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In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, it's the only card you need.
What is "Ace of Spades?"
This company’s Project Reality hardware, incorporated into the N64, made that system a real powerhouse of consumer electronics.
What is Silcone Graphics, Inc.?
This 1990 Game Boy puzzle game, a port of an earlier Sharp MZ-700 game, appears to be the first to feature a time-rewind mechanic.
What is Catrap?
He's the protagonist of The Curse of Monkey Island.
Who is Guybrush Threepwood?
The original Vs. Capcom game was, of course, X-Men vs. Street Fighter. While the Street Fighter sprites were reused from Alpha 2, the X-Men were pulled from this arcade game (except for Rogue, Gambit, and Sabertooth, who were new).
What is X-Men: Children of the Atom?
This 2006 Buena Vista puzzle game features music videos from Missy Elliot, Gwen Stefani, and Hoobastank, among others.
What is Lumines II?
This console was touted by its platform holder as being “64-bit,” which is interesting considering its Motorola "Jerry" CPU and “Tom” GPU only execute 32-bit instructions. EGM published a scathing editorial at the time, commenting that, by extension, the Saturn must be 112-bits.
What is the Atari Jaguar?
Actors Shawn Ashmore (X-Men), Lance Reddick (John Wick), and Dominic Monaghan (Lord of the Rings) play important roles in this game in which players try to repair a “fracture in time.”
What is Quantum Break?
Sid Meier’s Pirates (!) was a revolutionary video game in 1987 that was ported to pretty much everything available at the time but this was its original home.
What is the Commodore 64?
It was the first of the Vs. Capcom games to use fully-rendered 3D characters.
What is Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars?
Players can combine bits and pieces from many different licensed songs using NFC cards and a smartphone in this musical mashup game from Harmonix.
What is DropMix?
One accessory of the Bandai WonderSwan is the WonderWave which could transfer data between two WonderSwan systems and, strangely enough, was compatible with this poorly-supported Sony PlayStation accessory that never left Japan.
Although two of them didn’t make it into the sequel, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions let players take control of these four Spider-Men.
Who are Amazing, 2099, Noir, and Ultimate?
This early swashbuckling Wii puzzle game involved searching for treasures and ringing a magical monkey like a bell to transform enemies into usable objects (full title, please).
What is Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbados' Treasure?
This was the only game of the Vs. Capcom series to appear on the NeoGeo Pocket Color.
What is SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millenium?
This is the name of the in-game radio station that played such hits as “Africa,” “Sister Christian,” and “Broken Wings” in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
What is Emotion 98.3?
One of the Dreamcast’s greatest achievements was being able to run nearly identical ports of certain arcade games because the Dreamcast shares the same technology as this SEGA arcade system board.
What is NAOMI?
Don’t forget this 2013 game for PS3 and Xbox 360 in which players collect, replay, and manipulate people’s memories. This central mechanic was simplified and brought forward to the developer’s next game, Life is Strange.
What is Remember Me?
After being booted out of Mario’s castle in Six Golden Coins, Wario travels to Kitchen Island intending to raid the treasure stash of this band of pirates, led by the fearsome Captain Syrup.
Who/what are the Brown Sugar Pirates?
Who are Ryu and Chun-Li?
On April 2, 2013, Harmonix released this song, its final piece of DLC for Rock Band, until the reveal of Rock Band 4 two years later.
What is Don McLean's "American Pie?"
This nursery rhyme-themed pinball game, introduced by Gottlieb in 1947, revolutionized the industry by being the first to include player-controlled flippers.
What is Humpty Dumpty?
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time both feature a device with this name. In the former, it’s a powerful energy weapon; in the latter, it’s a staff used by Clank to repair broken machines.
What is the Chronosceptor?
I suspect that C.J. was starting to sweat, thinking there wouldn’t be a Sea of Thieves question in a category about pirates. Fear not; here’s your freebie.
Donkey Kong County 2’s pirate theme was influenced by this man’s fascinating with pirates. Today, he’s the creative director of Sea of Thieves.
Who is Gregg "Grogg" Mayles?
The special edition of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom came with an arcade stick controller developed by this company.
What is Mad Catz?