Monthly Retro Gaming Quiz

[darkwave]

I have only 2 of the Amiga ones. I'm letting the board down! Surprisingly, I seem to be having trouble with the older titles in this round.

[Nobby_UK]

Originally Posted by darkwave

I have only 2 of the Amiga ones. I'm letting the board down! Surprisingly, I seem to be having trouble with the older titles in this round.

#17 and the last 2 especially

[Nobby_UK]

Submitted Answers...

[Mr_Horizon]

August Quiz - Clues #1

So, how can I help you today? Fresh potions? New Characters? Shiny weapon systems? So far 35 people are part of this shopping tour, and three from here.

I want to give you a few clues, as especially in the second half of this round things get more difficult, and not every title has been found out yet:

1) The games of the fourth row are all from the same genre.
2) The friendly gentleman in picture 13 is trading with sailing ships.
3) The merchant in a suit (game 11) is selling you a car.
4) That fat sheep is selling you items to help you climb better.

Deadline is Monday the 31st August, participate via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/

Here is the quiz again, good luck!

direct link: https://i.imgur.com/xhKYiKA.png

[Mr_Horizon]

August Quiz - Clues #2

"Dear customers, thank you for your visit today. Please take note that this store will close in one week!" So then... time to take another guess or two, with the final set of clues.
The item shop is about half full with 45 people, and three of them are from this forum.

So far all scores are between 2 and 23 points - here are the last clues:

1) Number 1 shows a well-known 3rd person action game by Capcom.
2) Game 20 was released twice, once in 2016 and once in 2020 (with a new name).
3) On picture 17 we see the ugly Spectrum version of a multiplatform Shmup from the late 80s.
4) Title 9 is a Playstation & PC game with lots of wild robots.


Deadline is Monday the 31st August, participate via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/

Here is the quiz again, good luck!
https://i.imgur.com/xhKYiKA.png

[Nobby_UK]

Finally got #16

[Mr_Horizon]

...last weekend everyone! Quiz ends on Monday, and so far there's four users from this forum.

@Nobby_uk: I sure hope so!

[darkwave]

I've entered.

I know I'm going to be frustrated by the ones I couldn't get this month. I'm not sure what's worse; having absolutely no clue what the answer is, or recognising it but not being able to place it?

[Mr_Horizon]

Originally Posted by darkwave

I've entered.

I know I'm going to be frustrated by the ones I couldn't get this month. I'm not sure what's worse; having absolutely no clue what the answer is, or recognising it but not being able to place it?

I think it'll be worst not to recognise two Amiga games when you're on an Amiga board.

But I'm being mean - you have a pretty good score already, let's see if you have more than Nobby_UK!

[darkwave]

Originally Posted by Mr_Horizon

I think it'll be worst not to recognise two Amiga games when you're on an Amiga board.

The shame is real.

[Havie]

Uploaded answers - not my best effort sadly! Still a few days to think and search...

Think I have all the Amiga ones though

[Mr_Horizon]

August Quiz - Answers & Score

Thank you for visiting our shop! Almost a hundred people joined in (nice!), but now the store is closed and this round over.
From "nothing right" to "full score" every point combination can be found. Two people managed to find out every single title - one right on the first try, the other by updating in the last moment. Who are these two? You will have to scroll down!

The results are visible at the end of this post, we start with the names of the games as text, then the answer image and finally the High Score Table.


1) Resident Evil 4
answer rate: 88%
other suggestions: Devil May Cry

2) Majoras Mask 3D
Some more polygons than on the N64, this picture is from the remake for the Nintendo 3DS.
answer rate: 90%
other suggestions: -

3) Secret of Monkey Island
answer rate: 91%
other suggestions: -

4) Mass Effect 3
answer rate: 79%
other suggestions: -

5) Catherine
answer rate: 74%
other suggestions: Ico, Zelda Twilight Princess

6) Spyro 2
answer rate: 55%
other suggestions: Banjo Kazooie, Grim Fandango, Pandemonium

7) NieR:Automata
answer rate: 76%
other suggestions: Fallout

8.) Spelunky HD
answer rate: 78%
other suggestions: Braid, Terraria, Wild 9

9) Horizon Zero Dawn
answer rate: 71%
other suggestions: Armored Core, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Binary Domain, Detroit Become Human, the surge

10) Splatoon 2
answer rate: 47%
other suggestions: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Mini Ninja, Minions, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Pikmin, Psychonauts

11) Rock n Roll Racing
answer rate: 45%
other suggestions: Battletoads, die total verrückte Rally

12) God of War
answer rate: 69%
other suggestions: Assassins Creed Odyssee

13) Pirates!
answer rate: 46%
other suggestions: Eye of the Beholder, Might and Magic, Patrizier, port royale, 1869, Uncharted Waters

14) Destiny 2
answer rate: 55%
other suggestions: Lost Planet, Resident Evil 5, Warframe

