I just noticed: if the list of cities IS Rampage, why’d they pick Maui? Apart from scattered hotels, there’s hardly a high rise building ANYWHERE on that island.
Phew, 'bout time I got back to this.
Yes, I figured they’d be really hard for most of you, but anyone who grew up with arcade games should be able to get most of them. (You’d be amazed at the level of knowledge from the guys at VJarmy.com, much less GameFAQs.com.)
Anyway…hints! (I don’t want this thread to die, and you all deserve some.)
A1 - Name doesn’t ring a bell? Hmm…perhaps it’s becuase he’s not actually called that in America. Not officially, anyway. Why not?
A2 - Don’t think of just the supreme world-shaking masterminds. In fact, it wasn’t any of them. That would mess with tradition, and we don’t want that, now, do we? (Nb. Southtown was never officially destroyed.)
A3 - Why did I give Julia, Alex, Goro, Jubei, Chrisite, Hayato, and Dio as examples…and, not, say, Jack, John, Bobby, Lee, Jin, Eagle, or Chaos?
A4 - Come on, what the heck could it have been? “It’s Ansatsuken, not Shotokan”? “Ninja breasts bounce happily”? “You cannot Fatalitify Outworlders?” “Benimaru Nikaido is gay”? (Oops, maybe I said too much. 
) Trust me, this was big. And I don’t mean breasts.
A5 - Antinor and neuroman are both wrong, but not by much. How exactly are the levels set up?
A10 - No, it’s not Rampage (c’mon, distances!), but it was by the same company and did have plenty of destruction. It’s a little obscure because it was never ported to any system and never had a sequel.
A11 - “Wild Dog?” What the heck kind of a game name is Wild Dog? What next, “Capcom Bowling Ball?” “Tecmo Goalposts?” 
SNES stuff:
56 (I think). In F-Zero, what’s the top speed of the Fire Stingray?
57. Super Tennis: the umpire looks an awful lot like a Nintendo franchise character. Which one?
58. Street Fighter II: What button combination was required the pull off the Spinning Piledriver?
Guess some of these are too hard. Not surprised, really…you really had to grow up with arcade games to know them. All right:
A2) Died, or otherwise been obliterated or sucked into oblivion (it’s a fighting game, let’s not split hairs 
) after losing. The only ones who haven’t were Saisyu Kusanagi in '95, Adelheid Bernstein in '03, and Chizuru Kagura in '96 and '03. (It’s hinted a couple times in '03 that Chizuru isn’t in the best of shape, but there’s never any actual confirmation that she dies, and certainly not after losing.)
A3) Both are the names of two fighting game characters based on the same real-life person: Ryoko Tani, a phenomenally successful judoka, and Hanzo Hattori, the legendary Iga ninja. (The Hanzo Hattori from Samurai Warirors is also based on him.) Nb. Jubei Yagyu was based on a Tokugawa-era enforcer; Jubei Yamada was not.
A5) You’ll notice that the levels can be roughly divided into three areas, the outdoors (1 & 2), the big cave (3 & 4), and Lucifer’s castle (5 & 6). Completing level 6 without the shield drops you all the way to the start of the castle…level 5.
A10) None other than faaaabulous…Dover, Delaware. These are the venues for Power Drive, Bally Midway’s classic monster truck game. Nearly all of them are incorporated into the event name somehow: The South Bend 'n Break, The Cincinnati Crinkle, The Juneau Jump, The Raleigh Rally, etc.
A11) Wild Fang, a.k.a. Tecmo Knight.
Here…maybe these might be a little easier.
A14) “WARNING!! THE FINAL HELICOPTER” What game?
A15) Give the first object in this sequence: ____, bananas, doughnut, hamburger, fried egg, corn, shoe, cake, peach, berry, coffee, mushroom, bell, clover, Galaxian, wrapped box.
A16) “Nice going! You’ve completed the four worlds, but you’ve only just begun! Stand by…the show must go on!” The image of the girders slowly fades out…game over, credit scroll. What not even remotely Donkey Kong-related game is this?
A17) 1-4: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th 5-8: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. 9-12: 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th. And so on all the way to 29-32: 8th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Also, you change direction every 4. What game is this…and what other game is this? Also, who’s the only person who can do the entire circuit and win nearly every single time without another player joining in?
A18) Glass Joe, Piston Hurricane, Bald Bull, Kid Quick, Pizza Pasta, Bear Hugger, Dragon Chan, Vodka Drunkenski, Great Tiger. Which of these had the best chance to win the WVBA championship, and which was doomed to never win it?
A19) Two wrestlers.
They’re rumored to be the same person.
Both deny it, of course, but the fact remains that…well, you know.
They are the same person, kinda (just like those twin brothers).
However, it’s possible, and incredibly easy, in fact, to completely debunk the “well, you know” part in the game.
But since it’s also possible to do what Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition made standard for this type of game, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re different.
So in the end, who knows? (Especially since there never was a sequel or spinoff.)
One of the Mario Brothers games? I’ll guess #2.
It’s been a while, but I think Bald Bull would have the best chance, and Glass Joe the worst.
Also, I really want to know the answer to this:
A4) A fighting game, one of a long-running and immensely popular series, is infamous for a simple four-word statement that immediately sparked a major outcry…and an even greater one a few months later when it was proven false. What was the statement?
I’m pretty sure the second rendition of Bald Bull was after Vodka, in Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. Pizza Pasta and Kid Quick were in the arcade version, which sucked. I’ve never heard of Dragon Chan, so I’d guess he’d be even less likely than Glass Joe to win the coveted WVBA title.
