Monthly Retro Gaming Quiz

[Nobby_UK]

6 at first glance
21-22 after research

[Nobby_UK]

Just found
#16
and
#24

[Mr_Horizon]

November Quiz - Clues #1

The fists and kicks and sparks are flying - Thirty people are already eagerly dishing out in this end-of-the-year skirmish! In the November round, many of the most famous this genre has to offer are already out in the first row, exclusively world-famous series with considerably more than a handful of games, all of them million sellers.
So let's get into the ring, round 2: After all, the month is already more than half over...

Here come the first clues:

1) Number 4 and number 5 are famous fighting games from Namco's portfolio.
2) In game #7 only animals fight, in #8 and #10 only women fight - all in 2D.
3) #12 is a 90s title where polygonal robots compete (on PC & Playstations).
4) In #15 you see the N64 entry of yet another well-known fighting series.

Deadline is Wednesday the 30th November, enter via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/.

Here's the quiz again - round 2, fight: https://i.imgur.com/UooGCWA.png

[gimbal]

Okay because of hint 4 I now know what the game is, but ... I still don't see a game in that blurry abstract amalgamation of a screenshot If you tell me that's Mario Kart, I would believe you.

[Nobby_UK]

Might as well bang in my 24 ?

[Mr_Horizon]

Originally Posted by gimbal

Okay because of hint 4 I now know what the game is, but ... I still don't see a game in that blurry abstract amalgamation of a screenshot If you tell me that's Mario Kart, I would believe you.

Yea that's on me... I have never played the series, but this "abstract amalgamation" is something I will always recognise because I saw it on printed screenshots in magazines back then... but that might very well have only been me, it's just a background object.
Answer rate is at 38% though, up from 25% before the hint. So I'm not completely alone!

[Mr_Horizon]

November Quiz - Clues #2

Attention, the last days are dawning.... next Wednesday, the final round of 2022 will end! Just about fifty people are playing, including two from here. Join now, don't let your fellow forum users handle this one alone!

So then, once again hints - but after that you'll have to manage without my help:

1) Just ten games in this quiz use 3D graphics for the player characters.
2) In game 14, the characters can only fight with their legs, not their arms.
3) Five games from the 80s, nine from the 90s, five again from the 2000s.... plus three each from the 10s and 20s.
4) In this round you see SIX games that were released for the C64. All but one are in the bottom two rows.

Deadline is Wednesday the 30th of November, enter via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/.

Here's the quiz again - round 3, final: https://i.imgur.com/UooGCWA.png

[Havie]

I'm in - 22?

[Havie]

Just found one more! Two to go...

[Nobby_UK]

Surely one of them is not actually out yet ?

[Havie]

We did have Dread in the 3d shooters so this is possible?

[Mr_Horizon]

November Quiz - round ends soon!

Woah, what a spectacle: almost eighty people are competing in this, it's a full on mass brawl! Also three players from here. But watch out: on Wednesday night the fight is over, so all the remaining observers don't have much time left. Come on people, get in the ring?

@Nobby & Havie: It's not impossible! You will know by the end of the week.

By the way, about #6... have you ever noticed that the same fighter appears as the protagonist in several fighting games on this platform? First in the original, then with a tan, then with a headband... that's why I'm friendly when it comes to the answers, but I won't just wave through every lowres Karate dude in a white bathrobe either!

See for yourself:

(these are all the answers that came in for #6)

But don't wait any longer, because the deadline is already tomorrow, Wednesday the 30th of November.
Participation as usual via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/.

Just one last time, the quiz:
https://i.imgur.com/UooGCWA.png

[Havie]

Managed to find one more (by accident I might add).

[Havie]

Arghhhhh - can't get 23 and can't even work out what system???

[Mr_Horizon]

Originally Posted by Havie

Arghhhhh - can't get 23 and can't even work out what system???

#23 was by far the hardest entry, under 10% answer rate! So don't feel too bad.

[Havie]

Originally Posted by Mr_Horizon

#23 was by far the hardest entry, under 10% answer rate! So don't feel too bad.

Thanks - just looks like I should know it!

