90's
Fighting Games
Ancient Greek Philosophy
Super Mario
Fantasy and Sci-fi
100

Michael Jordan stars with a variety of Looney Toons characters in this basketball themed movie.

Space Jam

100

This famous fighting game move is performed by inputting down, down forward, forward, and then a punch button when the player has selected Ken or Ryu

Hadoken

100

Deployed by Plato in his many dialogues, this style of style of argumentation is presented as a dialogue between two or more characters whereby Socrates asks his interlocuters questions

Socratic Method (Or Socratic Debate)

100

Princess Peach was originally known by this name, as she introduces herself with it in Super Mario 64's opening cinematic. 

Princess Toadstool

100

This trilogy of books, written by English author and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien, dramatically expanded the popularity and demand for fantasy media and enjoys widespread popularity to the present day.

The Lord of the Rings

200

These plushies were presumed to be worth a lot of money someday. Today, they're practically worthless.

Beanie Babies

200

This fighting game series, full of rock and roll music references, features a colorful cast of characters including Testament, Potemkin, and Faust. 

Guilty Gear

200

This moral theory, which presumes that the ultimate moral good is the unyielding pursuit of pleasure, is commonly found in selfish people

Hedonism

200

The Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device, known also as FLUDD, makes its first appearance in this Super Mario Game.

Super Mario Sunshine

200

This pen-and-pencil dice rolling game started as a blend of Tolkien-esque fantasy and traditional wargaming. 

Dungeons and Dragons

300

The East Coast and West Coast hip hop rivalry surged during the 90's, with these two artists playing central cultural roles.

Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur
300

These two bears are palette swaps of each other. I take great pleasure watching hardcore Tekken fans get upset when one of them wins a major tournament.

Kuma and Panda

300

This philosopher, the student of Plato, went on to teach Alexander the Great

Aristotle

300

In the original Super Mario Bros. game, instead of blue Mario's overalls were this color

Red

300

Magic: The Gathering alludes to the player being one of these, powerful beings who draw energy from the land to cast spells and summon creatures.

Planeswalker

400

This TV show featured the well-to-do Banks family.

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

400

Akuma subjects his opponent to 1,000 deaths all at once with this hidden super move.

Raging Demon (Messatsu)

400

The simile of the sun, the divided line, the allegory of the cave... these things are all mechanisms used by Socrates to describe this ephemeral concept

The Good

400

This mushroom, which first appeared in Super Mario: The Lost Levels is often depicted with purple and pink spots, is the opposite of a Super Mushroom. It hurts you!

Poison Mushroom or Cursed Mushroom

400

In Star Trek, the fandom has taken to naming soon-to-die crew members this after the garments that they wear.

Redshirts

500

This city's Olympic events were overshadowed by a pipe-bomb explosion in Centennial Park.

Atlanta

500

This title, the first installment of the Soul series, was developed and published by Namco for the System 11 arcade hardware and allowed an 8-way dash for its fighters.

Soul Edge

500
This pre-socratic philosopher is unique among them for asserting that the only essence of the universe is change. After all, one cannot step in the same river twice. 

Heraclitus

500

In an original draft of Super Mario RPG, Mario was given a sword to wield later replaced by this iconic Mario Bros weapon.

The hammer

500

This subgenre of sci-fi fiction depicts retro-futuristic Victorian-era technologies set in an alternate 20th century. Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky is said to be inspired by it.

Steampunk