The Answers

Console Manufacturers - Part 1

  1. Amstrad
  2. Sega
  3. Daewoo
  4. SNK
  5. Casio
  6. View-Master
  7. NEC
  8. Interton
  9. LJN
  10. Sega

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Genres - Part 1

  1. Platform Game
  2. FPS
  3. FPS
  4. Point & Click Adventure
  5. Point & Click Adventure
  6. Point & Click Adventure
  7. Music/Rhythm Game
  8. Platform Game
  9. FPS
  10. Sports Game

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Composers - Part 1

  1. Kazumi Totaka
  2. Jeremy Soule
  3. Koji Kondo
  4. Shawn Lee
  5. José González
  6. Masato Nakamura
  7. Junichi Nakatsuru
  8. Bobby Prince
  9. Mike Morasky
  10. Lee Jackson

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Name the Publisher - Part 1

  1. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
  2. Konami
  3. Eidos Interactive/Square Enix
  4. Nintendo/Video System
  5. Electronic Arts
  6. Ubisoft
  7. Sega
  8. Equity Games/Evolved Games
  9. Milton Bradley
  10. Electronic Arts/Millennium Interactive

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Celebrity Cameo Appearances

  1. Gary Coleman
  2. Snoop Dogg
  3. Phil Collins
  4. Aerosmith
  5. Shaquille O’Neal
  6. Keith David
  7. Redman 
  8. Drew Carey
  9. Katt Williams and Ricky Gervais
  10. Burt Reynolds

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Anagrams - Part 1

  1. Bioshock
  2. Batman: Arkham City
  3. Space Invaders
  4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
  5. Sonic the Hedgehog
  6. SoulCalibur
  7. StarCraft
  8. Counter-Strike
  9. Streetfighter
  10. Castlevania

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Handhelds

  1. 1989
  2. 2001
  3. 1995
  4. 2004
  5. 2011
  6. 1990
  7. 1989
  8. 2003
  9. 2004
  10. 2011

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Game Release Years - Part 1

  1. 2004
  2. 2005
  3. 2007
  4. 2007
  5. 2007
  6. 2005
  7. 2006
  8. 2002
  9. 2001
  10. 2002

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Sidekicks - Part 1

  1. Commander Shepard
  2. Olimar
  3. Scrooge McDuck
  4. Mario
  5. Banjo
  6. Ash Ketchum
  7. Fox McCloud
  8. Guybrush Threepwood
  9. Sonic
  10. Marcus Phoenix

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Villains - Part 1

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
  2. Super Smash Bros
  3. Resident Evil
  4. Borderlands 2
  5. Bioshock
  6. Earthworm Jim
  7. Super Mario Bros.
  8. Metroid
  9. Far Cry 3
  10. Enter the Matrix

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FIFA Cover Stars - Part 1

  1. Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho
  2. Eden Hazard
  3. Wayne Rooney & Kaka
  4. Erik Thorstvedt
  5. Theo Walcott, Frank Lampard, and Wayne Rooney
  6. Roberto Carlos, Ryan Giggs, and Edgar Davids
  7. Patrick Vieira, Fernando Morientes, and Andriy Shevchenko
  8. David Platt and Piotr Świerczewski
  9. Wayne Rooney & Jack Wilshere
  10. Dennis Bergkamp

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Console Years - Part 1

  1. 2012
  2. 1984
  3. 2013
  4. 1988
  5. 1993
  6. 2006
  7. 1999
  8. 2000
  9. 1994
  10. 1995

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Tech Specs - Part 1

  1. 8GB (bonus point for saying an additional 32MB of eSRAM)
  2. Emotion Engine
  3. Eight
  4. Espresso
  5. Reality Signal Processor and Reality Display Processor
  6. 128 MB
  7. Xenon (not Xeon)
  8. White, black, light blue, lime green pink and khaki
  9. Eight
  10. ARM Cortex-AP MPCore

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Delays

  1. 6 years (2004 - 2010)
  2. 6 years (1998 - 2004)
  3. 8 years (2000 - 2008)
  4. 9 years (1998 - 2007)
  5. 6 years (2004 - 2010)
  6. Still not released at the time of writing...
  7. 14 years (1997 - 2011)
  8. 11 years (1995 - 2006)
  9. 5 years (2006 - 2011)
  10. 5 Years (2005 - 2010)

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Bestsellers - Part 1

  1. Sonic Adventure
  2. Gran Turismo
  3. Monster Hunter Portable 3D
  4. Virtua Fighter 2
  5. Pac-Man
  6. Gran Turismo 5
  7. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  8. Halo 2
  9. Kinect Adventures
  10. New Super Mario Bros.

