Monthly Retro Gaming Quiz

[gimbal]

I know I only really get anywhere when I have all the clues so I'm not even trying before then

[Nobby_UK]

So, no clues for the 4 I don't know

Update:
Came across an Amiga game that looked like #17
So looked for a C64 version and BINGO !

[Mr_Horizon]

Originally Posted by Nobby_UK

Came across an Amiga game that looked like #17
So looked for a C64 version and BINGO !

I didn't know there was an Amiga version! ...oh man it looks crap.

[Mr_Horizon]

February Quiz - Clues #3

I have a message for all the top chefs gathered here - the menu must be ready by Monday evening! So you only have this weekend left.

At the moment there are just under sixty people, but only two of them from this forum. I hope there'll be more players, come out of hibernation - even with less than twenty points you'll make it into the top 10.

To make this round more palatable for you, here are the clues #3:

1) In game 17 you control a kitchen robot, it only appeared on Commodore computers.
2) There is no dinner bubbling in the cooking pot of 19, instead you mix up magic potions.
3) Titles 4 and 12 come from the arcades of the early 80s and were then ported to many other systems.
4) The number 18 is a cooking game from 2019 for all current modern systems.


Deadline is Monday 28 February, enter via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/

Here's the quiz one last time: https://i.imgur.com/STFWl0E.png

[Mr_Horizon]

watch out everyone, this rounds ends tonight!

[gimbal]

Well, I did not do my best. For one unfortunately a muscle in my right arm decided to flare up so I have been trying to minimise using a mouse for the last couple of days. But secondly... this quiz drives me mad. MAD! There must be a million cooking games or games with food in them and they all look the same! For game #3 I was seriously juggling with at least 5-7 games all of which had the perfect matching graphical style, so I just had to make a best guess effort.

And what's your obsession with cooking pots anyway huh? #3, #6, #11, #19, #20, #22, #24, cooking pot, cauldron, crock pot. I can't even find games matching the older style adventure looks when all I have is basically a cooking pot

Gah! If I have 10 correct, I'm happy.

[Nobby_UK]

Stuck on :
The Green Witch
The Animated Wok
and
The Chef/Cook by the Chest

[gimbal]

Well that means you found #18, my chef's hat off to you.

[Havie]

Been so busy - only had a go tonight! Got around 20 (ish) - I think???

At least I got an entry in!

[Mr_Horizon]

February Quiz - Answers & Score

What a reception, with 108 guests it's no longer just a dinner but a real feast instead! Usually each quiz season starts off a bit sluggish, but with over a hundred players this round was really well attended.

Maybe it's also because of the new forums? With the Rocket Beans, the Shmups Forum and the World of Players community there are three new entries in 2022 - in addition, the "lastgamestanding" has moved to join the new "Wasted" gaming page. Welcome all!

Here are the answers... first the names of the games as text, then the pictures, then the high score.


1) Maniac Mansion
Answer rate: 88%
Other suggestions: Friday the 13th, Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park, Zack McKracken.

2) Overcooked.
The easiest title of this round!
Answer rate: 91%
Other suggestions: Animal Crossing

3) Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Answer rate: 81%
Other suggestions: God Of War, Monster Hunter Tri, Valheim

4) Burger Time
Here you can see the C64 version of this classic.
Answer rate: 81%
Other suggestions: Cook Race

5) Pizza Connection / Tycoon
Answer rate: 83%
Other suggestions: Club Penguin, Cooking Mama, GTA Chinatown Wars, Pizza Maker.

6) Don't Starve
A striking graphic style makes this game easy to guess, even if you haven't played it yourself.
Answer rate: 77%
Other suggestions: -

7) Zak McKracken.
The protagonist in his kitchen.
Answer rate: 68%
Other suggestions: leisure suit larry, Maniac Mansion, Police Quest 2, The life of Ray McDonald.

8.) Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time
Answer rate: 66%
Other suggestions: Ministry of Broadcast, Streets of Rage

9) Kitchen Panic
Japan-only potato platformer, not as well known as I thought.
Answer rate: 36%
Other suggestions: Chuckie Egg, Dizzy, Hot Potato!, Potato, Potato Head, Potato Game, Potato Simulator, Spud Danger.

10) Job Simulator
A fun virtual reality romp - but I feel bad, "cooking simulator" would have been a much better choice for this quiz.
Answer rate: 64%
Other suggestions: 9x Cooking Simulator, Glover, The cooking game VR.

