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03 November 2021, 00:30 | #1102 |
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October Quiz - Answers & Score Just like the great glory of Atari, this round is now over. Once again I am happy about the almost 100 players, even though the games really were not easy. Are you ready for the results? Ah wait, to the bonus question: 58% of you have never owned Atari hardware, 41% of you have... and it paid off, the latter scored 5 points more on average (11 vs 16). The scores are at the end, now first the names of the games as text, then the pictures, then the high score table. 1) Jr Pac-Man An update/successor to the best-selling Atari 2600 game of all time. All but three players recognised the Pac Man series. Answer rate: 97% Other suggestions: - 2) Tempest 2000 A colourful 90s update of the simple original for the Atari Jaguar (only years later on other systems). Answer rate: 77% Other suggestions: - 3) Alien vs Predator I always thought the idea of being able to play all three parties (Aliens, Predators & Marines) was pretty cool. Answer rate: 85% Other suggestions: Gloom 4) Battlezone 2000 A version of the classic tank game for the Atari Lynx. Answer rate: 77% Other suggestions: Grebz, Battle Tanks 5) Asteroids A port of the arcade classic for Atari 8 bit home computers... I think the colourful asteroids confused many of you. Answer rate: 69% Other suggestions: Wizball, Star Wars, Space Invaders, Mad Planets, Defender. 6) Centipede Recharged The new Atari VCS was released this year and offers the original Centipede as well as this remake - not for epileptics. Answer rate: 70% Other suggestions: Geometry Wars, Mushrooms in Space, Space Invaders, Spider Fighter. 7) Combat A launch title of the Atari 2600. No, not "Tank", that's an arcade game where the tanks look different. Answer rate: 72% Other suggestions: 4x Tank(s), Adventure, Battle City, Indy 500. 8.) Qix No, not "Missile Command", that's number 15! This is "Qix", the abstract action game in which you... yes, how do you actually describe it?? Anyway, here you can see the version for the Atari Lynx. Answer rate: 60% Other suggestions: 11x Missile Command 9) Yar's Revenge Answer rate: 55% Other suggestions: Galaxian, Space Tunnel, Guitar Hero 10) Gauntlet 3rd encounter A Gauntlet spin-off for the Lynx handheld. Answer rate: 53% Other suggestions: Zombies Ate My Neighbor, Evil dead, Chips Challenge. 11) Demon Attack Another super hit for the Atari 2600. Answer rate: 53% Other suggestions: 6x Space Invaders, 5x Phoenix, Crackpot 12) Iron Soldier 3D polygon mecha action on the Jaguar. Answer rate: 61% Other suggestions: 7x Transformers 13) Alley Cat Mini-games revolving around a street cat, one of my very first encounters with computer games. Solving rate: 45% Other suggestions: Custer's Revenge, Cat Trax, ET, Mouse Trap, Raiders of the Lost Ark. 14) Dungeon Master The front door of this classic multiplatform dungeon crawler. Answer rate: 42% Other suggestions: Transformers, Sinistar, Pitfall Mayan Adventure, Bloodwych. 15) Missile Command Recharged Answer rate: 63% Other suggestions: Space War, Gravitar, Geometry Wars, Asteroids. 16) Oids A mixture of Gravitar and Choplifter, Oids was an exclusive game for the Atari ST (later also for the Mac). Answer rate: 34% Other suggestions: 5x Defender, Galaga, Thrust, Lunar Lander, Gravitar, Choplifter, Gravity Force. 17) Night Driver Answer rate: 39% Other suggestions: 4x Fatal Run, Road Race, Space Invaders, Moon Patrol, Lotus Racing, Great American Road Race, Enduro, Back to the Future. 18.) Hunter. A true open world sandbox game, with lots of usable weapons+vehicles and completely in 3D.... from the year 1991! Answer rate: 41% Other suggestions: Highlander, Midwinter 19) Midnight Mutants All sorts of undead creatures are out to get you in this Atari 7800 action game. Solving rate: 35% Other suggestions: ET, Friday the 13th, Graveyard, Horror Zombies from the Crypt, King of Grabs, Living Dead, Zombi, Zombies ate my neighbour. 