Video Games By Their Genres Trivia Quiz

Answer: Stinky

The four ghosts from this classic arcade game were Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde. Over the years, the Pac-Man character has made a slight comeback on the Game Boy Advance and in various "Namco Anniversary and Museum" games. His original game, which spanned 256 levels, is a basic maze where you have to control Pac-man in order to eat the little dots. Along the way, the four ghosts will try to attack you, but you can stop them by eating the power pills in the level. This will make them change colour, and it will allow you to eat them for points. You will also have the chance to eat fruits for points (like cherries and grapes). Over the years, the game has spawned many sequels such as "Ms. Pac-man", and in 1982, he was "MAD Magazine's" Man of the Year.

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Answer: Fights could never be finished in the allotted time due to a shoddy hit detection system.

'Shaq-Fu' was originally released in 1994 for the Sega Game Gear, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and Game Boy. Th game was published by Electronic Arts and featured Shaquille O'Neal as the main playable character. The story of the game was as follows: Whilst traveling to Tokyo in honor of a charity basketball game, he somehow ends up in a Kung-Fu dojo, and gets warped into another dimension. He is then forced to rescue a boy from a mummy named Sett-Ra. Sounds exciting? It really isn't. It is regarded as one of the worst games ever due to its shoddy hit detection system and its inclusion of Shaquille O'Neal. The hit detection system only allowed hits to the exact center of your opponent. As a result, battles went all the way through the allotted time limit. Regardless of its faults, the game is now considered a collectors item, and due to its abundance, upon release, it is super easy to find at almost any used game store.

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Answer: Just to kill everyone that is in the same game room

The game 'GunZ' is a MMORPG and a shooting game (as you can tell by the name), but that is not 100% correct. As you enter a game room there are different modes of gameplay such as: Deathmatch, where you just kill everyone, or Team Deathmatch, where your team tries to eradicate the other team and other modes. The weapons include a variety of guns, a variety of grenades and variety of combat weapons like swords and kodachis.

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Answer: An unlimited number of laterals are allowed on a single play.

The fast-paced, arcade style of the game of "NFL Blitz" is likely its most appealing feature. The original game heavily favors the offense as the player's defensive players controlled by the AI provide little help. "NFL Blitz" adheres to the general NFL scoring and play rules, but there are no penalties. Although it is rarely seen, multiple laterals are allowed on a single play in the NFL.

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Answer: Adventure

The "Banjo-Kazooie" series focuses more on special abilities and collecting items than it does just bashing around a bunch of enemies to complete the game. There're a few puzzles and riddles mixed in with areas that require reflexes and skill. Quite often you'll find yourself having to use certain moves to perform specific acts, or acquire particular items, in a certain order, with a few bad guys in the way (which really don't pose much of a threat, rather than just slowing you down).

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Answer: Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls

The question was referring to the "Final Fantasy I" part of the game. A Black Mage learns offensive spells, such as the three mentioned. The spell Dark has a chance of inflicting the Darkness status condition to all enemies, while Sleepra has a fairly good chance of inflicting the Sleep status condition on one enemy, and Firaga quite simply inflicts some good fire damage on all foes. Although the one correct game is a fairly popular Game Boy Advance RPG, the rest are as well.

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Answer: Four

Story mode is a series of games that you can play using either Dr. Mario or Wario. Depending on who you use, you can unlock Metal Dr. Mario and Vampire Wario. After beating story mode once on normal difficulty or higher, you unlock one of those characters and it tells you how to play story mode with a higher difficulty level. If you press the "Z" button while the hard difficulty is highlighted, it changes into S-Hard difficulty. "Dr. Mario", is not only found on its original system, but it is also available as a Game Boy Advance classic game, much like "Ice Climbers", "Donkey Kong", and "Metroid".

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Answer: 'Spasism' and 'Maze War'

As the answer says, the two games that claim to be the original first-person shooter are 'Spasism' and 'Maze War'. Although most credibility of the claim goes to 'Spasism', 'Maze War' has plenty of persuasive evidence, as well. 'Spasism' was 3D networked game with four planetary systems that needed to be defended and eight people who defended each one. It was developed and released in March of 1974. In the game, players flew around space in wire frame space-ships, all in the first person, and attempted to shoot one another down. 'Maze War', is also a networked 3D first person shooter that claims to be the original. In the game, players moved around a maze while trying to eliminate one another with guns. The development company doesn't remember when it made the game, but it is rumored that development occurred in the summer of 1973, with a fully networked version available in 1974. Whether 'Spasism' or 'Maze War' is the beginning of the shooter genre we will likely never know, but one thing's for sure: these two games brought to the public a magical genre that has evolved to a cultural phenomena, and like any genre with anything offensive in it, plenty of political attention.

