Monthly Retro Gaming Quiz

[gimbal]

It looks familiar, but no name comes to mind. I guess we'll get the solution today (Monday) somewhere along the line, only a little more patience

[Havie]

I know I'll kick myself...

[darkwave]

If it's an Amiga game and none of us got it we'll all have to kick each other!

[Havie]

Mr H said that two of the bottom line were Amiga games and I can only think that this one and 25 are the ones?

[gimbal]

There is a chance that #21 is one but I kind of doubt it; that looks like a blue sky background and Amiga games tend to have a gradient, not a flat color. Definitely not #22 since that is Fish from Nuclear Throne and definitely not #24 because that's a typical (emulated?) Gameboy game look.

Get those kicking boots ready, darkwave.

[Havie]

Unless I'm mad (didn't check as I was completely certain) - no 21 is Jungle Hunt arcade. Now who might look like a wally!

[Mr_Horizon]

July Quiz - answers & score

That's the way I like it - about 100 participants (okay, 95), lots of good entries and exactly ONE player with full score... a truly deserved first place. The difficulty level was a bit higher, so I had to help with more clues. I hope you had fun though!

You'll see who it is at the end of this post, now first the names of the games as text, then the pictures, then the high score.

1) Mega Man 6
Only one player did not know the "Blue Bomber"....
Answer rate: 99%
Other suggestions: -

2) Axiom Verge
I expected the mad scientist with the giant "glitch" gun to be more recognisable, hasn't this game been highly praised by the gaming press?
Answer rate: 68%
Other suggestions: Bionic Commando, Broforce

3) Turrican 3
Alternatively "Mega Turrican".
Answer rate: 76%
Other suggestions: Metroid, Probotector, Robo Cop.

4) Metal Slug 2
From the second part onwards, there were also female characters.
Answer rate: 82%
Other suggestions: Super Star Wars

5) Crypt of the Necrodancer.
Two people named the Zelda sequel "Cadence of Hyrule", which was also fine.
Answer rate: 80%
Other suggestions: Iconoclasts, Ittle Dew, Legend of Zelda.

6) Into the Breach
Answer rate: 75%
Other suggestions: Nectaris, Riftwalkers, Space Hulk, XCOM 2.

7) Parodius 2.
This game has several names, but the series was enough for me.
Answer rate: 64%
Other suggestions: Ordyne

8.) Horace
Answer rate: 63%
Other suggestions: Crash Test Dummies, Kairobotica

9.) Pengo
Answer rate: 58%
Other suggestions: Dig Dug, Flappy Bird, S

10) Soccer Kid
Answer rate: 76%
Other suggestions: -

11) Jump King
Guys, I spent a whole clue to make it clear that it is NOT Shovel Knight!
Answer rate: 53%
Other suggestions: 20x Shovel Knight, Shuffle Knight, Gunbird.

12) Time Bandit.
Four games were really hard to guess this time, this is one of them.
Answer rate: 16%
Other suggestions: 6x Garrison, Quartet, Xenophobe

13) Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton
Answer rate: 72%
Other suggestions: Mystic Riders, Touhou Project

14) Mappy
Answer rate: 58%
Other suggestions: The Mouse Police, Itchy & Scratchy

15) Arabian Nights
Answer rate: 55%
Other suggestions: Aladdin, Magical Hat

16) Markos Magic Football
Solving rate: 55%
Other suggestions: -

17) Smash TV
At first it was very difficult, but after my hint it wasn't anymore
Answer rate: 55%
Other suggestions: Another World, Judge Dredd, Parodius.

18) Cruise for a Corpse
Answer rate: 26%
Other suggestions: Alone in the Dark, Pixel Detective, Police Quest 2, This Is The Police.

19) Tryrush Deppy
Answer rate: 35%
Other suggestions: Car-Vup, Clockwork knight, Putt-Putt, Super Skidmarks, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

20) Shower with your Dad Simulator
Answer rate: 53%
Other suggestions: Ministry Of Broadcast, The Age Of Decadence

21) Jungle Hunt
This arcade screenshot was also among the particularly difficult four titles, only ten people got it right.
Answer rate: 11%
Other suggestions: Boulder Dash, Climber, Hard Hat Mack, Lanky Miner, Manic Miner, Pitfall, Skate or Die, Skate Peasant.

