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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 8 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which falling-block puzzle game features Puyos?

    Answer: Puyo Puyo

    Puyo Puyo clears connected groups of colored, jelly-like Puyos.

  2. 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.

  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 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.

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

    Answer: Cape Feather

    Collecting a Cape Feather transforms Mario into Cape Mario.

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

  1. Which puzzle game has falling pieces called tetrominoes?

    Answer: Tetris

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

  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. Who designed the Atari 2600 game Pitfall!?

    Answer: David Crane

    David Crane designed and programmed Pitfall! for Activision.

  4. 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.

  5. Which studio developed The Secret of Monkey Island?

    Answer: Lucasfilm Games

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

Daily round

  1. 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.

  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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

Daily round

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

    Answer: Dr. Light

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

  2. Which arcade game first paired Mario with his brother Luigi?

    Answer: Mario Bros.

    Mario Bros. introduced Luigi as the second player's green-clad plumber.

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

    Answer: BurgerTime

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

  4. 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.

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

    Answer: Shenmue

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

Daily round

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Which Mortal Kombat ninja is associated with ice?

    Answer: Sub-Zero

    Sub-Zero uses freezing attacks and can immobilize opponents with ice.

  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 Super NES role-playing game follows Crono through different eras?

    Answer: Chrono Trigger

    Chrono Trigger uses time travel to connect prehistoric, medieval, present, and future settings.

Daily round

  1. Who designed Nintendo's Game Boy?

    Answer: Gunpei Yokoi

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

  2. What creatures emerge from pipes in the original Mario Bros. arcade game?

    Answer: Shellcreepers

    Shellcreepers are among the sewer pests Mario and Luigi defeat from below.

  3. Who designed the arcade game Donkey Kong?

    Answer: Shigeru Miyamoto

    Shigeru Miyamoto designed Donkey Kong for Nintendo.

  4. 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.

  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.