Indie Darlings
This indie game went on to become the best selling video game of all time.
What is Minecraft?
This game is known for containing the worlds very first "Easter Egg", which was a result of a developer wanting to hide his name in the game due to Atari refusing to credit its creators publicly.
What is Adventure?
Considered one of the worst games of all time which fated the game to have hundreds of thousands of copies buried in the Nevada Desert.
What is ET?
Before writing the bestselling sci-fi novel adapted into a film starring Ryan Gosling, this author worked as a programmer on Warcraft II.
Who is Andy Weir?
Originally invented as criticism against capitalism, The Landlord's Game showed players how land monopolies destroy the economy and bankrupt tenants. Decades later, the mechanics were copied and rebranded as the game you know today.
What is Monopoly?
This game is one of the most community funded projects of all time, yet has no actual release date for the past 15 years.
What is Star Citizen?
Originally created by a Microsoft Intern in order to secretly train new users how to drag and drop with a computer mouse, this game went on to be one of the most used games/software on Windows devices in the 90's.
What is Solitaire? or what is Klondike?
Released in 2006, this purely cosmetic $2.50 add-on for The Elder Scrolls IV sparked outrage and is widely credited with kick starting micro transactions in games.
What is Horse Armor?
After co-founding Atari and creating Pong, this entrepreneur took his electronic gaming concept into the restaurant industry by founding this iconic family entertainment and pizza chain in 1977.
What is Chuck E. Cheese?
This has been played all around the world for thousands of years dating back to 6th century India. Todd Howard was also in a club for this game.
What is Chess?
To fund the expanded vision of this 1930s rubber-hose cartoon boss-rush game, two Canadian brothers famously quit their jobs and remortgaged their homes.
What is Cuphead?
The developers behind this game were previous DigiPen students, before a major company came by and funded their project.
What is Portal?
Minigames in this 1998 Nintendo 64 party game caused so many friction burns and blisters from rotating the analog stick that Nintendo agreed to issue protective padded gloves to affected players.
What is Mario Party?
Before inventing the Doom and Quake game engines, this id Software co-founder spent much of his spare time and wealth building Armadillo Aerospace, a company that aimed to achieve suborbital space tourism.
Who is John Carmack?
First created in Ancient India, Moksha Patam was a game that taught the Hindu philosophy of Karma and Kama, or destiny and desire. It is still played today by millions of children under a new modern name.
What is Snakes and Ladders? Or Chutes and Ladders?
Solitary developer Zeekerss created this wildly popular 2023 co-op horror hit about collecting scrap for a corporate entity—having honed his game design skills strictly by making custom games in Roblox since he was a teenager.
What is Lethal Company?
What is the sequence for the Konami Code?
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
Promoted as the first console capable of rendering stereoscopic 3D graphics, this console launched back in 1995 but was a commercial failure even after retail price drops. Only selling 770,000 units, with a small selection of 22 games.
What is the Virtual Boy?
This SimCity and The Sims creator used his background in complex systems simulation to co-found the "Long Now Foundation," a non-profit project building a 10,000-year mechanical clock inside a mountain in Texas.
Who is Will Wright?
This classic game holds the title for hosting the first ever world championship of any sport, which took place in 1873.
What is pool? or what is Billiards?
Originally created in just two weeks as a joke prototype for an internal game jam, this chaotic 2014 physics simulator became an unexpected viral hit after its trailer blew up on YouTube.
What is Goat Simulator?
Who is Claude Comair?
This android based microconsole raised over $8.6 million from over 63,000 backers with a goal to "Revolutionize Console Gaming". However, it launched underpowered, outdated, and with poor quality controllers and hardware.
What is the Ouya?
This lead designer on Deus Ex and System Shock retired from active game studio direction to become a full-time professor and director of the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy at the University of Texas at Austin, training future industry leaders.
Who is Warren Spector?
What is the earliest known gaming component? (That we have archeological evidence of)
What is a Die?