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So you love video games. You’ve battled the big bosses, you’ve rescued the princesses, and you’ve died (and been resurrected) more times than you can count. But is your retro gaming knowledge as strong as your resolve? There’s only one way to find out…
1. Let’s start at the beginning: the very first arcade game was released in 1971. What was it called?
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2. High score leader boards introduced an addictively competitive element to arcade games, with gamers coming back week after week to try and gain or maintain legendary top-score status. What was the first arcade game to feature a leader board?
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3. One of the most iconic video game characters of all time, the insatiable Pac-Man is on a mission to gobble up as many dots as possible while avoiding a host of ghosts. How many ghosts are after him?
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4. As the first video game to achieve commercial success, Pong helped establish the video game industry as we now know it. What company was responsible for designing and manufacturing Pong in 1972?
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5. Before Mario had his own game franchise, he appeared as a character in 1981’s Donkey Kong – but he wasn’t a plumber. What was Mario’s original profession?
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6. In Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda, the player is confronted with a simple first task to complete before the adventure begins. The task is to retrieve what?
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7. What is widely considered the best-selling video game of all time?
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8. The best-selling video game console of all time is Sony’s PlayStation 2. It was also the first gaming console to feature …
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9. The early ‘90s saw the meteoric rise of handheld game consoles that allowed for portable play anywhere, any time. Nintendo’s Game Boy is the most fondly remembered, but it wasn’t the only show in town. There was also Atari’s Lynx, NEC’s TurboExpress and Sega’s…
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10. Aside from being banned in Germany for its use of Nazi iconography, Wolfenstein 3D is famous for establishing which video game genre?
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11. True or false: Following financial difficulties in the early ‘80s, Atari buried hundreds of thousands of its unsold game cartridges in the New Mexico desert.
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12. Anyone who has ever played Tetris has had the theme song stuck in their head at least once. What is the theme song based off of?
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13. The Sega Genesis was one of the defining consoles of the early 1990s. Which of the following titles could NOT be played on the console?
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14. Beloved computer game The Sims is a simulation game that allows players to ‘build’ virtual people and control their choices and daily lives. But it didn’t start out that way: designer Will Wright initially set out to create a game centred on...
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15. Do smartphone games count as video games? Of course! What is the #1 most-downloaded mobile game of all time?
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16. We finish with a toughie: One of the very first playable human female characters in a video game, Samus Aran is the protagonist of Nintendo’s Metroid… which was released in what year?
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