# Video game quiz - how many can you get? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 16, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665 "2010-03-16T16:17:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/1 "2010-03-16T16:17:09Z")
Title says it all. [The quiz](http://www.arcadeaid.com/challengingstage/quiz.htm) is set up as a cool looking old-school isometric city where different video game titles are hidden in various visual clues. As far as I can see the titles range from the very old to quite recent ones. I managed to solve 35 (of 56). How many can you get? ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/2 "2010-03-16T18:17:28Z")
Hi Pan. I only got 16 right. Great job! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/3 "2010-03-16T18:26:18Z")
Stupid image is blocked by my work;s filter for some reason…I’ll have to wait to try at home. Is it similar to that artwork of a city with lots of band names hidden in the pictures from a few years ago? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/4 "2010-03-16T18:28:37Z")
1. Where are the answers? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/5 "2010-03-16T18:39:21Z")
I could get about 40 before I gave up. That’s not to say I heard of all the games I guessed, I got a good number just based on the image. If you win you get to make an ID and subscribe to a snail-mail post news letter about the new Tron. Some of them are really obscure, and some of them don’t have the greatest riddles. Link to a blog with the answers: [http://www.nerdcore.de/wp/2010/03/14/tron-legacy-videogame-quiz/](http://www.nerdcore.de/wp/2010/03/14/tron-legacy-videogame-quiz/) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/6 "2010-03-16T18:43:11Z")
28, so far 1. Call Of Duty 2. Out Run 3. Frogger 4. Rampage 5. worms 6. punch out 7. burger time 8. vanguard 9. Minesweeper 10. Stargate 11. star castle 12. Dragonball Z 13. Halo 14. Tron 15. Burnout 16. R type 17. Missile command 18. Food Fight 19. Golden axe 20. Double Dragon 21. Paperboy 22. guitar hero 23. Asteroids 24. Dig dug 25. Goldeneye 26. Sea Wolf 27. Mousetrap 28. Metal Slug Some of those are not games I’ve ever heard of, I just guessed the namefrom the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/7 "2010-03-16T19:14:05Z")
I’ve got most of the ones **Peter Morris** got. Apart from no. 8 (d’oh!), 13, and 43 (double d’oh!). In addition I’ve found: 1. Home Run 2. 720 3. NBA Jam 4. Tiger Heli 5. Space Ace 6. Silent Hill 7. Bomberman 8. Fallout 9. Spy Hunter 10. Star Fox I will not look at **Jragon** ’s spoiler but it annoys me that I can’t guess #41. It looks like it’s Donkey Kong? - but it isn’t. Argh. and **bouv** - it looks sorta like [this](http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wp-content/uploads/shop/shop_tokyo_fullsize.png). ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/8 "2010-03-16T19:20:54Z")
> [@Panurge](#): > > I will not look at **Jragon** ’s spoiler but it annoys me that I can’t guess #41. It looks like it’s Donkey Kong? - but it isn’t. Argh. [spoiler]Donkey Konga It’s a spin-off rhythm game in a sort of “Taiko Drum Master” ripoff sort of way.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/9 "2010-03-16T19:46:42Z")
I got 11, then for some reason the page wouldn’t accept correct answers anymore. Blah, I was doing well too. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/10 "2010-03-16T20:18:06Z")
I’m at 28 so far, probably half of which I got just by typing what I saw in the picture, but that only goes so far (apparently there is no game called “Rocket Punctuation”) Now I’m mildly obsessed with getting them all. Damn you OP. I was having a perfectly productive evening. 😉 ETA: That stupid one that _isn’t_ Donkey Kong is driving me bloody bonkers! :smack: :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/11 "2010-03-16T20:33:38Z")
> [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](#): > > I’m at 28 so far, probably half of which I got just by typing what I saw in the picture, but that only goes so far (apparently there is no game called “Rocket Punctuation”) Hint: Read the two punctuations out loud. Now do faster. Repeat until you get it. That particular riddle was brilliant once I figured it out. > [@](#): > > ETA: That stupid one that _isn’t_ Donkey Kong is driving me bloody bonkers! :smack: :smack: :smack: Read my spoiler above, it’s really close and unless you’re aware of all the minor spinoffs of the franchise you’ll probably never get it. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@A\_Spoonful\_of\_Awesome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Spoonful_of_Awesome)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/12 "2010-03-16T20:47:27Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Hint: Read the two punctuations out loud. Now do faster. Repeat until you get it. That particular riddle was brilliant once I figured it out. Damn, I can’t believe I didn’t put that together! Brilliant indeed. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Read my spoiler above, it’s really close and unless you’re aware of all the minor spinoffs of the franchise you’ll probably never get it. Ok, seriously??? How many people could’ve possibly heard of _THAT?_ They did that on purpose, the bastards. They knew we’d all get stuck on the DK. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/13 "2010-03-16T20:50:48Z")
Oh, I just got the one with the pink cadillac. defender ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/14 "2010-03-16T21:03:31Z")
What is it with things in soup? There’s a guy with a gun in a bowl of soup, and a cobra in another one. I’ve got 31 so far, btw. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/15 "2010-03-16T21:19:14Z")
6, but then again I don’t know anything about video games aside from a few names I remember from commercials (Double Dragon, Dragonball Z, Call of Duty) and back in the arcade (Frogger, TRON). I just guessed on Mousetrap. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/16 "2010-03-16T21:30:51Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s a guy with a gun in a bowl of soup Where’s that? I don’t see it. If you mean #46, top right corner, I think that’s a pie. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/17 "2010-03-16T21:46:57Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > What is it with things in soup? There’s a guy with a gun in a bowl of soup, and a cobra in another one. I’ve got 31 so far, btw. A hint/clarification on one of those: The guy with the gun is standing in a pie, not soup. ---
**Author:** ![Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambihelical_Hexnut)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/18 "2010-03-17T02:14:59Z")
27 out of 56 for me #1 - Call of Duty #2 - Outrun #3 - Frogger #4 - Home Run #6 - NBA Jam #9 - Worms #10 - Punch Out #11 - Burger Time #17 - Star Castle #18 - Golden Tee #20 - Halo #22 - Tron #30 - Smash TV #31 - Silent Hill #33 - R Type #35 - Food Fight #36 - Timesplitters #37 - Bomberman #38 - Golden Axe #39 - Double Dragon #43 - Paperboy #45 - Guitar Hero #48 - Asteroids #49 - Dig Dug #53 - Star Fox #54 - Mousetrap #56 - Metal Slug ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/19 "2010-03-17T02:24:55Z")
No 23 and 50 [spoiler] 23) Crossbow. (you can see that one of them is carrying a violin) 1. Popeye [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-game-quiz-how-many-can-you-get/532665/20 "2010-03-17T02:31:44Z")
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