80's video games by description - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1980	Round yellow creature gobbles up pellets and avoids ghosts	Pac-Man	100%
1981	Ape throws barrels at a man while he climbs girders and ladders	Donkey Kong	98%
1982	Poorly-received movie tie-in game about an alien trying to go home	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	90%
1989	Falling pieces get arranged to complete lines in this game designed by a Soviet programmer	Tetris	87%
1985	Plumber tries to rescue a princess from a castle, but keeps finding mushroom people	Super Mario Bros.	86%
1981	Help an amphibian try to cross the road and avoid dangerous traffic	Frogger	84%
1986	Boy in a green tunic is given a sword by an old man in a cave, and heads off to rescue a princess.	The Legend of Zelda	84%
1984	Try to shoot an annoying dog, and also some birds	Duck Hunt	76%
1987	Little person boxes against ethnic stereotypes and a famous real-life boxer	Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!	70%
1986	Man with a whip fights Dracula	Castlevania	68%
1987	Blue robot defeats other Robot Masters and gains their powers	Mega Man	61%
1985	Kid on bike breaks neighborhood windows with newspapers	Paperboy	56%
1987	Two soldiers stop baddies from taking over the world, and use the Konami Code for more lives	Contra	50%
1982	A knight riding an ostrich defeats enemies to progress to the next level	Joust	29%
1983	Bartender serves drinks and tries not to drop any glasses	Tapper	29%