20) Skull Diggery An exclusive title for the Atari ST, only a scant third guessed it correctly. Answer rate: 32% Other suggestions: Boulder Dash, Monster Bash, Halloween. 21) Ultra Vortek A brawling game with creative characters but modest scores, exclusive to the Jaguar. Answer rate: 46% Other suggestions: Primal Rage, Vicious Circle, Rise of the Robots, Killer Instinct, Kasumi Ninja. 22) Substation A rare find... an fps for the Atari ST! Answer rate: 30% Other suggestions: Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, The Corporation, Robocop, Galactica, ET, Battle Star Galactica, Alien Breed 3D. 23) Battlesphere Space battles on the Jaguar. Answer rate: 19% Other suggestions: Star Raiders, Space War 2000, Lunar Lander, Hover Strike, ET, Captain Blood, Aliens. 24) Alien Brigade The most difficult entry of this round! A mean screen fragment from a rail shooter for the Atari 7800... can be played through in under 20 minutes, by the way (I guess this is due to the genre). Answer rate: 11% Other suggestions: Bruce Lee, Rambo, Missing in Action, ET, Bad Dudes. 25) White Men can't jump Speaking of mean clips... this one was purposefully chosen to mislead you, I don't understand how almost 20 of you figured it out anyway. Congrats! :O Answer rate: 19% Other suggestions: 7x Sim City, 4x Rollercoaster Tycoon, 4x Citytopia, Fast Food Tycoon, Zany Golf, Township, Theme Park, Paper Boy, Lunar Battle Here is the quiz picture again, followed by the solution: Solution: Direct link: https://i.imgur.com/lQp2ZFJ.png HIGH SCORE TABLE 01 - 25 points - hcg - windfish 01 - 25 points - pop - PUH 01 - 25 points - rta - AuraPaladinne 01 - 25 points - mnc - Mangamaniac2171 01 - 25 points - hcg - excelsior 01 - 25 points - rta - Marek 01 - 25 Points - ntl - lifer 08 - 24 points - eab - Havie 09 - 24 points - spz - The_BACH 10 - 24 points - mnc - Gerhard S. 11 - 24 points - mmx - fedprod 12 - 24 points - mmx - Knuckles 13 - 23 points - gsg - TheLastToKnow 14 - 23 points - mnc - Dream-Team 15 - 22 points - rta - Roarer 16 - 22 points - eab - darkwave 17 - 22 points - lgs - AirBaeron 18 - 22 points - gsg - partykiller 19 - 22 points - rta - residentgrigo 20 - 21 points - rta - EmmaDansTonU 21 - 21 points - eab - Nobby_UK 22 - 20 points - mtc - Valdien 23 - 19 points - rtc - Antiriad2097 24 - 19 points - m!g - lmarvin 25 - 19 points - gav - Wizdom 26 - 19 points - mtc - Wibblewozzer 27 - 19 points - mtc - Parsnip 28 - 18 points - sh2 - Vino 29 - 18 points - eab - Biscuit 30 - 18 points - rta - malus 31 - 18 points - hcg - teroknor 32 - 17 points - spz - Striderblade 33 - 17 points - ntl - GrailUK 34 - 17 points - ata - JeremiahJT 35 - 16 points - hcg - dsparil 36 - 16 points - ata - BydoEmpire 37 - 16 points - ftg - Lurker 38 - 16 points - hcg - Alexmate 39 - 15 points - gpo - Bully 40 - 15 points - rta - EarthPainting 41 - 15 points - m!g - geohound 42 - 15 points - rta - Cucurbitacée 43 - 15 points - can - M.Rick75 44 - 15 points - can - Dark Kariya 45 - 14 points - rta - Illusionary 46 - 14 points - ata - jgkspsx 47 - 13 points - gpo - rave 48 - 13 points - gms - kopyright 49 - 13 points - rtc - elginmcqueen 50 - 12 points - nto - curlybird 51 - 12 points - pop - Guzzi 52 - 12 points - sh2 - Gatar 53 - 11 points - mnc - Dolphin 54 - 11 points - pop - a gentle breeze 55 - 10 points - eab - Mailman 56 - 10 points - rpg - Zion 57 - 10 points - ftg - Cappy 58 - 10 points - rpg - D4rkD 59 - 10 points - mnc - elementalMaster 60 - 10 points - gsg - Drapondur 61 - 10 points - m!g - Red XIII 62 - 10 points - mnc - Yeboah17 63 - 09 points - pop - Arne 64 - 08 points - mmx - Dnamei 65 - 08 points - sh2 - godzella 66 - 07 points - mtc - Mutant Strawberry 67 - 07 points - pop - Sascha 68 - 07 points - gpo - Eddie 69 - 06 points - ntl - Dogorilla 70 - 06 points - mnc - HomiSite 71 - 06 points - lgs - Numfuddle 72 - 06 points - mmx - LittleChoco 73 - 06 points - mtc - FunnyJay 74 - 06 points - hcg - snake 75 - 06 points - mmx - Klunky 76 - 06 points - gpo - Konsolomio 77 - 06 points - gpo - Navarone 78 - 06 points - pop - Don Como 79 - 06 points - lgs - Mister_L 80 - 05 points - mmx - Lynx 81 - 05 points - mtc - QFNS 82 - 05 points - rtc - stayAwhile 83 - 04 points - sh2 - BVBFabi09 84 - 04 points - nto - 4C8en 85 - 04 points - mnc - Mitschel 86 - 03 points - pop - Daiyama 87 - 03 points - nto - Ande 88 - 03 points - m!g - Kong 89 - 03 points - rta - Blufunk 90 - 02 points - gms - hellermarie 91 - 02 points - sh2 - FoxSpitzer 92 - 02 points - gms - hellifanboy 93 - 01 points - lgs - kristheb 94 - 01 points - mmx - Shades 95 - 01 points - 4py - Scorplian 96 - 01 points - rta - luke88 97 - 01 points - nto - Eims 98 - 01 points - gav - Yoshi 4py - 4players ata - Atari Age can - PC Canard eab - English Amiga Board ftg - fontgeek gav - Gaming Village gms - Gamestar gpo - Gamepro gsg - Gamersglobal hcg - hardcore gaming 101 lgs - last game standing m!g - Man!iac mmx - Multimediaxis mnc - old maniac mtc - Metacouncil ntl - NintendoLife nto - NTower pop - Powerplay rpg - RPG Maker rta - ResetEra rtc - RetroCanteen sh2 - Shock² spz - Spazio PC Participants from here are in bold, in case of equal scores weighted points decided (less frequently guessed titles give more), if all else fails the date of the first entry. Well then, an award ceremony: Congratulations to PUH, windfisch, AuraPaladinne, Mangamaniac, excelsior, Marek and lifer... you all got FULL POINTS and won this round! Also congrats to Havie, The_BACH and Gerhard S, together you are the TOP 10. LOCAL HIGH SCORE: 1 - 24 points - Havie 2 - 22 points - darkwave 3 - 21 points - Nobby_UK 4 - 18 points - Biscuit 5 - 10 points - Mailman Congratulations to Havie for the local lead. Thanks to everyone for playing and see you next time, for the last quiz of the year! |
03 November 2021, 11:22 | #1103 |
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Wow, so #17 was Night Driver. I just couldn't match it from screenshots. That's the trouble with Atari 2600 stuff, at first I thought it was a space ship but then I squinted a little more and was like "Wait... is that a car? Those four pixels might be headlights..."
Well, looks like the 16 I had would have been correct at least... I had big trouble finding Midnight Mutants because I couldn't really figure out what system it would be for and I was searching for zombies, because... well those are zombies. But through sheer luck I ran across a screenshot of the game while searching for something else. Skull Diggery was also properly obscure, sheesh. I ended up searching for "atari boulderdash horror" or something and I found a forum post of a person asking for the name of this exact game and someone linked to a youtube video... hallelujah. Iron Soldier, also one that eluded me for a long time. I thought it was some kind of Transformers game. I search high and low for "atari robots game" and "atari transformers game" and retro variants of those searches but zilch nada bupkiss. Again one I stumbled on by accident searching for another game. Or perhaps when I was going through the list of games on wikipedia per Atari system... Tempest 2000... I thought it was a Star Wars game because boy Atari had a lot of wireframe Star Wars games. I search every combination of "atari wireframe game" too but nothing popped out. But in the end I thought: "... this is an Atari list, Tempest MUST be in there". And yup... it was #2. It should have been so easy. Demon Attack! I did not actually own this game. I had a little game called "wall defender" and it has like a mini-boss crab creature which looks close to the one in the screenshot Alley Cat... I just couldn't make out what I was looking at in the screenshot I did think it was a cat, but the legs of the furniture I thought were something like (blue) smoke coming from pipes on a roof or something |
03 November 2021, 15:47 | #1104 |
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Well Done Everyone
Especially Havie & darkwave |
04 November 2021, 18:51 | #1105 |
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Cheers Nobby!
