Console Deep Cuts
This Nintendo handheld became an instant classic despite its monochrome screen, with its launch lineup featuring the addictive puzzle game Tetris and helping turn this portable system into one of the best-selling consoles of its generation.
What is the Game Boy?
This 1996 Blizzard classic sent players beneath the cursed town of Tristram into a dark world of demons, dungeons, and randomized loot, establishing the action-RPG series that would become one of PC gaming's biggest franchises.
What is Diablo?
This hit Netflix survival series places hundreds of desperate contestants within a mysterious, game-like environment, where familiar childhood games are transformed into deadly competitions with enormous consequences for those who fail.
What is Squid Games?
As one of the most recognizable villains in gaming, this longtime rival of Mario has repeatedly challenged the famous plumber, often serving as the central antagonist behind schemes to conquer kingdoms and cause trouble throughout the franchise.
Who is Bowser?
Designed by Elizabeth Hargrave, this award-winning strategy game invites players to build thriving wildlife preserves by attracting a variety of birds, carefully managing resources, and combining unique bird abilities to create powerful interactions.
What is Wingspan?
This iconic Nintendo character would go on to become the one of the most recognized video game characters, but when he first appeared in Donkey Kong, he was known by this simple name before Nintendo gave him the name Mario.
Who is Jumpman?
This Valve gaming platform became the dominant digital storefront for PC games, with its name referring to a force associated with heated water rather than the mechanical imagery featured in its recognizable logo.
What is Steam?
As one of Team Rocket's most recognizable members, this Pokémon character travels alongside Jessie and their Pokémon partner, repeatedly devising schemes in hopes of finally capturing Pikachu.
Who is James?
At the beginning of the original Pokémon adventure, players must choose between a Grass-type, a Fire-type, and this Water-type Pokémon, each offering a different path through the Kanto region.
Who is Squirtle?
This Nintendo 64 controller's unusual three-pronged design was built around the console's analog stick, which was particularly important for this 1996 launch title.
What is Super Mario 64?
In StarCraft, the Protoss rely on this basic resource to construct their powerful units and structures, with Zealots among the forces that require it before joining the battlefield.
What are minerals?
In this acclaimed animated series set amid the tensions between Piltover and Zaun, Jinx and this other sister are torn apart during childhood, only to grow into very different lives and eventually find themselves caught on opposing sides of a growing conflict.
Who are Vi?
Appearing throughout the adventures of Hyrule, this legendary artifact is divided into three sacred pieces, each representing one of the virtues of Power, Wisdom, and Courage.
What is the Triforce?
This Sony console helped usher in the era of high-definition gaming by making Blu-ray its primary game format, while also serving as one of the most affordable Blu-ray players when it launched this platform.
What is the PlayStation 3?
This Blizzard MMORPG transformed the world of online gaming after its 2004 release, bringing millions of players to Azeroth where they could pledge their allegiance to either the Alliance or the Horde.
What is World of Warcraft?
Based on a critically acclaimed video game series, this HBO adaptation follows a hardened survivor and a young girl as they journey across a post-apocalyptic United States, navigating the ruins of civilization and a world transformed by a devastating fungal infection.
What is The Last of Us?
Developed by the Forerunners, this powerful weapon unleashes a concentrated beam of energy capable of tearing through heavily armored targets, though its devastating potential is balanced by scarce ammunition.
What is the Spartan Laser?
This Sega console was ahead of its time with online gaming capabilities built directly into the system, allowing players to connect to the internet without purchasing a separate modem.
What is Dreamcast?
This Valve classic introduced players to the theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman, whose routine experiment at the Black Mesa Research Facility triggers a catastrophic event and opens the door to a new era of first-person shooters.
What is Half-Life?
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Inspired by the dark world of a classic video game franchise, this animated series follows a disgraced monster hunter and his unlikely allies as they unite to confront the forces of Dracula and defend humanity from an impending supernatural threat.
What is Castlevania?
Known for appearing throughout the long-running Final Fantasy series, this recurring creature has taken many different forms over the years, while frequently appearing as a powerful summon to aid the player in battle.