[gimbal]

I'm be curious what most of these titles are. Post results. Post results. Post results.

I didn't participate in this one, I only pick the ones that are near and dear to me and brawlers just ain't my thing except for Mortal Kombat

[Havie]

Not wishing to be pedantic (but am being) these are one on one fighters not brawlers.

[gimbal]

That's like saying "Not to be pedantic but a chicken is a bird, not an animal" :/

[Mr_Horizon]

November Quiz - Answers & Score

K.O. - you win! 126 people walk in, seven come back out: those players smashed the competition and got every single game right. You guys are crazy. The true "king maker" of this round was #23, only eight people found it.

Now let's start with the answers... first as text, then as images and finally the high score.

1) Virtua Fighter 2
We start with an arcade game by Sega...
Answer rate: 87%
Other suggestions: 4x Tekken, Battle Arena Toshinden, Bloody Roar, Soul Calibur

2) Mortal Kombat 2
This is the SNES version.
Answer rate: 95%
Other suggestions: Blood Warrior

3) Dead or Alive 3
Answer rate: 90%
Other suggestions: Tekken 7

4) Tekken
The first Tekken on Playstation.
Answer rate: 70%
Other suggestions: Virtua Fighter, King of Fighters, Kasumi Ninja, Final Fight, Fighters Megamix, Die Hard

5) Soul Calibur 3
Tira first appeared in the third game (Playstation 2).
Answer rate: 85%
Other suggestions: Guilty Gear

6) International Karate (IK+)
Also known as "chop'n'drop". Did you get it right? https://i.imgur.com/sgF3x4X.png
Answer rate: 78%
Other suggestions: 7x Karate Champ, Karate Champion, Street Fighter, Karateka, Black Panther, Boxing, Double Dragon, The good Samaritan

7) Brutal: Paws of Fury
Answer rate: 61%
Other suggestions: Beast Clash Fighters, Bugs Bunny's Royal Rumble, Fight'n Rage, Helicopter Bunny Legs, Jazz Jackrabbit, Kong Fu Hase, Toon Fighter

8.) Skullgirls
Answer rate: 66%
Other suggestions: Blaz Blue, Dark Stalkers, Gloam Collective’s Bravery Network Online, Guilty Gear, Indivisible

9) Garou: Mark of the Wolves
King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Garou... a wild mix of answers, points for all!
Answer rate: 63%
Other suggestions: 6x Street Fighter (alle Varianten), Rival Schools, Guilty Gear, Marvel vs Capcom, Dragon Ball Fighter Z, BlazBlue

10) Arcana Heart
Answer rate: 45%
Other suggestions: 6x Skull Girls, River City Girls, Touhou, Guilty Gear, Blaz Blue, Koihime Enbu, Nitroplus Blasterz

11) Body Blows
Answer rate: 40%
Other suggestions: 9x Fatal Fury, 4x Streets of Rage, King of Fighters, Final Fight, Art of Fighting, Chambers of Shaolin, Fightin Spirit, Pokemon Colloseum, Auto Mechanic Fight

12) Zero Divide
Answer rate: 37%
Other suggestions: 5x Rise of the Robots, 5x Robo Pit, Robots Arena, roboduck, Tobal No 1, One must fall

13) Ehrgeiz
No, not Tekken! I guess the studded glove made you take a wrong turn.
Answer rate: 34%
Other suggestions: 18x Tekken, 3x Bloody Roar, Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter, Dead or Alive, Battle Arena Toshinden, Destrega, Fighting Force, Kensei: Sacred Fist, Tobal No1

14) Divekick
Answer rate: 48%
Other suggestions: Def Jam Fight for New York, Guitar Shoe Hero Fighter Remix, Kick Master, Parappa the Rapper, Schuh AG, sega rally

15) Killer Instinct Gold
Interesting: 3D backgrounds, 2D characters.
Answer rate: 52%
Other suggestions: ClayFighter, Persona 4 Arena, Rise of Robots, Super Smash Bros, Thrill Kill, Bloody Roar 2

16) Chambers of Shaolin
Answer rate: 34%
Other suggestions: Yie Air Kung Fu, Kung Fu, Karate Time in the Void, Black Belt

