Hooked On Classics
This 1972 sports title, developed by Nolan Bushnell, used a dial to control two paddles, knocking a ball back and forth.
What is Pong?
A classic 1976 Atari paddle game, in which the goal is to clear colored tiles by bouncing a ball off of them.
What is Breakout?
This mode in the Halo games might pit Red against Blue and is based on the popular outdoor game of the same name.
What is "Capture the Flag?"
At it's peak, publisher, King, reported earnings of more that a million dollars a day from microtransactions from players trying to satisfy their sweet tooth for this confectionary themed "match three" puzzle game.
This 2016 "farm-life simulator" from ConcernedApe is considered by many to be a "spiritual spinoff" of the Harvest Moon franchise.
What is Stardew Valley?
In 1978, Taito released this revolutionary space shooter, in which rows of alien spacecraft descend gradually from the top of the screen.
What is Space Invaders?
From Star Wars to Harry Potter, it might be easier to list movie franchises that didn't have a licensed game in this series, based on the popular Danish toy bricks.
What is Lego?
This Nintendo third-person shooter series pits Inklings against Octolings.
What is Splatoon?
Coming from a series that has been enlisting console and PC players since 2003, this mobile installment of Activision's first person shooter franchise was downloaded over 270 million times in it's first year, 2019.
What is Call of Duty: Mobile?
Animation pioneers such as Ub Iwerks, Harmon & Ising, and the Fleischer Brothers, were major influences on the style of this 2017 "run and gun" title from Studio MDHR.
What is Cuphead?
This 1981 Nintendo platformer features a barrel-tossing ape.
What is Donkey Kong?
A puzzle game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. The details of publishing rights outside the Iron Curtain were cause for much confusion.
What is Tetris?
This 2007 first person shooter by The Valve Corporation was included in The Orange Box and is actually a sequel to a mod of the classic shooter, Quake.
What is Team Fortress 2?
Innersloth's Among Us is a game of deduction, that pits these two groups against each other.
Who are "Crewmates" and "Imposters?"
in this Playdead puzzle-platformer from 2010, a nameless boy searches for his lost sister through a purgatory that resembles the theological condition it is named for.
What is Limbo?
In the 1986 Sega racer, OutRun, a Ferrari Testarossa tours the highways of this continent.
Where is Europe?
the 2011 bestseller, Minecraft, is categorized as part of this genre (shared with GTA) much to the chagrin of 98 pound weaklings and Jedi Padawans.
What are "sandbox" games?
Blizzard Entertainment's 2016 FPS, Overwatch, is set sixty years into the future of a fictionalized Earth, as well as thirty years after this "Crisis."
The "Omnic Crisis?"
Players spend in-game currency to collect their favorite Dragon Ball Z characters, in this "gacha" game from Bandai Namco Entertainment.
What is Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle?
The exploration-based Dead Cells, from Motion Twin and Evil Empire uses procedurally generated levels, which places it in this genre, named for a 1980 game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman.
What is roguelike?
This 1992 edition of Capcom's Street Fighter II was the first to allow bosses as playable characters.
What is Champion Edition?
The 2006 massively multiplayer online hit, Roblox, uses this virtual currency.
What are "Robux?"
This mode of Epic Games' Fortnite, is the only that isn't free to play.
What is "Save the World?"
This British studio developed Sonic Dash for Sega. The second mobile game to star the famous blue hedgehog.
Who are HARDlight?
Team Cherry's Hollow Knight belongs to the "Metroidvania" genre and hosts a cast of insect characters, inhabiting this ruined kingdom.
Where is Hallownest?