Arcade Game by Villain
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Movies Based on Games
There's a club for that?
21st Century Fun
100
In this game, a player controls a small insect-like Bug Blaster, which moves around the bottom area of the screen with a trackball and fires small darts at the title villain.
What is Centipede?
100
This game involves using a slingshot to launch "mad" avian creatures at pigs stationed in or around various structures, with the goal of destroying all the pigs on the playing field.
What is Angry Birds?
100
This 2012 American military science fiction action film is loosely based on the board game of the same name, in which the objective is to sink your opponent's boats.
What is Battleship?
100
The members of Pan Pacific Guppy Association, which is for those who enjoy breeding "the finest quality show guppies in California," engage in this type of hobby, which involves the promotion, breeding, and appreciation of animals.
What is fancy/animal fancy?
100
This show, American _____ Warrior (based on a Japanese show, Sasuke) has caused an explosion in the popularity of athletic challenges involving obstacle courses.
What is ninja?
200
Blinky (red), Pinky (pink), Inky (cyan), and Clyde (orange) are the villains in this maze chase game.
What is Pac-Man?
200
This popular arcade game where two players play against each other on a low-friction table with two strikers and a puck involves the puck being slightly suspended above the surface of the table.
What is air hockey?
200
This 2010 movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan is based on a game first developed in 1989, in which the main character must fight and find his way through a series of dungeons to rescue the princess.
What is Prince of Persia?
Bonus: What is the full title of the movie?
200
A club devoted to these, which include stratus, cirrus, stratocumulus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus types, states that they are "nature's poetry."
What are clouds?
They are called "The Cloud Appreciation Society," and they have a manifesto: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/manifesto/
200
A personal, or hobby, version of this device is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed for the mass market--and they've become quite popular!
What are drones?
300
In this game, the originally unnamed character, who was later called Jumpman, then Mario, must rescue a damsel in distress, Pauline, from the titular giant ape.
What is Donkey Kong?
300
This (no longer existing) American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney has a name that comes from a Japanese word that means "about to win," like a checkmate in chess.
What is Atari?
300
This movie franchise starring Milla Jovovich follows stories about biological weapons and viral incidents.
What is Resident Evil?
300
A society for the racing of the riding version of these machines claimed that its popularity was growing "faster than crabgrass."
What are lawn mowers?
They also have a blog called "The Cutting Edge."
300
This is a game in which a team of players discover clues, solve puzzles, and accomplish tasks in one or more spaces in order to accomplish a specific goal in a limited amount of time--the goal is often to escape from the site of the game.
What is an Escape Room?
400
Within the shooter game genre, this game was the first and set the template for the shoot 'em up genre--the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser to earn as many points as possible.
What is Space Invaders?
400
This party game involves combining cards, one with a noun and one with an adjective...hint: it's certainly not "oranges to oranges"!
What is Apples to Apples?
400
A 1985 movie based on this murder mystery board game includes characters such as Col. Mustard, Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, and Mrs. White.
What is Clue?
400
The North American Mycological Association is dedicated to the study and appreciation of these, which include mushrooms, morels, truffles, molds, and related organisms.
What are fungi?
The New York Mycological Society was founded in 1962 by famous composer John Cage and a few other mushroom-loving friends.
400
This process of making solid objects from a digital file was once only available to a select few, but has now become accessible to many who do craft and design projects from home!
What is 3D printing?
500
This film stars John C. Reilly as a gigantic but soft-hearted man who is the villain of the fictional arcade game Fix-It Felix Jr.
What is Wreck-It Ralph?
500
This adventure reality game show involves teams of two people rushing around the world in competition with other teams.
What is The Amazing Race?
500
This fantasy children's book (and later, movie) centers on a supernatural board game that releases jungle-based hazards upon its players with every turn they take.
What is Jumanji?
500
A British association dedicated to the appreciation of these circular intersections is led by a president called the "Lord of the Rings."
What are roundabouts?
500
Recently, this sport which involves tossing a heaving weapon at a bullseye has become popular in bars--perhaps not the best combination!
What is axe throwing?