17) Fight of Gods
Answer rate: 53%
Other suggestions: Alien Vs Predator, Bible Warriors, Cardinal Sin, Feel the Wrath of Jesus, monkeys of shaolin

18.) Bangkok Knights
Answer rate: 33%
Other suggestions: Barbarian, Caveman Ugh-lympics, Final Blow, Larry

19) Guilty Gear Strive
Answer rate: 37%
Other suggestions: 3x Street Fighter, Tekken, Star Wars, Soul Calibur, Overwatch, My Hero Ones Justice, Injustice, Dragon Ballz Fighterz, Dnf duel, DAEMON X MACHINA

20) Fighting Warrior
Answer rate: 47%
Other suggestions: 4x Fist, Egyptian Fight Club, Barbarian, Gladiator

21) Samurai Shodown V
My favorite answer, by the user MikeBloke: "Me trying to work out answers for this Quiz"
Answer rate: 40%
Other suggestions: 3x Darkstalkers, Street Fighter, Red Earth, Persona 4 Arcadium, Marvel vs. Capcom, Guilty Gear

22) Monstro Giganto
Modern C64 game with an interesting graphics style.
Answer rate: 30%
Other suggestions: Eyeball Fight, Robot Fighters

23) ONE
The most difficult entry! Come and watch this exclusive masterpiece: [ Show youtube player ]
Answer rate: 6%
Other suggestions: 5x Bloody Roar, Sailor Moon, Rumble Roses, Rival Schools, Psychic Force, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, D-Xhird, Dirty Fighter, Dead or Alive, Beachball fighter Zero, Battle Arena Toshinden

24) Street Fighter 1
Quite mean: Bonus level from one of the two C64 ports of the first Street Fighter game.
Answer rate: 17%
Other suggestions: Punch Out, Pixel Chop, kung fu master, Kung Fu, Karate Champ, Exploding fist , Bruce Lee

25) Street Fighter 6
The Charakter Editor of the Street Fighter 6 Beta lets you create some really funny fighters.
Answer rate: 41%
Other suggestions: 5x WWE 2K Battlegrounds, UFC, Tekken, Multiverse, Clay Figher, Tug My Chest Hair


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answer image:

Direktlink: https://i.imgur.com/oJaGd0k.png



HIGH SCORE TABLE

01 - 25 points - spz - The_BACH
01 - 25 points - gav - Scorplian
01 - 25 points - gav - Wizdom
01 - 25 points - mmx - Nayuta
01 - 25 points - spz - Striderblade
01 - 25 points - rta - marek
01 - 25 points - mnc - Gerhard S.
08 - 24 points - hcg - windfisch
09 - 24 points - mnc - Mangamaniac2171
10 - 24 points - eab - Nobby_UK
11 - 24 points - mnc - Ost West Elite
12 - 24 points - eab - Havie
13 - 24 points - smu - Herr Schatten
14 - 24 points - rpg - Calastellio
15 - 24 points - gsg - TheLastToKnow
16 - 24 points - ntl - lifer
17 - 24 points - rta - hamsterstyle
18 - 23 points - rtu - Antiriad2097
19 - 23 points - rta - EarthPainting
20 - 23 points - mtc - Parsnip

