No Guns Allowed
Genre Makers
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Hardware and Software
Videogame-Adjacent
100

In this game, originally for the Nintendo 64, you move to a new town and meet a bunch of anthropomorphic animals.

What is Animal Crossing?

100

This game, a spiritual successor to a famous game for the Commodore 64, started the FPS genre.

What is Wolfenstein 3D?

100

This game, released a month before Wolfenstein 3D, featured a fully 3D dungeon to explore.

What is Ultima Underworld?

100

This Nintendo console had a distinctive shape and handle.

What is the Nintendo GameCube?

100

This Netflix series features characters from the game League of Legends.

What is Arcane?

200

In this game, originally for the Playstation 2, you use a plastic guitar to ROCK OUT.

What is Guitar Hero?

200

This game, based on the famous book by Frank Herbert, started the RTS genre.

What is Dune II or Dune: The Building of a Dynasty?

200

This 2005 platformer featured weird worlds and funny dialogue from the mind of Tim Schafer.

What is Psychonauts?

200

This is the best selling console of all time, just slightly edging out the Nintendo DS.

What is the Playstation 2?

200

This 1995 movie is widely considered to be the first good video game adaptation.

What is Mortal Kombat?

300

In this game, originally for the Nintendo DS, you take care of a bunch of adorable puppies.

What is Nintendogs?

300

This phenomenally successful 1990 arcade game started the fighting game genre.

What is Street Fighter II?

300

This 2005 action-adventure game featured a young woman using her nosy reporter skills to uncover an alien conspiracy.

What is Beyond Good & Evil?

300

This last console by Sega pioneered advances like crystal-clear VGA graphics and a built-in modem for online play 

What is the Sega Dreamcast?

300

This book details the creation of Id Software and their most famous games.

What is Masters of Doom?

400
This game tasks you with taking stuff out of boxes, fitting it all into a room and arranging it artistically.

What is Unpacking?

400

This 1996 Playstation game is widely considered the inspiration for the rhythm game genre.

What is Parappa the Rapper?

400

This 2001 Playstation 2 game was about a boy trying to save a young woman trapped in a castle.

What is ICO?

400

This early attempt at a VR system suffered from a heavy visor and a headache-inducing red screen.

What is the Virtual Boy?

400

This 1982 videogame-related song peaked at number 9 on the Billboard 100.

What is Pac-Man Fever?

500

This game for the Sega Dreamcast included two plastic maracas for you to shake.

What is Samba de Amigo?

500

This game is the most popular puzzle video game ever made.

What is Tetris?

500

This 2006 game for the Playstation 2 and the Wii had you controlling the wolf goddess Amaterasu.

What is Okami?

500

This FPS engine was used to create Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and William Shatner's TekWar.

What is the Build Engine?

500

This 2021 movie featured Ryan Reynolds as an emergent AI in a video-game world.

What is Free Guy?

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