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Genres - Part 2

  1. RPG
  2. Platform Game
  3. FPS
  4. FPS
  5. Beat ‘em Up
  6. RPG
  7. Music / Rhythm Game
  8. Music / Rhythm Game
  9. RPG
  10. Beat ‘em Up

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Video Game Worlds - Part 1

  1. Dragon Quest VIII
  2. Borderlands
  3. Dead Space
  4. The Legend of Zelda
  5. EVE Online
  6. Fable
  7. Everquest
  8. Bioshock
  9. Kingdoms of Amalur
  10. Halo

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Relationships - Part 1

  1. Mother & Son
  2. Brothers
  3. Uncle & Niece
  4. Mother & Daughter
  5. Brothers
  6. Father& Son
  7. Father & Son
  8. Father & Daughter
  9. Mother & Daughter
  10. Brothers

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Console Accessories - Part 1

  1. Atari 2600
  2. Xbox 360 (Kinect)
  3. Sony PlayStation
  4. Nintendo Gameboy
  5. Sega Dreamcast
  6. NES
  7. Sega Megadrive
  8. Nintendo Wii
  9. Sega Megadrive
  10. SNES

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Anagrams - Part 2

  1. Super Mario Kart
  2. Super Mario Galaxy
  3. Super Smash Bros
  4. Double Dragon
  5. Super Metroid
  6. The Legend of Zelda
  7. Dark Souls
  8. Tetris
  9. Gran Turismo
  10. Virtua Fighter

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Creators - Part 1

  1. Masaya Matsuura
  2. David Jones
  3. Hironobu Sakaguchi
  4. Satoshi Tajiri
  5. Will Wright
  6. Hideo Kojima
  7. Mel Croucher
  8. Matt Smith
  9. Archer MacLean
  10. Sid Meier

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Console Manufacturers - Part 2

  1. Tomy
  2. Nintendo
  3. Sega
  4. Sega
  5. Mattel
  6. Zanussi
  7. Atari
  8. Commodore
  9. Pioneer
  10. Sony

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Banned Games

  1. It featured nudity and has ‘God’ in the title
  2. It featured the US invading the country’s capital
  3. One of the models was underage
  4. It featured a lesbian encounter between a feminine alien and female human
  5. The game promoted energy drinks, the advertising of which are banned in the country
  6. It recognised Tibet as an independent nation
  7. Involves gambling
  8. Excessive Nazi references
  9. Some people considered it was just too violent for us!
  10. The game’s depiction of Mexicans was insulting and could scare away tourists from the area

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Franchise Games - Part 1

  1. False
  2. False
  3. False
  4. True
  5. False
  6. False
  7. True
  8. True
  9. False
  10. False

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Development Studios - Part 1

  1. Ambrosia Software
  2. HareSoft
  3. Polyphonic Digital
  4. Bizarre Creations
  5. Infinity Ward
  6. Ubisoft Montreal
  7. Argonaut (Nintendo EAD)
  8. Rocksteady Studios
  9. Hudson Soft
  10. Rare

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NHL Cover Stars

  1. Dion Phaneuf
  2. Alexander Ovechkin
  3. Martin Brodeur
  4. Claude Giroux
  5. Jonathan Toews
  6. Wayne Gretzky
  7. Steven Stamkos
  8. Patrick Kane
  9. Eric Staal
  10. Patrice Bergeron

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Tech Specs - Part 2

  1. Nunchuck
  2. 3
  3. 854x480
  4. Blu-ray
  5. 400
  6. 320GB
  7. 1.75GHz
  8. GDDR5
  9. 2
  10. 2 x AA

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Game Release Years - Part 2

  1. 2010
  2. 2001
  3. 2000
  4. 2000
  5. 1997
  6. 1996
  7. 1997
  8. 1991
  9. 1993
  10. 1999

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Composers - Part 2

  1. Nobuo Uematsu
  2. Mahito Yokota
  3. Mel Croucher
  4. Peter McConnell
  5. Koji Kondo
  6. Tappi Iwase
  7. Hiroshi Kawaguchi
  8. Lisa Miskovsky
  9. Kenta Nagata
  10. Gary Schyman

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Exclusives - Part 1

  1. ZX Spectrum
  2. Panasonic FZ-1 R.E.A.L 3DO
  3. Atari Jaguar
  4. Playstation Vita
  5. Sega Master System
  6. NES
  7. Atari Lynx
  8. Sega Mega CD
  9. Sega Mega Drive
  10. Nintendo Game Boy