22) Nuclear Throne
Answer rate: 36%
Other suggestions: Bards Tale, Dropsy, Enter the Gungeon, Fish, Minecraft Pocket Edition, Wargroove, Zelda Oracle of Ages.

23) Elite
Getting this one right wasn't for casuals... only four people were able to correctly match this graphic from the space travel classic.
Answer rate: 4%
Other suggestions: 4x Space Quest, Manic Mansion, Metroid, Revenge of the Mutant Camels 2, Star Commander, Star Trek, Wing Commander.

24) Lunar Lander
And BAM, here's the kingmaker: only Windfish recognised the protagonist of this Japan-only Game Boy game (an extended version of the arcade classic) and thus scored full points!
Answer rate: 1%
Other suggestions: Catrap, Digger, Going Home, Miner, Mole Mania, Our Church and Halloween.

25) Dangerous Streets
An excruciatingly bad fighting game.
Answer rate: 27%
Other suggestions: Street Fighter, Body Blows, Total Carnage, Wrestlemania, Zelda.



Now here is the quiz picture again:


Answer picture:

Direct link: https://i.imgur.com/W3qla7n.png


HIGH SCORE

01 - 25 points - hcg - windfisch
02 - 23 points - ntl - lifer
03 - 23 points - mnc - Dream-Team
04 - 23 points - gsg - TheLastToKnow
05 - 23 points - hcg - excelsior
06 - 23 points - rta - marek
07 - 23 points - spz - The_BACH
08 - 22 points - ign - striderblade
09 - 22 points - eab - Havie
10 - 22 points - rta - AuraPaladinne

11 - 22 points - eab - darkwave
12 - 22 points - rta - residentgrigo
13 - 21 points - mmx - Knuckles
14 - 21 points - mmx - fedprod
15 - 21 points - mtc - Valdien
16 - 20 points - gsg - partykiller
17 - 20 points - mnc - Gerhard S.
18 - 20 points - rta - Roarer
19 - 19 points - hcg - teroknor
20 - 19 points - rta - Mushirigo
21 - 19 points - eab - Biscuit
22 - 19 points - eab - Nobby_UK
23 - 19 points - rta - EarthPainting
24 - 19 points - mtc - Wibblewozzer
25 - 18 points - rta - Cucurbitacée
26 - 18 points - mtc - Parsnip
27 - 18 points - rtc - Antiriad2097
28 - 18 points - pop - A Gentle Breeze
29 - 18 points - sh2 - Gatar
30 - 18 points - mnc - Mangamaniac2171
31 - 17 points - rta - Illusionary
32 - 17 points - can - Dark Kariya
33 - 17 points - mnc - elementalMaster
34 - 17 points - mnc - Dolphin
35 - 17 points - ntl - GrailUK
36 - 16 points - m!g - Red XIII
37 - 16 points - m!g - Kong
38 - 15 points - nto - Lockenvogel
39 - 15 points - mmx - Klunky
40 - 15 points - mnc - Lukulus
41 - 15 points - sh2 - Vino
42 - 14 points - mtc - MegaApple
43 - 14 points - hcg - Personman
44 - 14 points - mnc - Yeboah17
45 - 13 points - pop - Don Como
46 - 13 points - mmx - TheSnesFreak
47 - 12 points - mtc - FunnyJay
48 - 12 points - lgs - Numfuddle
49 - 12 points - hcg - alexmate
50 - 12 points - gpo - Navarone
51 - 12 points - mtc - mssq
52 - 12 points - m!g - geohound
53 - 12 points - m!g - SonicFanNerd
54 - 11 points - gms - hellermarie
55 - 11 points - rta - Emmadanstonu
56 - 11 points - gpo - Eddie
57 - 11 points - rta - malus
58 - 11 points - nto - Zarathustra
59 - 10 points - ntl - Dogorilla
60 - 10 points - gav - Wizdom
61 - 10 points - pop - dixip
62 - 10 points - rta - Blufunk
63 - 09 points - 4py - schockbock
64 - 09 points - rta - PsionBolt
65 - 08 points - rtc - Elgin_mcqueen
66 - 08 points - rpg - Zion
67 - 08 points - gms - kopyright
68 - 08 points - mmx - Lynx
69 - 08 points - mnc - HomiSite
70 - 08 points - rta - aLaxLuthor
71 - 07 points - mmx - LittleChoco
72 - 07 points - gpo - rave
73 - 07 points - sh2 - godzella
74 - 07 points - rta - Luke88
75 - 07 points - mnc - Mitschel
76 - 06 points - mtc - QFNS
77 - 05 points - rpg - D4rkD
78 - 05 points - hcg - Snake
79 - 05 points - mnc - Klees
80 - 04 points - eab - Mailman
81 - 04 points - pop - PUH
82 - 04 points - lgs - svenoble
83 - 04 points - mmx - Dnamei
84 - 04 points - pop - Sascha
85 - 04 points - nto - Ande
86 - 03 points - nto - Matchet1984
87 - 03 points - sh2 - FoxSpitzer
88 - 03 points - gpo - Bully
89 - 03 points - gms - hellifanboy
90 - 03 points - 4py - Scorplian
91 - 03 points - sh2 - BVBFabi09
92 - 02 points - rpg - Glubbfan
93 - 02 points - nto - 4C8en
94 - 02 points - gav - Yoshi
95 - 01 points - mmx - Shades