11) Chewy: Esc from F5.
I thought these characters would be hard to forget - but probably a lot of people have just never seen the game.
Answer rate: 22%
Other suggestions: 9x Leisure Suit Harry, 7x day of the tentacle, Escape from Monkey Island, normality, Orion Burger

12) Food Fight
Answer rate: 48%
Other suggestions: The Fruit Cook, Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory, Superstar Chefs.

13) Micro Machines 2
This is not a real ingame screenshot, but photoshopped - I removed all the cars to have only toast+coffee.
Answer rate: 68%
Other suggestions: Professor Layton

14) the three Stooges
Answer rate: 62%
Other suggestions: 3x Monkey Island, Leisure Suit Larry, iron chef, Coffee Talk, 4 Fists for One Hallelujah

15) Guild Wars 2
Answer rate: 32%
Other suggestions: 3x Black Desert, 3x World of Warcraft, Runescape, Conan, Elder Scrolls Online, Skyrim, Fable, League of Legends, Neverwinter, Oblivion

16) Coffee Talk
Answer rate: 61%
Other suggestions: Necrobarista, Barista Life OMG

17) the big deal
Played it as a kid and never figured out what to do.
Answer rate: 40%
Other suggestions: Epic Chef, Lemmon, Lemon

18.) Brunch Club
The user EarthPainting gets a mercy point for "Crunch Club".
Answer rate: 24%
Other suggestions: 3x cooking simulator, Alice in Wonderland, Art of Balance, "Cook, Serve, Delicious", Cooking Madness, Epic Chef, Crunch Club

19) Witchtastic
This came out last year, seems like it was inspired by Overcooked, along with #24 the most difficult title in this round.
Answer rate: 9%
Other suggestions: A Bards Tale, Alchemist Simulator, Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk, Harry Potter, the sims 4, Witch It.

20) Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Answer rate: 25%
Other suggestions: Addams Family, Harry Potter, Lord of the rings, Prince of Persia, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Simon The Sorcerer, Ultima, Zelda Wand of Gamelon.

21) VA-11 Hall-A
I hate this name! And no, "red strings club" is the other sci-fi barkeeper game.
Answer rate: 59%
Other suggestions: Coctail Cuppo, Death Road to Canada, The Red Strings Club.

22) the Supper
Answer rate: 25%
Other suggestions: Dead Cells, Graveyard Keeper, Rayman Legends, Secret of Monkey Island, Toonstruck, Soup - The Game.

23) Dungeon Munchies
Answer rate: 16%
Other suggestions: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Battle Chef Brigade, Cuphead, Dragons Lair.

24) Tavern Master
A restaurant manager with a boring look, perfect for a mean puzzle entry
Answer rate: 9%
Other suggestions: Alone in the Dark, Asterix and Obelix: Slap Them All, Bobby Cooks at Home, E?statica, The Settlers, The Sims, World of Warcraft.

25) Fast Food
Answer rate: 20%
Other suggestions: Aghata Christie, Day of the Tentacle.


Here is the quiz image again:



Answer image:

Direct link: https://i.imgur.com/aSnexYt.png


HIGH SCORE TABLE

01 - 25 points - mnc - Mangamaniac2171
01 - 25 points - rta - marek
01 - 25 points - hcg - excelsior
01 - 25 points - spz - The_BACH
01 - 25 points - rtc - Antiriad2097
06 - 24 points - spz - Striderblade
07 - 24 points - mnc - Gerhard S.
08 - 24 points - ntl - lifer
09 - 23 points - rpg - Calastellio
10 - 23 points - gsg - TheLastToKnow