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Sales Comparisons

  1. Call of Duty: World at War (by 700,000)
  2. Super Mario World (by 5 million)
  3. Nintendogs (by 400,000 units)
  4. Grand Theft Auto V (by 6.5 million)
  5. Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green (by half a million)
  6. Skyrim (by 1 million)
  7. The Sims 2 (by 4 million)
  8. Super Mario Land (by 60,000)
  9. Wii Sports (by 56 million)
  10. Mario Kart Wii (by 15.5 million)

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Genres - Part 3

  1. Point & Click Adventure
  2. Puzzler
  3. Platform Game
  4. Beat ‘em Up
  5. Beat ‘em Up
  6. FPS
  7. Music / Rhythm Game
  8. Platform Game
  9. Point & Click Adventure
  10. Point & Click Adventure

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Console Years - Part 2

  1. 1979
  2. 1995
  3. 2001
  4. 1977
  5. 2006
  6. 1982
  7. 1990
  8. 1990
  9. 2005
  10. 1983

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NBA 2K Cover Stars

  1. Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin
  2. Shaquille O’Neal
  3. LeBron James
  4. Kobe Bryant
  5. Kevin Durant
  6. Chris Paul
  7. Allen Iverson
  8. Michael Jordan
  9. Kevin Garnett
  10. Michael Jordan, Larry Bird or Magic Johnson (all are acceptable answers)

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Anagrams - Part 3

  1. GoldenEye
  2. Final Fantasy
  3. Dying Light
  4. World of Warcraft
  5. Grim Fandango
  6. Titanfall
  7. Wolfenstein 3D
  8. Grand Theft Auto
  9. Pac-Man
  10. The Talos Principle

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Collectables

  1. Gold Coins
  2. Gold Rings
  3. Rupees
  4. Power Pellets
  5. Notes
  6. Studs
  7. Lums
  8. Bananas
  9. Bolts
  10. Simoleons

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FIFA Cover Stars - Part 2

  1. David Ginola
  2. Thierry Henry, Alessandro Del Piero, and Ronaldinho
  3. David Beckham
  4. Frank de Boer and Jason McAteer
  5. Sol Campbell
  6. Gareth Bale
  7. Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho
  8. Lionel Messi - bonus point for Joe Hart and Alex Oxlaide-Chamberlain as they featured on certain special editions.
  9. Paul Scholes
  10. Thierry Henry

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Console Manufacturers - Part 3

  1. Nintendo
  2. V-Tech
  3. Phillips OR Magnavox
  4. Fairchild
  5. Fujitsu
  6. Entex
  7. Smith Engineering
  8. Nintendo
  9. Phillips
  10. Coleco

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Name the Publisher - Part 2

  1. Virgin Interactive
  2. Acclaim Entertainment
  3. Touchstone Games
  4. LucasArts
  5. Microsoft Studios
  6. Rockstar Games
  7. Philips Interactive Media
  8. Konami
  9. Nintendo
  10. Sega

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Henchmen

  1. Super Mario Bros.
  2. Kid Icarus
  3. Sonic the Hedgehog
  4. Donkey Kong Country
  5. Gears of War
  6. Resident Evil 2
  7. Metroid Fusion
  8. The Legend of Zelda
  9. Wrecking Crew
  10. Dead Space

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Sidekicks - Part 2

  1. Solid Snake
  2. Cole Phelps
  3. Abe
  4. Ratchet
  5. Donkey Kong
  6. Master Chief
  7. Chell
  8. Megaman
  9. Professor Layton
  10. Link

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Video Game Worlds - Part 2

  1. Super Mario Bros.
  2. Metroid
  3. Dragon Age
  4. The Elder Scrolls
  5. Diablo
  6. Gears of War
  7. Resident Evil
  8. King’s Quest
  9. Dark Souls
  10. Warcraft

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Bestsellers - Part 2

  1. Pokémon X and Y
  2. Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
  3. Sonic the Hedgehog
  4. Super Mario 64
  5. New Super Mario Bros.
  6. Tetris
  7. Super Mario Bros.
  8. Super Mario World
  9. Wii Sports
  10. Super Smash Bros. Melee

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Madden NFL Cover Stars

  1. Richard Sherman
  2. Calvin Johnson
  3. Vince Young o
  4. Donovan McNabb
  5. Peyton Hillis
  6. Drew Brees
  7. Shaun Alexander
  8. Troy Polamalu and Larry Fitzgerald
  9. Brett Favre
  10. Barry Sanders and Adrian Peterson