Well then, award ceremony: Congratulations to windfisch, lifer, Dream-Team, TheLastToKnow and marek, you are the TOP 5 and have won this round!

Also Kudos to excelsior, The_BACH, striderblade, Havie, and AuraPaladinne, together you are the Top 10.


LOCAL HIGH SCORE:

1 - 22 points - Havie
2 - 22 points - darkwave
3 - 19 points - Biscuit
4 - 19 points - Nobby_UK
5 - 04 points - Mailman

Congratulations to Havie for the local lead (0.025 ahead of darkwave).

Guys I am really happy to read all your speculation posts, it's great that this game series is getting so much response here. ^_^

And @Mailman, you should read up on Mega Man.

Thanks to everyone for taking part and see you next time!

[Havie]

Arghhhh - had the fish but didn't write the game title! What a wally. Well done to everyone and sorry Darkwave, it's like olympic scoring...

Thanks as always to Mr H for a fun and challenging quiz.

[Nobby_UK]

Doh !
I really should have got C 4 a C

[darkwave]

Well I never expected 23 to be Elite!

Congrats on the win Havie. What a close one!

And thanks again for your work, Mr Horizon!

[Biscuit]

Darnit. I knew it was a space theme (obvious really) but I've never actually played Elite. And Dangerous Streets, lol.

Good scores everyone.

Looking forward to the next one Mr H.

[gimbal]

Well i forgot to actually submit something but I did invest some time into this one... I found it a very hard one, I didn't have so much to go on to do research this time around. If you haven't played or seen the games this round was pretty harsh. And again there are lots of games here I have never even seen before.

Shower with your dad simulator. Oh man, I thought that one was West of Loathing. But that makes no sense now that I think about it because West of Loathing is black & white Doh.

[Mr_Horizon]

August Quiz - Riddles & Puzzles

The players have decided, the next round is all about puzzles!



Not quite what I expected (my "time travel" material collection was already done...) and not really my genre either, but let's have a look. So this time it's about puzzle games and puzzles in games... lots of expected classics are included, but I've tried for a few surprises too!

Deadline is Tuesday 31st of August, enter via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/

Here comes the quiz, enjoy:

Direct link: https://i.imgur.com/2lEN0AH.png

[Havie]

Know all of one! Can we have time travel instead please....

[gimbal]

Only 8 At least puzzle (and adventure) games is a theme that should be easier to search...

#8 is going to kill me, I recognise that goat but which of the couple dozen adventure games was it in... grrr.

There is one glaring omission in this list though, I'll have some choice words about that when the round is over.

[Biscuit]

Would have been my second choice so I'm happy. Well, was, until I saw it

lol, i always say that, i'm seeing a few, good luck everyone.

[Nobby_UK]

I have 5, Maybe 6 --- for now

[gimbal]

Up to 11 now... ho boy, I take back that this is easier to google. I also take back that #8 is going to kill me, that one was actually the easiest to find.

[Nobby_UK]

Up to 16 now

Need Clues

[Havie]

Had a bit of a go - got 20 I think but am now stuck!

Number 25 is a classic but had me for a bit...