21 - 22 points - rta - malus
22 - 22 points - mmx - fedprod
23 - 22 points - gpo - DocMoody
24 - 22 points - cib - frozentiger
25 - 21 points - gsg - partykiller
26 - 21 points - eab - Little Havie
27 - 21 points - mtc - Valdien
28 - 21 points - mmx - Knuckles
29 - 21 points - pop - turzilla
30 - 20 points - can - Dark Kariya
31 - 20 points - ata - jgkspsx
32 - 20 points - rta - Illusionary
33 - 20 points - mtc - Wibblewozzer
34 - 20 points - ftg - LockeTribal
35 - 19 points - ntl - Matt_Barber
36 - 19 points - hcg - dsparil
37 - 18 points - mnc - Dreamteam
38 - 18 points - ftg - rwklau
39 - 18 points - sh2 - Vino
40 - 17 points - rta - jett
41 - 16 points - gms - kopyright
42 - 15 points - mtc - FunnyJay
43 - 15 points - mnc - Sachiel
44 - 15 points - gms - j1m
45 - 14 points - nto - Lockenvogel
46 - 14 points - rtc - Carrot007
47 - 14 points - ftg - spooky
48 - 14 points - sh2 - godzella
49 - 14 points - hcg - mainpatr
50 - 14 points - smu - BulletMagnet
51 - 14 points - spz - Geddoe
52 - 14 points - mmx - Dnamei
53 - 13 points - rtu - Chinnico
54 - 13 points - eab - darkwave
55 - 13 points - gpo - rave
57 - 13 points - gpo - Eddie
56 - 13 points - cib - Seizokano
58 - 13 points - gms - hellermarie
59 - 12 points - hcg - personman
60 - 12 points - m!g - geohound
61 - 12 points - m!g - Red XIII
62 - 11 points - ftg - Vandelay
63 - 11 points - mmx - Lynx
64 - 11 points - hcg - Snake
65 - 11 points - gpo - OutOfBounds
66 - 11 points - gpo - Messor Torvus
67 - 10 points - ntl - Fizza
68 - 10 points - cib - LockeBoss
69 - 10 points - gav - Cube
70 - 10 points - mtc - MegaApple
71 - 10 points - rta - Aldo
72 - 10 points - sh2 - BVBFabi09
73 - 09 points - spz - VAL
74 - 09 points - rtc - Elginmcqueen
75 - 09 points - rpg - Zion
76 - 09 points - sh2 - FoxSpitzer
77 - 09 points - nto - 4C8en
78 - 09 points - mnc - Mitschel
79 - 09 points - rkb - Addearheart
80 - 09 points - pop - Don Como
81 - 09 points - mnc - HomiSite
82 - 08 points - eab - Mailman
83 - 08 points - mnc - elementalMaster
84 - 08 points - pop - PUH
85 - 08 points - ntl - Bunkerneath
86 - 08 points - mtc - freshVeggie
87 - 08 points - cib - Retro_Willie
88 - 08 points - rkb - salversurfer
89 - 08 points - hcg - teroknor
90 - 08 points - cib - Icho Tolot
91 - 08 points - hcg - alexmate
92 - 08 points - mmx - Klunky
93 - 07 points - wtd - rossyrg
94 - 07 points - mtc - QFNS
95 - 07 points - gpo - Konsolomio
96 - 07 points - gpo - FireSmoke
97 - 07 points - ftg - HarryPalmer
98 - 07 points - cib - Elemental Master
99 - 07 points - sh2 - Bonz
100- 06 points - mmx - LittleChoco
101- 06 points - rtu - necronom
102- 06 points - can - Jean-Luc Hazek
103- 06 points - rta - Blufunk
104- 06 points - sh2 - Neo_SUC
105- 06 points - ata - Mikebloke
106- 06 points - ftg - A Wink and a Wank
107- 06 points - mnc - Arne
108- 06 points - spz - Vincent 86
109- 06 points - pop - Daiyama
110- 05 points - smu - Mischief Maker
111- 05 points - pop - Sascha
112- 05 points - nto - Ande
113- 04 points - f64 - Endurion
114- 04 points - ntl - Dogorilla
115- 04 points - gpo - Navarone
116- 04 points - gms - hellifanboy
117- 04 points - f64 - Jammet
118- 04 points - gpo - GAMEPROFF
119- 03 points - gpo - Bully
120- 03 points - cib - Jan565
121- 03 points - gav - Yoshi
122- 03 points - ftg - Rich
123- 03 points - cib - tharathiel
124- 02 points - ftg - Destria
125- 02 points - rpg - D4rkD
126- 00 points - ntl - DarkMatter



LOCAL HIGH SCORE

1 - 24 points - Nobby_UK
1 - 24 points - Havie
3 - 21 points - Little Havie
4 - 13 points - darkwave
5 - 08 points - Mailman

Congrats to Nobby_UK and Havie for the local lead and the exact same, almost full score.

This was the final round of 2022! Now you can relax and wait for the big year end results. Thank you all for playing!