Monkeying Around
This popular arcade game made by a Japanese company features monkeys collecting bananas, and a bomb as the timer for levels.
What is (Super) Monkey Ball?
In previous entries of the Pokémon series, this breeding-related item only worked if it was held by the female Pokémon in the daycare.
What is the Everstone?
Director Guillermo del Toro cited this game about giant monsters as "a masterpiece" and a key part of his directorial influence, despite his films featuring a lack of climbing and horses.
What is Shadow of the Colossus?
Monster Hunter: World divides its meals into three categories for three main statistical boosts, so it's only natural that this kind of food would be the one to boost the player's Attack stat.
What is meat?
This game has been referenced in the West since 2008's Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but despite arriving on the GameBoy Advance in 2006, it has only ever been released in Japan.
What is Mother 3?
A new member of the DK family takes on an adventure of learning in this educational title for the NES.
What is Donkey Kong Jr. Math?
Apart from one scene, this Pokémom does not appear alongside her own son, despite the two of them being leaders of the same gym.
Who is Melony?
This agile fighter kaiju with a distinctly Western name (post-localization) was featured only in the Wii version of 2007's Godzilla: Unleashed.
Who is King Caesar?
Craftable only into elixirs, these Breath of the Wild cooking items come in two distinct varieties: Hot-Footed and Tireless.
What are frogs?
In Nintendo's Japan-exclusive Captain Rainbow, the main character Nick is greeted by a decidedly more portly version of this classic Nintendo character.
Who is Little Mac?
This number spells the end for your Donkey Kong high score, because you barely have any time to complete the stage when this number appears on the level counter, leading to a "kill screen."
What is 22?
This Pokémom's name in Japanese, Hanako, meaning flower child, is believed to be the inspiration for her English name, which sounds like a flower native to Mexico and Central America.
Who is Delia Ketchum?
Originally released in the west under a different name, this series depicts the events surrounding "The Great War of 2017," in which humans are under siege from giant arthropods.
What is Earth Defense Force?
No, this isn't a chain. Joker's keeper Sojiro is the sole owner of this kind of café in the fifth installment of the Shin Megami Tensei spinoff, Persona.
What is a coffee shop?
Hudsonsoft, known for Bomberman, also produced DreamMix TV World Fighters, a Japan-exclusive crossover platform fighter featuring this shape-altering robot hero.
Who is Optimus Prime?
First introduced in Monster Hunter Online, this ape-like lone species of a fanged beast with a fiery attitude is likened to the other primate monsters by its title of "Flame Lion."
What is Flame Blangonga?
Lusamine is the founder of the prestigious Aether Foundation, but this trainer-oriented service is run by the Pokémom's husband, Mohn.
What is the Poké Pelago?
This video game movie is often joked about being an origin story for Jeffery Dean Morgan's character Negan in The Walking Dead, as his characters are very similar. Perhaps the film prepared him for Tekken.
What is Rampage?
Who is Prompto?
While the anime he comes from may have been dubbed into English, this mustachioed character was playable in the Japan-exclusive Jump Ultimate Stars, alongside his narcissistic orange friend.
Who is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo?
This elemental primate is the only one of Unova's trio of monkey Pokémon not to learn a move that matches its elemental affinity at level 16.
What is Pansear?
Pokémon Ranger Timmy is breeding Ponytas together in the Wild Area. He equips his male Galarian Ponyta with a Destiny Knot, and his female Kantonian Ponyta with an Everstone to pass down its nature. However, Timmy is surprised when this form of Ponyta hatches from the egg.
What is Kantonian Ponyta?
The Apple II was home to 1986's Movie Monster Game featuring Godzilla surrounded by knockoff monsters like the Glog, Mechatron, and the mysterious Meringue Man, who mirrored this patently American pseudo-kaiju from a film two years prior to the game's release.
Who is the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?
The most popular game in its series, this modern classic JRPG which sold over 10 million copies released Pepsi-branded cups with its characters on them in 1997.
What is Final Fantasy VII?
This 1990 Hideo Kojima title inspired by the first Japanese man on the moon had its localization canceled due to technical issues. However, in 2009, western fans translated the point-and-click adventure game to give others the chance to see Kojima's unique take on the American buddy cop dynamic.
What is Policenauts?