11 - 23 points - rta - EarthPainting
12 - 22 points - gsg - partykiller
13 - 22 points - mnc - Dream-Team
14 - 22 points - eab - Nobby_UK
15 - 22 points - rpg - Dezue
16 - 21 points - mtc - Parsnip
17 - 21 points - rta - malus
18 - 20 points - mtc - Valdien
19 - 20 points - gav - Wizdom
20 - 20 points - eab - Havie
21 - 19 points - sh2 - Gatar
22 - 19 points - rta - Qwark
23 - 18 points - rta - Illusionary
24 - 18 points - mmx - fedprod
25 - 17 points - mmx - Knuckles
26 - 17 points - gms - kopyright
27 - 17 points - eab - darkwave
28 - 16 points - hcg - teroknor
29 - 16 points - rta - Roarer
30 - 16 points - ata - jgkspsx
31 - 16 points - rta - aLaxLuthor
32 - 16 points - eab - gimbal
33 - 16 points - rtc - ElginMcQueen
34 - 15 points - eab - mailman
35 - 15 points - mmx - LittleChoco
36 - 15 points - can - Franky Mikey
37 - 15 points - hcg - personman
38 - 15 points - hcg - windfisch
39 - 15 points - sh2 - FoxSpitzer
40 - 15 points - mnc - elementalMaster
41 - 15 points - mtc - Wibblewozzer
42 - 15 points - rta - Nihilistic Monk
43 - 14 points - mtc - FunnyJay
44 - 14 points - hcg - dsparil
45 - 13 points - sh2 - godzella
46 - 13 points - ftg - Lurker
47 - 13 points - nto - Lockenvogel
48 - 13 points - can - M.Rick75
49 - 13 points - can - Kulfy
50 - 13 points - pop - Don Como
51 - 12 points - gms - hellermarie
52 - 12 points - hcg - Woody Alien
53 - 12 points - m!g - Red XIII
54 - 12 points - sh2 - Vino
55 - 12 points - gpo - DocMoody
56 - 11 points - mmx - Lynx
57 - 11 points - wtd - Rossyrg
58 - 11 points - mmx - Klunky
59 - 11 points - gpo - rave
60 - 11 points - wtd - Credit00
61 - 11 points - can - Dark Kariya
62 - 11 points - m!g - geohound
63 - 11 points - gpo - Eddie
64 - 11 points - rkb - kirika1987
65 - 10 points - wtd - kristheb
66 - 10 points - mmx - Dnamei
67 - 10 points - mnc - HomiSite
68 - 10 points - rtc - Markopoloman
69 - 10 points - rta - Blufunk
70 - 9 points - pop - Sascha
71 - 9 points - mmx - Cutter Slade
72 - 9 points - mnc - Mitschel
73 - 9 points - mnc - Yeboah17
74 - 9 points - pop - Arne
75 - 9 points - rkb - DSOP_ape
76 - 8 points - wtd - zoltan.schwegler
77 - 8 points - gpo - Navarone
78 - 8 points - mnc - euph
79 - 8 points - sh2 - BVBFabi09
80 - 7 points - gpo - Konsolomio
81 - 7 points - rpg - Zion
82 - 7 points - hcg - Snake
83 - 7 points - gms - Kanedat
84 - 7 points - hcg - alexmate
85 - 7 points - gms - hellifanboy
86 - 7 points - ntl - Dogorilla
87 - 7 points - sh2 - Bonz
88 - 6 points - pop - PUH
89 - 6 points - ntl - CactusMan
90 - 6 points - gpo - OutOfBounds
91 - 5 points - ata - JeremiahJT
92 - 5 points - ntl - Fizza
93 - 5 points - rta - DaveLong
94 - 5 points - smu - Ed Oscuro
95 - 5 points - nto - Ande
96 - 5 points - gpo - Bully
97 - 5 points - mmx - Shades
98 - 5 points - rkb - Phliege
99 - 4 points - pop - Daiyama
100- 4 points - rkb - ToniLustig
101- 4 points - nto - 4C8en
102- 3 points - gav - Yoshi
103- 3 points - gms - Black Friday
104- 2 points - ata - BydoEmpire
105- 2 points - ntl - StarPoint
106- 2 points - ntl - Minecraftemery
107- 2 points - rkb - Grandhanate
108- 1 points - rkb - Lime


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
m!g - Man!iac
mmx - Multimediaxis
mnc - old maniac
mtc - Metacouncil
ntl - NintendoLife
nto - NTower
pop - Powerplay
rkb - Rocket Beans
rpg - RPG Maker
rta - ResetEra
rtc - RetroCanteen
sh2 - Shock²
smu - Shmups
spz - Spazio PC
wop - World of Players
wtd - Wasted


Well then, an award ceremony: Congratulations to Mangamaniac, marek, excelsior, the_BACH and Antiriad.... you all got FULL POINTS and won this round!

Also congrats to Striderblade, Gerhard S, lifer, Calastellio and TheLastToKnow, together you are the TOP 10.


LOCAL HIGH SCORE:

1 - 22 points - Nobby_UK
2 - 20 points - Havie
3 - 17 points - darkwave
4 - 16 points - gimbal
5 - 15 points - mailman

Congratulations to Nobby_UK for the local lead.

