2002 – Trivia Contest Answers
Sequels
* What was the sequel to Defender? – Stargate
* What was the Sequel to Berzerk? – Frenzy
* What was the sequel to 1942? – 1943
* What was the sequel to Smash TV? – Total Carnage
* What was the sequel to Bubble Bobble? – Rainbow Islands (NOT any others! Rainbow Islands was actually subtitled “The Story of Bubble Bobble 2″, and was both the intended and chronological sequel.)
Gameplay
* In Mouse Trap, what food is consumed by the mouse to allow it to attack the cats? – Dog Bone
* What aerial shooting game starts in 1910 and ends in 2001? – Time Pilot
* In what Atari arcade game does Officer Bob pull over and arrest litterbugs, honkers, dopers, speeders, assaulters, and murders? – APB
* What game featured a boss named Death Adder? – Golden Axe
* Which Cinematronics arcade vector game didn’t limit your game to time or lives, but instead ended when all your cargo was stolen? – Rip Off
* This low production laserdisc game featured the simplest controls — a single button. What was it? – Badlands
* What game’s levels are broken up into the Worker Zone, Warrior Zone, Planetoid Zone, and Void Zone? – Sinistar
* How many rings of shielding surround the enemy at the center of the screen in arcade Star Castle? – 3
* In Satan’s hollow, what must you build to advance to the final battle of each level? – A bridge
* How many lanes of cars exist in Arcade frogger? – 5
Arcade oddities
* The American arcade videogame “Bells and Whistles” is the US version of what popular Japanese shooter? – Twinbee
* What Atari video game was always two player maximum in its upright versions and four player maximum in its cocktail version? – Warlords
* What Sega vector game was always two player maximum in its upright version and four player maximum in its cocktail version? – Eliminator (I WILL trade my firstborn if anyone can get me a cocktail eliminator.)
* What Nintendo boxing game had two monitors in one cabinet, one for gameplay and one for score? – Punch Out or Super Punch Out
* What Atari pinball machine featured a 4′ x 8′ playfield and 4′ x 4′ backglass, making it the largest pinball machine ever produced? – Hercules
Characters
* In Kangaroo, what is the animal enemy you are working against? – Monkey
* What is Major Havoc’s first name? – Rex
* What did Mr. Do dress up as? – Clown
* What kind of animal is Mappy? – Mouse
* What’s the snake’s name in Q*Bert? – Coily
* In what game must Zeke rescue Zelda? – Zoo Keeper
* What color is Blinky in Pac-Man? – Blue
* What game did George, Lizzy and Ralph appear in? – Rampage
* What vechicle was used by the clown in ‘Kick’ and ‘Kickman’? – Unicycle
* What character rode his bike on Easy Street, Middle Road, and Hard Way? – Paperboy
Road Rage
* What Atari game credited as a sequel to the pole position series has three monitors for one player? – TX-1
* What Atari driving game from 1976 featured the graphic of your car painted on the monitor instead of displayed in the game’s graphics? – Night Driver (Note, 280ZZZAP was proposed as an alternate answer, but this is a Midway produced game, not Atari.)
* In what driving game can you select the background music from ‘Musical Sound Shower’, ‘Passing Breeze, and ‘Spash Wave’ before you begin? – Outrun
* What 1976 Exidy driving game featured people that turned into tombstones when you ran them over? – Death Race (NOT Death Race 2000!)
* What was the background music for Spy Hunter? – Peter Gunn Theme
Seen on Screen
* What 1983 Atari release appears in a movie of the same name and required you to recover top secret plans from the evil Dr. Boom? – Cloak & Dagger
* What 1989 movie release about a videogame competition was basically a thinly disguised advertisement for a upcoming Nintendo game? – The Wizard
* What movie featured an Atari upright video game that actually tested people’s skill at space combat to recruit them for an alien war? – The Last Starfighter
* What videogame related movie had numerous references to the ficticious games Space Paranoids, Matrix Blaster, Vice Squad, all created by Kevin Flynn? – Tron
* In the movie ‘Nightmares’, Emilio Estevez plays which ficticious videogame that comes to life when he reaches level 13 after breaking into the arcade to play it? – Bishop of Battle
Technology
* What was Atari’s only Laserdisc game? – Firefox
* What laserdisc game’s animation was taken Lupin III? – Cliff Hanger
* What Atari videogame’s production run was cut short to convert all remaining cabinets to Asteroids? – Lunar Lander
* What Nintendo videogame’s run was cut short so all remaining product was converted to Donkey Kong? – Radarscope
* What was the first arcade videogame that contained synthisized human speech according to the KLOV? – Berzerk
* What was Sega’s failed venture into the world of psuedo-holographic videogames? – Time Traveler
* According to the KLOV, what was the first video game released with 100% of its graphics displayed in true RGB color? – Galaxian
* What game featured a pinball ‘knocker’ (the device used to announce a free game in pinball) that fired when your character fell off the bottom of the screen? – Q*Bert
* What was the last Atari vector game produced, requiring only a trackball for gameplay control? – Quantum (many people failed to notice the reference to vector, leading them to Marble Madness or Crystal Castles)
* What early 70s videogame from Atari, which contained no monitor, had gameplay identical to the later released ‘Simon’, the handheld pattern matching game by Milton Bradley? – Touch Me
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* What game, made by Atari in 1983, is credited by the KLOV as being the first game to use 3-D filled polygons? – I, Robot
* How many Simultaneous player could play Indy 800 by Atari? – Eight
* What game stopped to tally your score at points E, J, O, T and Z? – Moon Patrol
* What Cinematronics arcade game appears last alphabetically in a complete list of all arcade releases? – ZZYZZYXX
* Qix + Naked women = ? – Gals Panic
STUFF YOU DON’T KNOW
* What are the characters names and nicknames in Double Dragon? – Billy and Jimme Lee, aka: Hammer and Spike
* What NES game was Fred Savage playing in ‘The Princess Bride’ – Hardball
* This 1988 sequel to Empire City: 1931 featured a tommy gun on the marquee. What is it? – Dead Angle
* What Cinematronics vector game was coded in color, but was released with a black and white monitor? – War of the Worlds
* ‘The past and future have collided in a world gone mad’ in this game set in 2513 starring Jack Tenrec, Mess O’Bradovich, the lovely Dipolmant and Explorer Hannah Dundee and Mustapha Cairo. What kind of cars do they drive and what animals do they fight? – Cadillacs and Dinosuars