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Tech Specs - Part 3

  1. Thomson
  2. Gekko
  3. 576i
  4. 3.2GHz
  5. Hitachi (bonus points for SH-4 designation!)
  6. 256x192
  7. PSone
  8. Sixteen
  9. 160x144
  10. 128 bytes

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Console Accessories - Part 2

  1. Nintendo GameCube
  2. NES
  3. Sega Master System
  4. PlayStation 2
  5. Sega Dreamcast
  6. Nintendo Wii
  7. Sega Megadrive
  8. Nintendo Wii
  9. NES
  10. Atari 2600

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Development Studios - Part 2

  1. Namco
  2. DMA Design
  3. Atari Games
  4. Capcom
  5. Automata UK
  6. Llamasoft
  7. Turn 10 Studios
  8. J.K.Greye
  9. Square/Square Enix
  10. Gearbox Software

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Console Manufacturers - Part 4

  1. Capcom
  2. Atari
  3. Sega
  4. Apple/Bandai
  5. Midway
  6. Sony
  7. Boxer8/Ouya
  8. Sega
  9. Atari
  10. Nintendo

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WWE Cover Stars

  1. Randy Orton
  2. Big Show, John Cena and The Miz
  3. Edge, The Undertaker, John Cena, Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio
  4. Rey Mysterio, John Cena, Torrie Wilson, Triple H and Batista
  5. Batista and John Cena
  6. John Cena, The Undertaker and Bobby Lashley
  7. The Rock
  8. John Cena
  9. CM Punk
  10. Triple H and Shawn Michaels

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Game Release Years - Part 3

  1. 1987
  2. 1987
  3. 1987
  4. 1990
  5. 1984
  6. 1984
  7. 1987
  8. 1980
  9. 1984
  10. 1984

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Composers - Part 3

  1. Alexander Brandon
  2. Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori
  3. Andrew Hale & Simon Hale
  4. Hirokazu Tanaka
  5. Michael Land
  6. Trent Reznor
  7. Tamayo Kawamoto
  8. Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
  9. Masaya Matsuura
  10. Jonathan Coulton

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Creators - Part 2

  1. Shigeru Miyamoto
  2. Jeff Minter
  3. Markus “Notch” Persson
  4. The Oliver Twins
  5. Sandy White
  6. Derek Yu
  7. Julian Gollop
  8. Jon Hare
  9. Tomohiro Nishikado
  10. Al Lowe

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Relationships - Part 2

  1. Father & Daughter
  2. Brothers
  3. Uncle & Nephew
  4. Mother & Son
  5. Mother & Son
  6. Brothers
  7. Father & Daughter
  8. Father & Son
  9. Father & Son
  10. Father & Daughter

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Anagrams - Part 4

  1. Half-Life
  2. Metal Gear Solid
  3. Metroid Prime
  4. Red Dead Redemption
  5. Prince of Persia
  6. Pimania
  7. Resident Evil
  8. Portal
  9. Sega Rally
  10. Skyrim

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Villains - Part 2

  1. Sonic the Hedgehog
  2. Pokémon Red/Blue
  3. Grim Fandango
  4. Wolfenstein 3D
  5. Metal Gear Solid
  6. Assassin’s Creed 2
  7. Final Fantasy XIII-2
  8. Crash Bandicoot
  9. Splinter Cell
  10. Golden Axe

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Exclusives - Part 2

  1. Nintendo 3DS
  2. Nintendo 64
  3. Nintendo Game Cube
  4. Super Nintendo
  5. Sega Dreamcast
  6. Playstation 3
  7. Play Station
  8. Virtual Boy
  9. Nintendo Wii
  10. Play Station 2

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Console Years - Part 3

  1. 1985
  2. 2001
  3. 1976
  4. 1977
  5. 1994
  6. 1982
  7. 1996
  8. 1978
  9. 1986
  10. 2013

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Genres - Part 4

  1. Puzzler
  2. RPG
  3. Beat ‘em Up
  4. RTS
  5. Music/Rhythm Game
  6. Music/Rhythm Game
  7. Platform Game
  8. RPG
  9. RPG
  10. Beat ‘em Up

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Franchise Games - Part 2

  1. True
  2. False
  3. False
  4. True
  5. False
  6. True
  7. False
  8. False
  9. True
  10. True

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Powerups

  1. Sonic the Hedgehog
  2. Super Mario Bros.
  3. Contra
  4. Mario Kart
  5. The Legend of Zelda
  6. Donkey Kong Country
  7. Wrecking Crew
  8. Pokemon
  9. Turtles in Time
  10. Altered Beast

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