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100

This 1996 game featuring a soundtrack entirely by Nine Inch Nails, includes ammunition crates with the NIN logo

What is Quake?

100

This company was formed as a subsidiary of Atari Games and is known for publishing licensed (and later unlicensed) NES games

What is Tengen?

100

This 2003 Simpsons game was heavily inspired by GTA III, letting you punch, kick, and hitchhike your way through sandbox missions in Springfield.

What is The Simpsons Hit & Run?

100

This controller was included with the PS3, and did not have any vibration capabilities due to legal issues.

What is the SIXAXIS?

100

This long-running arcade golf series debuted in 1989 and is known for its many iterations, trackball controller, and competitive tournament scene.

What is Golden Tee?

200

From on-disc content to DLC, this franchise gave players access to 12 playable Nine Inch Nails songs.

What is Rock Band?

200

Nintendo recently announced a partnership with this company to distribute the Switch in China.

What is Tencent?

200

In the 1991 Simpsons arcade game by Konami, Bart fights with a skateboard, Lisa with a jumprope, and Marge with this item.

What is a vacuum cleaner?

200

While the first 5 entries in this beloved 8-bit franchise were published by the developer, Nintendo published the sixth in North America.

What is Mega Man?

200

This 2004 outing developed by Camelot is fondly remembered for mixing RPG mechanics with traditional golf gameplay.

What is Mario Golf: Advance Tour?

300

This 2004 Id Software Game was originally planned to have music composed by Trent Reznor, but due to "time, money and bad management", none of his music and sound effects made the final game.

What is Doom 3?

300

Of Final Fantasy X, X-2, Mega Man 10, Mega Man X, Mortal Kombat X, Street Fighter 2010, F-Zero X, or Dracula X this title was  released in 2010

What is Mega Man 10?

300

This Simpsons video game debut, first released for the NES in 1991, borrows a trope from John Carpenter's 1988 film "They Live".

What is Bart vs. the Space Mutants?

300

This sixth installment of a frantically fun franchise, released in 2008, is the 9th best-selling game of all time with over 37 million units sold.

What is Mario Kart Wii?

300

EA published this creative take on mini golf, first on home computers in 1988 and later on the Sega Genesis in 1990.

What is Zany Golf?

400

This iPhone rhythm game, borrowing elements from DDR and Guitar Hero, launched day-and-date with the App Store in July 2008. It became the store's most downloaded game of 2008, and the developer released a NIN-branded premium version in October.

What is Tap Tap Revenge?

400

This 1983 arcade football game by Irem was later published by Nintendo as a "black box" NES game in the "Sports Series"

What is 10-Yard Fight?

400

This Lemmings-like game featuring Simpsons characters found its way to consoles and handhelds in 1992, but was originally a 1991 Amiga game titled Rat-Trap.

What is Krusty's Fun House? (Also accept Krusty's Super Fun House)

400

This 2007 Lego game is a combination of two earlier games, totaling six story episodes.

What is Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga?

400

This is the full title of the one and only golf game released on the 32X.

What is Golf Magazine Presents 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples?

(I'll let you all decide how strict to be here)


500

Trent Reznor composed the main theme for this 2012 entry in a wildly successful yearly FPS series

What is Call of Duty: Black Ops II?

500

Released as Power Smash in Japan, this 1999 arcade game hit the Dreamcast in 2000 with this English title

What is Virtua Tennis?

500

Bart becomes a dinosaur, tubes a water slide, and kicks apocalyptic bullies from a dirtbike in this poorly-reviewed 16-bit entry with lots of Mode 7 and a "peak 90's" title.

What is Virtual Bart?

500

Of the 6 Sega CD 32X games released worldwide, this is the only title developed by Sega Studios.

What is Fahrenheit?

500

Hackers discovered a copy of NES Golf hidden in the original Nintendo Switch firmware as a tribute to the game's programmer. It could be activated by performing a special Joy-Con movement once a year on this day.

What is July 11th? (Also acceptable: The day of Iwata's passing)