How well do you know modern video game history?

The last video game history quiz brought us into the 90s. Since that is pretty close to where games are now, I figured we would go ahead and hop into one more history quiz before we get back to the personality ones.





1.) The late 80s and early 90s saw the evolution of the adventure game. They grew pictures and ditched the text for mouse pointing and clicks. LucasArts entered the graphic adventure fray with this game:

Sam and Max Hit the Road
 King's Quest
 Maniac Mansion
 Monkey Island
 Street Fighter



2.) LucasArts went on to make lots of graphic adventure games throughout the 90s. All of them up to 1998 were built with what would go on to be one of the most well known game engines of all time. It was called what?

Unreal
 SCUMM
 MUD
 Spring
 CryEngine
 World Builder
 Street Fighter



3.) The 90s was a time of heavy competition for video game consoles. In fact, it was so fierce that marketing was less than ...honest. While Sega and Nintendo were at each other's throats, this console tried to enter the battle by marketing itself as the first 16-bit system...even though it had an 8-bit processor.

NeoGeo
 TurboGrafx-16
 3DO
 Jaguar
 Tiger
 Intellivision
 Street Fighter



4.) The answer to the previous question did not do particularly well in North America, but the addition of this peripheral gave them enough success to extend its life into the late 90s.

32x cartridge enhancer
 Racing wheel
 Arcade joystick
 CDRom Addon
 Street Fighter



5.) This generation saw one console that was the first home experience that could match arcade quality since pong. Unfortunately it was also vastly more expensive than all others. What console was this?

Neo-Geo
 Jaguar
 3DO
 SNES
 Street Fighter



6.) Quick to jump onto the post 16-bit era, Atari released the first console of the next generation. What was it's name?

PSX
 Neo-Geo
 Jaguar
 3DO
 Street Fighter



7.) The first two consoles of this generation failed, but three more hopped up in their place. One of these started as a failed bid as an addon to the SNES, but would go on to dominate the generation.

Sega Saturn
 PC-FX
 3DO
 Playstation
 Jaguar
 Street Fighter



8.) Nintendo tried leaping into the next generation in 1995 with a console that failed incredibly quickly with only 22 games on the market.

N64
 Virtual Boy
 Jaguar
 Tiger
 TurboGrafx-16
 Street Fighter



9.) This game became the first title to popularize rhythm games in 1996.

beatmania
 DDR
 Guitar Hero
 Track and Field
 PaRappa the Rapper
 Street Fighter



10.) Once Nintendo finally got into the generation with a successful system, it released several games that would define genres. One of these, GoldenEye 007, was a first person shooter that created several concepts that would become staples in the genre. What was one of these?

Headshots
 Strafing
 Vehicles
 Targeting assist
 Proximity weapons
 Street Fighter



11.) This generation also saw the relase of the game that is widely considered to be the most critically acclaimed game of all time. What was it?

FFVII
 Super Mario 64
 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
 Sonic Adventure
 The Sims
 Street Fighter



12.) While 3D was the primary focus of the generation in the console market, mobile phones started into the gaming market when Nokia installed this very primitive game on their phones in 1998.

Snake
 Tic Tac Toe
 Checkers
 Chess
 Solitaire
 Street Fighter