Thanks to everyone for playing!

[gimbal]

Oh my god I guessed #3 correct! For the longest time I had Valheim there.

Not #19 though, I honestly thought it was the Sims 4 (which has a Witch DLC because of course it does). The graphical style just matches. I have seen SO many witch games, given how gnarly Job Simulator was it just seemed like the kind of thing mr. Horizon would do to me.

Job Simulator. OOoooOOooh Job Simulator. Job Simulatorrrrr. I knew there was going to be some kind of simulator game in there so I thought: cooking simulator! Of course it exists, and it KIND OF looks like the screenshot except that cooking simulator has far more high resolution graphics. I was just randomly searching for "grill simulator" (which led me to BBQ simulator, to restaurant tycoon, to... etc. etc. a whole list of games) until I randomly spotted a picture of Job Simulator which was exactly yank enough.

Dungeon Munchies :/ Never heard of it. I honestly thought it was a late era Sierra game like Torin's Passage or King's Quest 7. I also investigated Discworld 2, all games which kind of have that end-of-the-DOS era cartoony style before things turned ugly low poly 3D.

So: games I sorely missed in this round.

#1: Final Fantasy 15. I mean cooking is a whole game mechanic in it which was kind of unique to this entry of the franchise!

#2: Minecraft. Producing food is such a huge component of that game. Would have probably been too easy, though.

#3: Out to Lunch - the Amiga classic.

#4: Prehistorik 2. I think the person who made Prehistorik 2 was a diabetic. The bonuses are really oddly focused on tons of sweets.

#5: Now this one is a little out there but the genius interactive visual novel "Cooking Companions", a horror title inspired by Doki Doki Literature Club.


Having Don't Starve in it makes up for a lot though, that is the king of all survival games especially when it comes to the cooking mechanic. Any game in which you can turn monster meat into meatballs and you can cook with ice and twigs as fillers is just glorious.

[Nobby_UK]

Well Done All --- Nice Game

[darkwave]

Congrats on the lead Nobby!

A respectable 17 points for me. Should have got Fast Food, could have got Elvira, the rest were completely unknown to me!

Intrigued by the DS9 game. Anyone played it?

Thanks again for your time and effort Mr Horizon

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by darkwave

Intrigued by the DS9 game. Anyone played it?

Not only did I not play it, but it never popped up in my searches :/

[Mr_Horizon]

Originally Posted by gimbal

So: games I sorely missed in this round.

#1: Final Fantasy 15. I mean cooking is a whole game mechanic in it which was kind of unique to this entry of the franchise!

#2: Minecraft. Producing food is such a huge component of that game. Would have probably been too easy, though.

#3: Out to Lunch - the Amiga classic.

#4: Prehistorik 2. I think the person who made Prehistorik 2 was a diabetic. The bonuses are really oddly focused on tons of sweets.

#5: Now this one is a little out there but the genius interactive visual novel "Cooking Companions", a horror title inspired by Doki Doki Literature Club.

Thanks for the great post!

To your 5 suggestions... I actually had FF15 in it for a while, but didn't come across good screenshots - it was either a food menu, or the finished food on a table. Now I looked again, and THIS would have actually been a great picture.

I try not to overuse Minecraft, it has already been in several older quizzes.

We had Out to lunch just once before, but less than a year ago!

...and I had no idea about Prehistorik 2 and Cooking Companions.

Anyway, new round is coming soon!

[Mr_Horizon]

March Quiz - the "Mystery Theme"

February was about the kitchen, March is about.... yes, about what?? This time you can answer the question of the theme yourself! All 25 games this month have one crucial detail in common. Whoever finds out the secret theme (and enters it correctly in the bonus question) gets a bonus point for themselves AND the other players in their forum.

Maybe it's easy, maybe it's difficult - I'm curious myself how many of you recognise the theme.

Deadline is Thursday 31st March, participation via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/.

Here comes the quiz, have fun:

Direct link: https://i.imgur.com/CJr431c.png

[gimbal]

Those are some cool looking games. Wish I knew which ones they were :/ I recognise... 7 of them

Regardless I do have an idea what the theme is. edit: Whoops, nope. #7 breaks my theory

[Nobby_UK]

5 Definites
2 Maybes

[Havie]

Think I have 9 right off but no idea of the theme?

[Nobby_UK]

A lot more
no idea of the Theme