Retro Video Games
This Italian Plumber eats mushrooms and can often be found go-karting and playing various sports.
Who is Mario?
Vince Lombardi is the iconic coach for this Midwestern Football team whose fans cheer them on with the chant "Go Pack Go!" I guess he was pretty good, because the Super Bowl trophy is named after him.
Who is/are the Green Bay Packers?
This famous 1804-1806 American expedition mapped the western territories after the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Is this question funny to you? Joe Pesci won an Academy Award for his performance as a bad fellow in this 1990 mob flick.
What is Goodfellas?
Springing one of these sends darts flying or drops you through a false floor.
What is a Trap Trigger?
This Game Designer and Director is best known for creating the Metal Gear Solid series and setting the groundwork for all 3d stealth games. Nowadays he's better known for being best friends with Norman Reedus.
Who is Hideo Kojima?
The homeland of stars such as David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, and Harry Kane, this European country invented football and spread the game until it was the most popular sport in the entire world. They've only won one World Cup, but that's still pretty good, innit?
What is England/UK?
During its reign, pink was used on maps worldwide to shade the territories of this empire, "on which the sun never set."
What is The British Empire?
This Spider-Man star plays a Portuguese missionary to Japan in the film Silence. You might know him better for his role in Hacksaw Ridge or for his love of lasagna. Wait no, that's the wrong one.
Who is Andrew Garfield?
The GM's hidden stash of gold, gems, and magic items waiting at the end of the dungeon.
What is a Treasure Trove?
This Atari game, unlike the film it's based on, was so bad that unsold copies of it allegedly fill a landfill in New Mexico. It also contributed to the near collapse of the gaming industry in the 80s
What is the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game?
He's not from the Netherlands, no, This Norwegian striker won the hearts of Americans with his candid attitude, incredible stature, and wonderful goals, such as the two he scored to knock Brazil out of the World Cup.
Who is Erling Haaland?
This invisible line, surveyed in the 1760s, settled a colonial boundary dispute and later became shorthand for the divide between North and South.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Move aside Gordon Gekko, there's a bigger beast in town. This actor stars along Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie as a stockbroker who more or less gets away with being an economic predator.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
At the table, this is the informal chatter between players that happens outside of character, often derailing the session.
What is Table Talk?
This FromSoftware franchise began in 1997. The player takes the role of a mech-driving mercenary taking jobs on multiple sides of a conflict. Although the franchise went dormant for some time, the sixth entry was released in 2023 to positive critical reviews.
What is Armored Core?
This western Canadian hockey team must've felt like they struck oil when they signed teenage Wayne Gretzky to a long-term contract. He would win the team four Stanley Cups in his time there.
Who are the Edmonton Oilers?
This French Enlightenment mapmaking innovation, developed in the 1600s-1700s, used triangles and precise angles to measure land more accurately than ever before.
What is triangulation?
Talk about a bad date. In Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle takes Betsy to this genre of film and for some reason it's a real turn off for her!
What is a pornographic film?
Instead of "theater of the mind," some tables prefer mapping every wall and obstacle with miniatures on this.
What is Tactical Terrain?
The Brickster has escaped! This 1997 PC game was an early "open-world" game that had the player delivering pizzas and flying a helicopter around this eponymous island. Maybe one day they'll make it into a movie, since everything in its franchise is awesome.
What is Lego Island?
Lebron James is from Akron, a small city about forty miles outside of this city. In 2016 he returned to this team and galloped his way to an NBA Championship.
What is Cleveland, Ohio?
This 1884 European conference divided up an entire continent, drawing straight-line borders that ignored rivers, mountains, and existing kingdoms.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Martin Scorsese plays the character Sykes in this wet and wild adventure film starring Will Smith and Robert De Niro. Somehow this is the only direct reference to Robert De Niro in the Scorsese film section.
What is Shark Tale?
This countdown mechanic — often literal — ramps up tension before a bomb goes off or a ritual finishes.
What is a Ticking Timer?