15) Wonderboy in Monsterland
answer rate: 36%
other suggestions: -

16) X-Out
answer rate: 26%
other suggestions: -

17) Forgotten Worlds
answer rate: 31%
other suggestions: Dragon Quest, gunstar, Nemesis, Salamander, Trantor

18.) Xenon 2
This game already showed up in the Frankenstein Quiz two months ago... but it was only then that I discovered that great 80s sales alien!
answer rate: 45%
other suggestions: R-Type, Star Control 2, Zarlor Mercenary

19) Lords of Thunder
answer rate: 30%
other suggestions: Exile Wicked Phenomenon, Phantasy Star, Ultima, Ys

20) 1993 Shenandoah
In the year 1993 a swedish team developed a horizontal scrolling Shoot'em'up for the Amiga, which didn't get a release. However, in 2016 the game got rediscovered and published as "1993 Space Machine" for PC, followed by a Switch release in 2020 as "1993 Shenandoah". Congrats to the SEVEN players who managed to solve this one!
answer rate: 7%
other suggestions: Chaos Engine, Crush, Dan Malone, Doom, Fallout, Shadowrun, Speedball, Jamestown

21) Sea of Thieves
answer rate: 41%
other suggestions: Civilization, Dishonored, Fable, Final Fantasy,Fortnite, Outer Worlds

22) Ishar 2
answer rate: 23%
other suggestions: Das Schwarze Auge, Eric the Unready, Link: The Faces of Evil

23) Merchant
answer rate: 38%
other suggestions: Betrayal at Krondor, discworld, Legend of Kyrandia

24) Crawl
answer rate: 11%
other suggestions: Enter the Gungeon, King's Quest 5, Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator, Moonlighter, Hyper Light Drifter

25) Kid Icarus
answer rate: 17%
other suggestions: Kaiser, Lords of Midnight, The Legend Of Zelda, Wizardry


Here is the quiz image again, followed by the answer image:


Answers:

direct link: https://i.imgur.com/t7a6Ua1.png


HIGH SCORE

01 - 25 points - hcg - Excelsior
01 - 25 points - rpg - J.R.
03 - 24 points - ntl - lifer
04 - 24 points - mnc - Gerhard S.
05 - 24 points - spz - Strider
06 - 24 points - spz - The_BACH
07 - 23 points - dgo - fl0rian
08 - 23 points - rta - Earthpainting
09 - 23 points - m!g - Kong
10 - 22 points - mmx - Knuckles

11 - 22 points - rta - residentgrigo
12 - 22 points - rta - Illusionary
13 - 22 points - gav - Wizdom
14 - 22 points - pcx - Splunge
15 - 22 points - mnc - Dreamteam
16 - 22 points - rpg - Calastellio
17 - 22 points - rta - Lafazar
18 - 21 points - pop - A Gentle Breeze
19 - 21 points - eab - Nobby_UK
20 - 21 points - spz - Neural
21 - 20 points - m!g - Thrawn
22 - 20 points - eab - darkwave
23 - 19 points - eab - Havie
24 - 19 points - eab - Biscuit
25 - 19 points - mtc - Wibblewozzer
26 - 18 points - mmx - fedprod
27 - 17 points - can - Eiffel-AD
28 - 17 points - gav - Vecrix
29 - 16 points - gsg - partykiller
30 - 15 points - mmx - TheSnesFreak
31 - 15 points - rta - aLaxLuthor
32 - 14 points - hcg - windfisch
33 - 14 points - mnc - elementalMaster
34 - 14 points - gms - kopyright
35 - 14 points - rta - jett
36 - 14 points - mtc - MegaApple
37 - 14 points - m!g - geohound
38 - 13 points - eab - Belgarath
39 - 13 points - rtc - Antiriad2097
40 - 13 points - mnc - Lukulus
41 - 13 points - mtc - Parsnip
42 - 13 points - gms - hellermarie
43 - 12 points - ntl - JoakimZ
44 - 12 points - pop - Don Como
45 - 12 points - gpo - Maryokutai
46 - 12 points - 4py - Crimson Idol
47 - 12 points - 4py - Scorplian
48 - 12 points - mtc - mssq
49 - 12 points - rta - FaffEra
50 - 11 points - rpg - Yokan
51 - 11 points - 4py - Khorneblume
52 - 11 points - rta - Zolbrod
53 - 11 points - mnc - Mangamaniac71
54 - 11 points - gpo - Echelon
55 - 11 points - can - Kulfy
56 - 11 points - 4py - DancingDan
57 - 10 points - m!g - zweiblooom
58 - 10 points - can - Bouyi
59 - 10 points - mmx - LittleChoco
60 - 10 points - m!g - Rudi Ratlos
61 - 10 points - rta - Blufunk
62 - 10 points - lgs - Frosch
63 - 10 points - ntl - Blooper987
64 - 10 points - gpo - rave
65 - 10 points - mtc - QFNS
66 - 10 points - m!g - Red XIII
67 - 10 points - rta - Emergency & I
68 - 09 points - rpg - D4rkD
69 - 09 points - mmx - Shades
70 - 09 points - mnc - Sonic2d
71 - 09 points - rta - PsionBolt
72 - 09 points - can - Franky Mikey
73 - 09 points - m!g - SonicFanNerd
74 - 08 points - pop - Sascha
75 - 08 points - mnc - HomiSite
76 - 08 points - mnc - Mitschel
77 - 08 points - gpo - Klingsor-
78 - 07 points - hcg - Snake
79 - 07 points - ntl - Dogorilla
80 - 07 points - hcg - teroknor
81 - 07 points - sh2 - retro74
82 - 07 points - lgs - Darkcloud
83 - 07 points - vgz - Walti
84 - 07 points - rta - Embrodak
85 - 07 points - 4py - schockbock
86 - 07 points - gms - hellifanboy
87 - 06 points - rtc - Elgin_mcqueen
88 - 05 points - gav - Yoshi
89 - 04 points - pcx - Pascal Parvex
90 - 04 points - sh2 - godzella
91 - 04 points - rta - malus
92 - 03 points - eab - mailman
93 - 03 points - 4py - Akabei
94 - 03 points - mmx - Loxagon
95 - 03 points - rta - T
96 - 02 points - pop - PUH
97 - 01 points - pop - Daiyama
98 - 00 points - ntl - BabyYoshi12