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Answer: Wario

Wario is the only of those characters that is playable. The other characters are just variations of playable characters. Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong; Waluigi, Luigi; Baby Bowser, Bowser.
Racing games have remained steady in popularity since they were first released. Some of the more popular series of racing games have been the "Mario Cart", "Gran Turismo", and "Need For Speed". Each systems has some pretty popular racing games, and many have different imaginative themes or cars.

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Answer: "Donkey Kong Country (SNES)" and "Donkey Kong Land (GBC)"

"Donkey Kong Land" and "Donkey Kong Country" were two completely different games because both had levels and stages which varied in every way. In both games, both Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong need to stop the evil K. Rool.
Still think you haven't played a platform game? Well, they're still making them, and they've been some of the most popular games released. Some of these include Gamecube's "Super Mario Sunshine", PS2's "Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus", Xbox's "Psychonauts", and classic favourites like "Conker's Bad Fur Day" for the N64 and the original "Donkey Kong" arcade game.
In platform games, players need to navigate through 2-D or 3-D areas while jumping to different levels, gaining new powers, and fighting enemies. The term 'platform game' was used because the original games (like "Donkey Kong" and "Super Mario Bros" focused more on jumping on platforms than actually shooting an enemy. As more and more new games are produced, the original concept still remains, but more unique ideas are added.

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Answer: Triviaballer who chose "Starcraft"

Flight Simulators are the games where you take control of a flying craft. Most Flight Simulators are Combat Simulators, and incorporate dogfights (mid-air fighting between aircraft) and other aerial challenges. Most Flight Simulators require a Joystick or game pad to be played (if you are using a PC). "Starcraft", made by Blizzard, is a Real-Time Strategy game.
Of course, Flight Simulators are a small part of the simulator genre. Some other popular Simulation games have been "RollerCoaster Tycoon", "Simcity" and "The Sims".

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Answer: Follow the pattern of arrows that appear on the arcade screen and the rhythm of the song by stepping on the corresponding arrows on a dance pad.

The 'Dance Dance Revolution' game series were first introduced in Japan in 1998. Developed and published by Konami, more than 90 different versions of the series have been released around the world. The 'Dance Dance Revolution' games have become so popular that worldwide competitions are held and even some fitness experts have recommended playing the game as an aerobic workout. These games have been released on systems by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

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Answer: Path of Radiance

"Fire Emblem: Rekka no ken" (or "The Blazing Sword"), was the seventh game in the series, and had no English subtitle, due to it being the first "Fire Emblem" game released outside Japan. "Fire Emblem: Seima no Kōseki" (or "The Sacred Stones"), the eighth "Fire Emblem" installment, and "Fire Emblem: Sōen no Kiseki" (or "Path of Radiance") kept the series going after that and were also released outside Japan.

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Answer: He gets shot

"Call of Duty 2" is a war game that follows the facts. It goes through three campaigns each with nine missions. Russia, in which you hold back the Nazi troops invading Stalingrad and British, you try to take out all of Rommel's troops. There is also American, in which you try to storm Normandy and a few other towns in France. "Call of Duty 2" was the first War-based game and one of the original games released on the Xbox 360.

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Answer: Jill Valentine

"Resident Evil 1" can be played on the Gamecube, PS1, PC, or Sega Saturn. Like many of the other "Resident Evil" games, it's quite full of zombies, the T-Virus, and other weird things. Rebecca Chambers doesn't play too big of a role in this game, but in the prequel, "Resident Evil 0" for the Gamecube, she takes center stage. The series has spawned many sequels. In fact, "Resident Evil 4" was known as one of the best games of 2005.
In "Resident Evil", Chris is often known as a more difficult character to play as because he can carry less items. Jill can carry six while Chris can only carry four. Plus, each one starts with and finds diferent items throughout the game.

Well, finally it's over. We at the "Funtrivia Regulars" group have finally gotten through the many genres of video games that have been given to us. Hope you had fun! :)

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