Well done to all - some good scores. And as always, thanks to Mr H. |
07 November 2021, 13:48 | #1106 |
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November Quiz - Metroidvania So, here is the last quiz of the year! A few months ago I had you vote on which themes you would like, and Metroidvania had made second place. So why not have a round about this popular genre with somewhat "fuzzy edges", because where does a souls-like start, and which title is more of an action adventure? I hope you enjoy this one, even if some genre classics are not included because they were already in another quiz. Next year there will also be another Make-a-Wish quiz, so please enter your wishes in the bonus question! Deadline is Tuesday 30 November, enter via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/. Here comes the last quiz of 2021, have fun: Direct link: https://i.imgur.com/pIZpeA9.png |
07 November 2021, 18:59 | #1107 |
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Absolutely clueless...never played one in my life! Wasn't me that voted for a Metrovania game -arghhhh!!!
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07 November 2021, 19:02 | #1108 |
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I take it back - I think I have played no. 19!
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08 November 2021, 01:10 | #1109 |
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I have played quite some... and I don't recognise most of these anyway :/ I think I know 4 of them...
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08 November 2021, 16:43 | #1110 |
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I can see a few of them on Steam
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09 November 2021, 01:21 | #1111 |
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Goodie goodie goodie, this was my top choice.
Not because I'm knowledgable but I want more games for my wishlist, as it's a genre I started exploring more in recent years. No idea what most of them are. |
09 November 2021, 17:54 | #1112 |
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I'm at 8 now... jebus there are a lot of metroidvania games. Although as soon as a game moves in multiple directions it is automatically stamped as a metroidvania game, it's not exactly a precise category of game.
#8 is probably the best example of how random this genre is |
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Wow! These are just memories of my youth. I remember going out with friends and playing these games for long evenings. My son is growing up, and I am sad to see that today's children are entirely different from us. He doesn't like going out with friends, and he doesn't enjoy playing computer. But I don't mind spending the evening at my computer. I often can't figure out which fable is the best, and that's why I play comp in my free time. ... I feel sorry for today's children. They are deprived of amazing adventures and memories that remain for a lifetime.
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09 November 2021, 21:47 | #1114 |
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Welcome - hope you are going to enter!
After a bit of an effort, have now got 20 but only know 3 and only played 1! Whatever happened to the Amiga round??? |
10 November 2021, 16:24 | #1115 |
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19
2 maybe's |
11 November 2021, 06:04 | #1116 |
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I pass. Not my cup of tea.
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11 November 2021, 09:05 | #1117 |
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Just Google it
or go through Steams MetroidVania section your bound to get 5-6 |
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I think it happened already.... in February 2015!
forum post picture link One of my first quiz rounds, in a german puzzle thread with others posting theirs as well. I don't like looking at it, it doesn't follow the quiz creation rules I have set since then. Maybe we can have a new one next year...? |
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November Quiz - Clues #1
Well, found the double jump yet? Unlocked the grappling hook, discovered the Ice Beam behind the waterfall or finally got the Air Dash in your repertoire? The first twenty players have already jumped into the Metroidvania round, and I'd like to motivate the rest of you with this first batch of hints as well. Hints #1: 1) Pictures 1 to 12 show the/one protagonist of the game. 2) Title 5 is a recent game with a distinctive "black hole head" main character. Released this August for PC, console ports to follow. 3) Number 3 is this year's sequel to a successful Metroidvania indie game. 4) Game 6 is also a sequel, kickstarter-funded and available on all major systems since 2020. Deadline is Tuesday the 30th of November, enter via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/ Here's the quiz again, good luck: https://i.imgur.com/pIZpeA9.png Last edited by Mr_Horizon; 12 November 2021 at 14:22. |
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I'm not entirely sure, but does hint #3 perhaps contain a typo in the game number? I would point out which game I think you meant but that'd be a spoiler if I'm wrong
(note: yes there was and it has been corrected) Last edited by gimbal; 15 November 2021 at 14:55. Reason: add the footnote |
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