Well, it has to be King of Fighters or Street Fighter. I don’t think any other series comes close to these two in longevity or popularity. But for the life of me I can’t think of it.
ETA: Wait wait wait! It’s something like “Poison is a man” right? I don’t know the exact statement, but I just remembered that whole ‘controversy’. Capcom Japan and Capcom USA have wildly differing opinions on Poison’s gender, as I recall.
Choplifter?
Morbo1): How were you able to get an additional 10,000 bonus points upon completing a level of Bump N’ Jump?
Morbo2): In what game were you commanded to “Rise from your grave and rescue my daughter”? Who commanded you?
Morbo3): What was the DOOM cheat code that gave you full ammo, armor and all the keys?
Morbo4): What was the name of the snake in Q*Bert?
M2) Altered Beast? Zeus?
M3) idkfa… never understood that one
Correct on both counts. IDKFA= ID software / Killer Fuckin Ammo
Holy flurking schnit! I got something right!
I always thought I was pretty clued-in vis a vis videogames until this thread…
- Mario, isn’t it? I forget.
- Aw man. It’s a full circle–I think clockwise, but it could be counter-clockwise–on the D+pad, and then… punch? All I know is that I only ever pulled it off once. Maybe. I got one of those ornery moves, at any rate.
I guess these were harder than I figured. A couple clues:
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Some of the items you collect are a jar of eyeballs, a favorite fan, a lamp, and other beloved personal possesions. It’s the 2nd game in a series of three (so far). First two were on SEGA Genesis, third was on Xbox, and apparently added a new character to the iconic duo.
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All four are animal companions that showed up in one or more of the first three games of this series (all three on the SNES, a 4th on N64). Three of them show up in one game together; one of them doesn’t.
correct on 57 and 58!
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I’m guessing the game series is Toejam & Earl, but I never played any of them so no idea what you lure out of hiding.
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WAG: Squitter
Day-um…just how lousy is the arcade scene these days? 
More hints:
A4) No, no, no, not Poison. This wasn’t some ridiculous trivia about some incredibly minor action game flunky, this was big. Furthermore, while Poison’s, uh, ambiguity did raise a minor flap, there wasn’t any specific four-word statement attributed to it.
Think, now. Four words that set a long-running fighting game’s entire reason for being on edge. And a few months later, it turned out to be just a huge red herring. Oh, the raw, unbridled outrage. The flame wars. The I-told-you-so’s. Ring a bell?
I guess you had to be there. Before the upgrade, that is…
A14) Okay, it’s like this…you’re on this urgent mission. You’ve battled impossible odds, but the end is finally in sight. You’re making your big escape. The remaining enemy forces attack as one. Grunts. Special Forces. Commados. Armor. And helicopters…lots and lots of helicopters. You’re wounded and running low on ammo, but vow to fight to the bitter end. The last troop falls…you’re up! The remaining helicopters make their last, desperate assault. Six left. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. You did it! You’ve…what’s that alarm? OH NO!..
What, you don’t remember? I know it was a tough game, but someone had to have made it that far…right?
A16) Did I say “not even remotely Donkey Kong-related”? Sorry…that should’ve been “not even remotely Nintendo-related”. And it shouldn’t be that hard. The main man is someone you’ve know for ages. He’s an icon. And he’s been everywhere…
A18)
“Getting on top is easy; it’s staying on top that’s hard.”
“Every pawn has the marshal’s baton in his knapsack.”
“Once a year, even a vacuum cleaner can shoot like a rifle.”
“You can’t win if you don’t play.”
Trust me, all you need to know is right there.
Answer to 58: No “button combination”. Full circle with the joystick and punch. You had to hit all 8 points really fast or it wouldn’t work.
As bad as that was, it had nothing on the Final Atomic Buster motion, which was TWO circles in succession. To this day, I wonder what the hell Capcom was thinking.
That * is* a button combination on the SNES- each of the eight points on the d-pad has its own bubble switch.
Coily- according to the designer, not as dumb as he appears, just has a learning disability.
Since nobody got my fourth question, I’ll give the answer here:
“What do they say about toasters?”
According to Mario in the semi-obscure Phillips CD-I game Hotel Mario (the cutscenes of which have had a renaissance lately thanks to humorous manipulations on YouTube): “You know what they say- all toasters toast toast.”
Correct! As no one here has answered my Bump N’ Jump question, I’ll answer it,
(Morbo1): How were you able to get an additional 10,000 bonus points upon completing a level of Bump N’ Jump?
Hit no cars. Go through the level without hitting a single other car, which was really difficult: 10,000 bonus points. (Which pretty much gave you first place)
Since everyone’s forgotten about my unanswered questions, I’ll go ahead and answer, for posterity and those who are/were curious:
“Sphere Strike!” (Badrach, Valkyrie Profile)
Tengu (appropriately enough) pretty much answered this one: Tengu Man and Astro Man are the only Mega Man Robot Masters to be repeated in another game that was not a direct remake of the original one they appeared in.
In other words, Sakura : Ryu :: Sean : ??? If thinking of Street Fighter, the answer is obviously Ken.
Hamster - groups of four sometimes appear in Valkyrie Profile, and the buggers are HARD!
There was a Cid in FF2.
There is? I’ve never been able to get very far in II, because the system sucks so bad.
(Or do you mean 2e, aka IVj…SNES, rather than NES.)