later called the Atari 2600, built a large library on interchangeable ROM cartridges.

  2. 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.

  3. What item temporarily lets Pac-Man eat ghosts?

    Answer: Power Pellet

    A Power Pellet turns the ghosts blue and vulnerable for a limited time.

  4. What is the name of the princess Link usually seeks to protect?

    Answer: Zelda

    Princess Zelda is the Hyrulean royal whose name titles the series.

  5. Which arcade game lets a knight ride a flying ostrich?

    Answer: Joust

    Joust has mounted knights collide in midair while riding ostrich-like birds.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. Who co-founded Atari with Ted Dabney?

    Answer: Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari in 1972.

  3. Which arcade game lets players serve drinks while sliding empty mugs back along a bar?

    Answer: Tapper

    Tapper requires quick service to customers at several horizontal bar counters.

  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 1978 Taito game sends rows of aliens downward toward a laser cannon?

    Answer: Space Invaders

    Space Invaders established the familiar formation of advancing aliens over defensive bunkers.

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 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.

  3. Which text adventure begins near a white house with a boarded front door?

    Answer: Zork

    Zork opens in a field west of a white house, a landmark of interactive-fiction history.

  4. Which studio developed The Secret of Monkey Island?

    Answer: Lucasfilm Games

    Lucasfilm Games, later LucasArts, developed The Secret of Monkey Island.

  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 dinosaur companion debuted in Super Mario World?

    Answer: Yoshi

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

  2. Which StarCraft species uses creep-covered organic structures?

    Answer: Zerg

    Zerg buildings grow on a biological ground covering called creep.

  3. Which studio developed Donkey Kong Country?

    Answer: Rare

    British developer Rare created Donkey Kong Country for Nintendo.

  4. 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.

  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 arcade fighting game introduced Ryu and Ken?

    Answer: Street Fighter

    Ryu and Ken are the two playable martial artists in the original Street Fighter.

  2. Which weapon does the hero use in Ghosts 'n Goblins?

    Answer: Lance

    Arthur begins Ghosts 'n Goblins by throwing lances at undead enemies.

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

    Answer: Cape Feather

    Collecting a Cape Feather transforms Mario into Cape Mario.

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

    Answer: Doom

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

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Who designed Space Invaders?

    Answer: Tomohiro Nishikado

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

  4. Which Super NES game follows Samus as she hunts Space Pirates on planet Zebes?

    Answer: Super Metroid

    Super Metroid returns Samus to Zebes in pursuit of the stolen Metroid larva.

  5. Who designed the arcade game Donkey Kong?

    Answer: Shigeru Miyamoto

    Shigeru Miyamoto designed Donkey Kong for Nintendo.