Hardware
The NES Picture Processing Unit can display up to this many hardware sprites, although only eight can normally appear on a single scanline.
What are 64 Sprites
This Capcom sequel was released in Japan in 1988 and the US in 1989.
What is Mega Man 2?
This trick propels the player rapidly in a direction, usually intended to push the player out of a level collision.
What is a 'Zip'?
In Mega Man 3, holding this direction on controller two gives Mega Man a super jump and also prevents normal death when falling into many pits.
What is Right?
The original Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda were both scored by this Nintendo composer.
Who is Koji Kondo?
The NES contains just this much internal work RAM, mirrored repeatedly throughout part of its address space.
Super Mario Bros. 3 was released in Japan in this year.
What is 1988?
Runners intentionally take a hit to gain temporary invincibility and pass through hazards using this technique.
What is a damage boost?
In Mega Man 2, these are the only three weapons that cost less than a full weapon energy unit (bar) per shot.
What are Quick Boomerang, Metal Blade, and Bubble Lead?
This British composer pushed the NES sound hardware notoriously hard on Solstice, Pictionary, and Treasure Master.
Who is Tim Follin?
Game cartridges used chips commonly called these to perform bank switching and extend the NES beyond its basic memory-addressing capabilities.
What is a 'Memory Mapper'?
The Legend of Zelda was released in the US in this year.
What is 1987?
Reducing the number of enemies, projectiles, or sprites on screen can save time by minimizing this common slowdown on NES hardware.
What is lag reduction?
In Mega Man 6, the four alternate boss routes awarding Beat letters belong to these four Robot Masters.
Who are Tomahawk Man, Yamato Man, Knight Man, and Centaur Man?
Tim Follin's title music for Treasure Master is actually an arrangement of the theme from this 1970s television series.
What is Starsky & Hutch?
The NES CPU normally runs at approximately this clock speed in NTSC regions.
What is 1.79 MHz?
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest was released in the US in this year.
What is 1988?
Intentionally forcing an enemy or object outside the game's active object limit so that it disappears is commonly called this.
What is despawning?
Mega Man 4's eight winning Robot Master designers received extremely rare versions of the game in cartridges of this color.
What is gold?
The Japanese Famicom version of Castlevania III uses this Konami mapper to add two pulse channels and one sawtooth channel beyond the console's normal audio hardware.
What is the VRC6?
Although the NES has a 64-entry system palette, it can normally display up to this many colors on screen at once without special rendering tricks.
What is 25 colors?
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse was released in Japan in this year.
What is 1989?
Because the NES CPU has no native floating-point support, games often track movement using fixed-point values, with this hidden fractional position stored separately from the visible pixel coordinate.
What is a sub-pixel?
Although Capcom developed Mega Man 6, this company published the game's 1994 North American NES release after Capcom declined to do so itself.
What is Nintendo?
This composer worked on Ninja Gaiden and Tecmo Bowl, crediting himself as "K.Y. Jet" on the latter because of his love of the New York Jets.
Who is Keiji Yamagishi?