Ancient History & Archaeology in Games
In games like Minecraft and Civilization, you can build these massive triangular stone monuments built by Ancient Egyptians.
What are Pyramids?
Released in 1989, this grey handheld Nintendo device let kids play games on-the-go with a green-tinted screen.
What is the Game Boy?
Before games were played on home screens or phones, kids went to these public venues filled with coin-operated game machines.
What are Arcades?
Founded in Japan in 1889, this gaming giant originally started out making handmade playing cards long before electronic games.
What is Nintendo?
Released in 2017, this popular game popularized the "Battle Pass" season model used across modern gaming.
What is Fortnite?
In Animal Crossing, you can dig up these ancient preserved remains of creatures like T-Rexes and Triceratops for the museum.
What are Fossils (or Dinosaurs)?
In the 1990s, home consoles switched from plastic game cartridges to these shiny round discs that held much more data.
What are CDs (or CD-ROMs)?
Released in 1972, this simple table-tennis simulator with two moving lines and a dot was one of the earliest hit video games.
What is Pong?
Before creating Fortnite, Epic Games developed this popular game engine that hundreds of other developers use today.
What is Unreal Engine?
Holding the title for the single best-selling video game of all time, this blocky building game has sold over 300 million copies.
What is Minecraft?
In Minecraft 1.20, the Trails & Tales update added this real-world science skill where players use brushes to dig up ancient pottery sherds. .
What is Archaeology?
Released in 2006, this Nintendo console became a massive hit because players swung a motion controller like a tennis racket or bowling ball.
What is the Wii?
Created in 1980, this yellow dot-eating hero was originally named "Puck-Man" in Japan.
What is Pac-Man?
Swedish game creator Markus Persson, better known online by this 5-letter nickname, created Minecraft in 2009.
Who is Notch?
Released in 2016, this mobile augmented reality game got millions of people outside searching their real-world towns for wild creatures.
What is Pokémon GO?
In RollerCoaster Tycoon and Civilization, you can build a replica of this famous ancient amphitheater in Rome where gladiators once performed.
What is the Colosseum?
Before entering the console market with Xbox in 2001, this company was already world-famous for its Windows computer software.
What is Microsoft?
Created in 1984 in the Soviet Union, this block-stacking puzzle game features falling shapes called tetrominoes.
What is Tetris?
Created in 1991 to compete with Mario, this blue SEGA mascot was designed specifically to show off the system's fast processing speed.
Who is Sonic the Hedgehog?
Before becoming a standalone soccer-with-cars hit in 2015, Rocket League was a sequel to a game starting with "Supersonic Acrobatic..."
What are Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars?
Featured in games like Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour, this ancient library in Egypt was famous for holding thousands of scroll manuscripts.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
Selling over 155 million units, this 2000s system from Sony holds the title of the best-selling gaming console in history.
What is the PlayStation 2 (PS2)?
In 1981, Mario made his very first appearance rescuing Pauline from a giant barrel-throwing ape under this original name.
What is Jumpman?
The Oregon Trail, one of the earliest educational games created in 1971, was designed to teach students about American pioneers in this century.
What is the 19th Century (or the 1800s)?
In 2020, this multiplayer space deduction game where players complete tasks and find the Impostor blew up in popularity during lockdowns.
What is Among Us?