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No themes for this quiz per say, but there is some classic gaming leanings here.  We're throwing in a little bit of everything.  Have fun!

 

March 9, 2007

 

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Classic-ish Free For All Gaming Quiz

1. "Reticulating Splines" is associated with which game series?
 

  Trauma Center: Second Opinion
  Tex Murphy
  SimCity
  All of the above


2. Which was not a chapter in the Tex Murphy series?
 

  Tex Murphy: Overseer
  Under a Killing Moon
  Mean Streets
  Tex Murphy: Does a Little "Undercover" Work


3. Often cited as the creator of the Leisure Suit Larry series, Al Lowe is noted as saying the greatest advancement for PC gaming was "the mouse, because it freed up your other hand to do other things." The other hand is used to:
 

  Hold your beer
  Use the now-classic AWSD finger position for first-person shooters
  Activate shortcut keys for real-time strategy games
  We don't know, but we bet it's dirty


4. In his youth, John Carmack was busted for stealing:
 

  Condoms
  Computers
  A loaf of bread
  A Pong arcade machine


5. "Look, a three headed monkey!" was often used as a diversion in this series:
 

  Ape Escape
  Skull Monkeys
  Monkey Island
  Super Monkey Ball


6.
The picture above is taken from a 1992 adventure game that starred:
 

  Laura Bow
  Adrienne Delaney
  Grace Nakamura
  Maureen Corley


7. Tim Schafer has been associated with some of the funniest games of the last 15 years. Which game did Tim Schafer not work on?
 

  Voodoo Vince
  Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
  Grim Fandango
  Psychonauts


8. She played Special Agent Tanya in both Red Alert 2 and Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge.
 

  Athena Massey
  Kari Wurher
  Aleksandra Kaniak
  Lynne Litteer


9. The now-classic space fighter Wing Commander first appeared in:
 

  1987
  1988
  1990
  1991


10. Well before the convenience of Windows, PC gamers were often saddled with re-configuring these two files to get DOS-based games to run properly:
 

  autoexec.bat and config.sys
  config.exe and readme.txt
  runtime.sys and auto.exe
  con.fig and diedosdie.exe


11. Lawrence Holland heads up Totally Games, which is currently working on an Alien Syndrome re-make for Sega. But Lawrence is best known for having a part in:
 

  Secret Weapons of Germany
  Star Wars: X-Wing
  Secret Weapons in My Pants (AO version)
  Flight Simulator 3


12.
This is a screenshot from what game?
 

  An early beta of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
  Loom
  Awful
  Lord of the Rings: Wizard Songs


13. Before Sierra became a "label" it had a proud tradition of adventure games. The company was so successful it published a quarterly magazine, which could be found on newsstands. What was it called?
 

  Adventuring with Sierra-Online
  InterAction
  Quester
  Adventurer


14. Activision has published a number of titles in the Call of Duty franchise. Including individual platforms, how many Call of Duty games have been published?
 

  3
  12
  15
  More than 20


15. Electronic Arts published its first edition of Madden Football in:
 

  1988
  1986
  1989
  1991


16. The battle between Sega and Nintendo during the early to mid '90s 16-bit Wars is the stuff legends are made of. During that time both companies produced many different advertising slogans but Sega produced two that still have resonance with all this "next-gen" techonology. One was "Sega!" and the other was:
 

  Sonic Will Blow the Doors Off!
  Welcome to the Next Level
  Sega-CD? You'll C!
  Feel the Power


17. "Stop and pop" has been used to describe:
 

  The hobby of acne suffers
  Gears of War
  Whack-a-Mole mini game in the original Sam & Max
  On the Spot


18. Halo started development as a game for this platform:
 

  PC
  Xbox
  Mac
  Gameboy Color


19. Ex-GameSpot editor, Greg Kasavin, recently left GameSpot to join:
 

  The Army
  EA Redwood Shores
  Bethesda
  Microsoft


20. Gary Owens voiced the narrator for these two games:
 

  Space Quest V and Leisure Suit Larry 3
  Day of the Tentacle and Leisure Suit Larry 4
  Space Quest IV and Space Quest VI
  Zero Wing and Mad Dog McCree



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