Who is Bahamut?
This Microsoft console broke from the norm by including an internal hard drive, allowing players to save their games without relying on the removable storage devices that had become standard on previous consoles.
What is a memory card?
Known for its elemental weapons and a unique firing mechanic that regenerates ammunition, this corporation produces the iconic weaponry associated with Siren Lilith in the original Borderlands.
What is Maliwan?
In this 2015 science-fiction comedy, classic arcade characters come to life and attack Earth after an alien civilization misinterprets footage of old video games as a declaration of war, forcing a group of former arcade champions to defend the planet.
What is Pixels?
Often turning the tide of a race in an instant, this powerful item is especially feared by players in the lead, as it can give racers near the back of the pack a dramatic advantage over those ahead.
What is the Bullet Bill?
This console was developed under the codename “Project Revolution,” promising a new approach to motion-controlled gaming before the company gave it the short name that would become one of its most successful systems.
What is the Wii?
This 1994 strategy game from Bullfrog Productions challenges players to construct and manage an underground dungeon while attracting creatures to serve their evil lair.
What is Dungeon Keeper?
Known for bringing a charismatic yet short-lived prince to life in Game of Thrones, this actor later took on the role of a hardened survivor navigating a fungal-ravaged America in HBO's The Last of Us.
Who is Pedro Pascal?
After beginning as an unlikely companion to Chell, this eccentric personality core takes control of the Aperture Science facility, leading to a chaotic series of events that ultimately sends Chell into space.
Who is Wheatley?
This Rare-developed launch title helped introduce the Xbox 360 era with third-person shooting, transforming vehicles, and large open environments, while serving as a prequel to one of Rare’s most recognizable first-person shooter franchises.
What is Perfect Dark Zero?
Released in the early 1990s, this landmark PC title from id Software helped bring fast-paced, first-person combat into the mainstream, laying much of the groundwork for the genre that would dominate computer gaming for years to come.
What is DOOM?
From portraying hot-tempered Billy Butcher fighting superheroes to quick witted and sarcastic Dr. McCoy in Star Trek, this actor plays this action star turned combatant to save Earthrealm from the clutches of Shao Kahn.
Who is Karl Urban?
Serving as the command center for humanity's fight against threats across the galaxy, this iconic spacecraft carries a name inspired by a figure from ancient biblical tradition and serves as Commander Shepard's home during the Mass Effect trilogy.
What is the Normandy?
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This Sega Saturn cult classic brought together characters from across Sega's fighting and racing franchises, giving players an unusually large roster in an arcade-style fighter that was released exclusively in Japan in 1996.
What is Fighters Megamix?
This remote volcanic island in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind serves as the homeland of the Dunmer, featuring the imposing Red Mountain and numerous sites sacred to the Tribunal Temple.
What is Vvardenfell?
This actress has been a secret superstar the past years providing the voice to one of the most popular characters in League of Legends TV show to being on-screen playing a uplifting, but clueless Vault dweller in Fallout.
What is Ella Purnell?
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Shrouded in mystery throughout the history of Tamriel, this ancient race is associated with the creation of the Dwemer's intricate automatons and is believed to have vanished following the events surrounding the Heart of Lorkhan.
Who are the Dwemer?
Released for the original PlayStation in 1999, this bizarre action-adventure game places players in the role of a young boy armed with a transforming alien-like weapon, as he explores strange environments and battles enemies in an attempt to uncover the secrets of his unusual world.
What is The Adventures of Alundra?
This early 1990s PC shooter from id Software combined fast-paced combat with multiplayer deathmatches, unconventional movement techniques, and a dark, otherworldly aesthetic that would go on to influence countless shooters.
What is Quake?
In the English-language version of this Netflix animated series, this actor provides the voice of a young Night City resident whose ambitions lead him away from an ordinary life and toward the dangerous world of cybernetic mercenaries.
Who is Zach Aguilar?
Created as part of a secretive cloning project involving one of the military world's most legendary soldiers, this operative would go on to become the central figure in the events surrounding the Shadow Moses incident.
Who is Solid Snake?