Platformers
What is Celeste?
On April 4th, 1999, this man arrived home from college to see his hometown of Frankton
Who is Alex Eggleston?
This series features Samus as the main character
What is Metroid?
The 3DS was released this year, with titles like Mario Kart 7, Ocarina of Time 3D, and Super Mario 3D Land also releasing on it that same year
What is 2011?
This game features an Italian man trying to reach to top of a large tower to stop the evil Pizzaface
What is Pizza Tower?
This platforming series is associated with the joke that it made a bad transition from 2D to 3D due to having many critically negative 3D games
What is Sonic the Hedgehog?
Super Lesbian Animal RPG features 4 main characters, being these animal species
What are fox, bunny/rabbit, cow, and tiger?
This game was the original version of Mario 2/USA that had Mario sprites thrown into it to act as a Mario game for western audiences.
What is Doki Doki Panic?
This year was the year Ori and the Blind Forest was made.
What is 2015?
Super Mario Bros. Wonder featured this many playable characters, the most in any mainline Mario game
What is 12?
This boss in Cuphead is set in the sky against a woman who can turn into the moon.
Who is Hilda Berg?
This visual style was created by Square Enix for Octopath Traveler and has since been used in Triangle Strategy, Octopath Traveler 2, and Live A Live
What is HD-2D?
This game was Nintendo's first game on mobile devices
What is Miitomo?
Dr. Mario 64 was released in this year, acting as the last first-party game on the N64
What is 2001?
While Pikmin 4 is the fourth entry in the mainline series, this many Pikmin games actually exist
What is 6?
Counting PC as 1 platform and not counting PS5 and Xbox Series, Shovel Knight released on this many platforms
What is 8?
While the Zelda series has been debated for its legitimacy as an RPG, this Zelda game fully features experience points.
What is Zelda 2?
This "year" was one of Nintendo's worst years financially, with them losing nearly $500 million due to the Wii U
What is the Year of Luigi/2013?
1996's Kirby Super Star was remastered on DS this year
What is 2008?
Dead Cells received a DLC this year, a crossover between it and this legendary 80s gaming series
What is Castlevania?
Klonoa has received this many games in his series
What is 9?
Toby Fox, most well-known for Undertale and Deltarune, started his game-making career with this fan game, controversial for its use of slurs
What is the Earthbound Halloween Hack?
Not counting remakes, this Pokemon generation was the worst-selling generation of all time
What is Gen 6?
Considered the first big video game, Pong was released in arcades this year
What is 1972?
This legendary musician both originally composed and remastered the music to Super Mario RPG
Who is Yoko Shimamura?