History
What is the best-selling console of all time (as of June 2024)?
Sony's PlayStation 2
What technology allowed Elite, an 8-bit game from 1984, to portray a universe of 2084 separate planets to fly between?
Procedural generation
What was the name of the team behind the hit Itch game "Taco Tides"?
Galactic Whiskers
What do squares represent in shape theory?
Strength, stability
Which is generally considered to be the first game in the Legend of Zelda timeline?
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
What was the original name of the very first documented video game, developed by William Higinbotham in 1958?
Tennis for Two
What type of helpful technology in development is Git a well-known example of?
Version control or source control
Who designed what would become the foundation of modern stealth games?
Hideo Kojima with Metal Gear
Name the concept used to communicate to the player when what attack is about to be performed, so they can react in time.
Telegraphing
Who is Dr. Wily the arch-nemesis of?
Megaman
How long was the development period of Howard Scott Warshaw's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" for the Atari 2600, famously cited as "one of the worst games of all time"?
Just over five weeks
What is the name of the technique used to determine surfaces or objects hidden from the camera, so that they can be skipped in rendering to save processing power?
Occlusion culling or hidden-surface determination
Who is attributed with the design of the successful video game "Civilisation"?
Sidney K. Meier
What else were the sprites for the bushes in Super Mario Bros. used as to save memory?
Clouds
Who was the last character to be added to the roster of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and what franchise were they from?
Sora from Kingdom Hearts
What was the first console ever to support compact discs?
NEC PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16 in the USA) in 1988
What anti-piracy measure in games caused unrest for requiring players of singleplayer games to remain connected to the internet at all times?
Always-on DRM (Digital Rights Management)
Who was inspired to create their successful game franchise by their hobby of collecting insects?
Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon
According to Masahiro Sakurai's concept of "risk and reward", what is the player risking for what reward when they drift in Mariokart?
Less control for a speed boost
Name the four classic ghosts from Pac-Man
Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde
Argonaut Games, developer of the Super FX chip for the Super NES lost their partnership with Nintendo over a declined game pitch centred around which Nintendo character?
Yoshi
What concept was the arcade game "Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone" infamous for in 1990 that had become commonplace in modern times?
Microtransactions
Who was the very first to ever voice Bowser in Super Mario Sunshine?
Scott Burns
What problem in Ratchet & Clank caused the developers to give every weapon an individual XP bar in the sequel?
Players felt no drive to use all of the game's weapons
How much health does a Minecraft Snow Golem have?
4 (two hearts)