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1. On which Nintendo platform was the original Super Mario Bros released?
Super Mario Bros was released in 1984 on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
N64
Game Boy
NES
Virtual Boy
2. Though Maze War is often credited as the first true FPS (first person shooter), which game franchise is the first to have established the genre as we know it today?
Wolfenstein 3D is often regarded as the grandfather of FPS games.
Wolfenstein
Doom
Quake
Duke Nukem
3. Which of these video game studios is NOT Japanese?
IO Interactive is a Danish developer behind the Hitman franchise.
Atlus
IO Interactive
Square Enix
Polyphony Digital
4. RPG stands for Role Playing Game. What does the C in CRPG stand for?
The genre is named "computer role playing game" to distinguish it from tabletop or pen & paper RPGs.
Computer
Character
Chinese
Choice-based
5. Which competitive video game has the highest payouts of any eSport?
Dota 2 prize pools at their premier event, The International, can get as high as $30,000,000.
Dota 2
Fortnite
Overwatch
League of Legends
6. What sets Final Fantasy XI and XIV apart from the rest of the series?
Both these games are the only MMOs, or Massive Multiplayer Online games, in the franchise.
They're MMOs, rather than single player
They're the only two FF games with the same protagonist
They're the only two FF games available on PC
They have real time combat instead of turn based
7. The fighting game franchise King of Fighters, is a crossover between characters from which two other fighting game franchises?
Though the games also feature some other games like Ikari Warriors, it is primarily a Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting crossover.
Melty Blood & Akatsuki Blitzkampf
Fatal Fury & Art of Fighting
Guilty Gear & BlazBlue
Tekken & Street Fighter
8. The Last of Us: Part 2 recently (as of early 2021) broke the record for most Game of the Year awards. Which game held the record before this?
Witcher 3 once held this record at 260 GOTY awards, before being overtaken by The Last of Us 2.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Minecraft
Grand Theft Auto V
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
9. What is the best selling home console of all time?
Sony's PlayStation 2 has sold over 150 million units.
Xbox 360
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 4
Nintendo Wii
10. Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest have distinctive character designs, with similar art style to a certain uber-popular manga and anime series. Which one?
Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball, also designed the characters of JRPGs Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest.
One Piece
Dragon Ball
Bleach
Naruto
11. Which of these is a hallmark of the "rogue-like" genre?
Named after 1980's Rogue, "rogue-likes" usually have procedurally generated levels and have you start from the beginning upon death.
Backtracking
Text-based gameplay
Permadeath
Point & Click gameplay
12. Which of these is NOT a hallmark of Ubisoft's open world design, which has bled into other open world games over the years?
Many modern open world games have mechanics and design philosophies inspired by Ubisoft franchises like Far Cry and Assassin's Creed.
Enemy territory to clear out/capture
Companions to accompany you, usually after a sidequest
"Checklist" worlds with various activities
Towers that reveal more of the map
13. Who coined the term "Immersive Sim", regarding games with systems encouraging creative problem solving, and emergent gameplay?
Warren Spector of Looking Glass Studios is widely regarded as the creator of the genre, and is behind titles like System Shock and Thief: The Dark Project.
Warren Spector
John Carmack
Gabe Newell
Chris Avellone
14. In the Devil May Cry games, Dante has four "styles" to choose from: Swordmaster, Gunslinger, Royal Guard, and...?
The Trickster style is focused on mobility, with various dodges and even teleports.
Devil Trigger
Trickster
Royal Release
Brawler
15. What was the first Need for Speed game to introduce extensive car customization?
As opposed to the previous releases focused on racing exotic cars, Underground was centered around tuner car culture.
High Stakes
Underground
ProStreet
Most Wanted
16. 4X refers to strategy titles where you can "Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate", and are centered around micromanagement and empire building. Which of these strategy titles is NOT 4X?
XCOM has you control a small squad of soldiers, rather than a large nation or empire.
XCOM
Europa Universalis
Stellaris
Civilization
17. What aspect of gameplay did the 2018 reboot of God of War leave behind from the original games?
Outside of context-sensitive situations, you cannot jump in God of War 2018.
Executions
Jumping
Multiple Weapons
Dodging
18. Before Bethesda's Fallout 3, Black Isle studios was working on their own version. What was the codename?
Unlike the 3D open world shooter that was Fallout 3, Van Buren would've stuck to the CRPG roots of the original games.
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout: Vault 13
Fallout: Van Buren
Fallout: New Vegas
19. What was the first Halo game (besides Halo Wars) where you play as someone other than Master Chief?
ODST has you take control of "the Rookie", an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper.
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo: Spartan Assault
Halo 3: ODST
Halo Reach
20. Which Souls game was series creator Hidetaka Miyazaki not heading the development for?
Dark Souls 2 was helmed instead by Yui Tanimura and Tomohiro Shibuya, Miyazaki was more involved with Bloodborne at the time.