4py = 4Players Forum
can = Canard PC
dgo = dialogoption
eab = English Amiga Board
gpo = Gamepro Forum
gsg = Gamers Global
gms = Gamestar Forum
guf = Gaming Universe Forum
hcg = hardcore gaming 101
lgs = last game standing
m!g = M!Games Forum
mtc = Metacouncil Forum
mmx = Multimediaxis Forum
mnc = altes maniac Forum
ntl = NintendoLife Forum
pcx = PCX Forum
pop = PowerPlay Forum
rta = ResetEra Forum
rtc = Retro Canteen Forum
rpg = RPG Maker MV Forum
sh2 = Shock² Forum
spz = Spazio PC
vgz = Videogameszone Forum


Here's a winners ceremony! Congratulations to Excelsior, J.R., lifer, Gerhard S and the italian Strider - you are the Top 5 and won this round!

Also Kudos to The_BACH, fl0rian, Earthpainting, Kong and Knuckles - together you form the Top 10.


local high score:

1 - 21 points - Nobby_UK
2 - 20 points - darkwave
3 - 19 points - Havie
4 - 19 points - Biscuit
5 - 13 points - Belgarath
6 - 03 points - mailman


Congrats to Nobby_UK for the local lead.

Distance between Havie and Biscuit is... just 0.074 points?

Thank you all for joining in and see you next time!

[gimbal]

#22 can also be Ishar 3 if I remember correctly, quite some assets were reused

Man, I really only played 7 of the games on the list. Bonus points for #23 for being from a game literally called "Merchant". Now that's meta.

[Havie]

Distance between Havie and Biscuit is... just 0.074 points?

Ok - I'll bite; how exactly does the scoring work? I just thought you liked me better than Biscuit!

Congrats to Nobby and Darkwave for their 20+ scores...

I should have got X-out...and now hide my head in shame

[Biscuit]

I was wondering too. I've noticed tied places aren't alphabetical. Anyhow, just 0.074 difference sounds very exciting!

Really liked this round. 20 and 25 drove me crazy but I couldn't work them out.

[Havie]

I recognised and had played 20 but had no idea what it was! 25 was way outside of my gameplay experience.

[darkwave]

Congrats on another winning round Nobby!

Not too frustrated with the ones I missed in the end. I probably should have played X-Out by now, it looks great, especially for 1990. Shame on me for that! Wonderboy in Monsterland would have been Master System era on my personal gaming timeline and I just couldn't place it.

I think I only ever played Rock n Roll Racing way back in the day when I swapped my Megadrive for a friend's SNES for a while. I knew I'd seen that rat before!

Thanks again Mr Horizon!

[Nobby_UK]

Originally Posted by Biscuit

I was wondering too. I've noticed tied places aren't alphabetical. Anyhow, just 0.074 difference sounds very exciting!

Really liked this round. 20 and 25 drove me crazy but I couldn't work them out.

He mentioned in the past --- it is time based


So get your answers in quick


An unreleased Amiga Game --- now that was wicked

[Biscuit]

Originally Posted by Nobby_UK

So get your answers in quick

I'd better concentrate on getting them all right then, coz I always leave it really late.

Well done for coming tops.

[Havie]

I thought I left it late but you must have been just a tiny bit later...