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100

Created in 1984 for the Electronika. This best selling cross platform game has an estimated 495 million copies sold and downloaded.

Tetris

100

This was the first dinosaur featured in the hit 1993 film Jurassic Park, and while the name may suggest it is originally from the Cretaceous Period as are most dinosaurs shown.

A velociraptor

100

In the game of Risk, this continent is worth the most points to capture, own, or start with due to it's size and position.

Asia

100

The A.I. from Portal GLaDOS, during the second installment, was tricked and stored in a carrot by our new antagonist Wheatley.

She was stored in a potato.

100

This artificially sweetener was introduced in 1999. Based on sucralose it's purpose is used as a lower calorie sugar replacement. 

Splenda

200
The first game in the Legend of Zelda franchise where Princess Zelda was usable as a playable character.

Zelda: Wand of Gamelon

200

While specifically named "trolldiering" this technique involves firing a rocket downwards with no self damage to the player to effectively launch upwards and gain position on an enemy, or to complete an obstacle course.

Rocket Jumping

200

In Monopoly this will happen when a player lands on an unsold property he or she does not want to buy.

It goes to auction

200

Although many of the park's security measures fail, perhaps the most alarming failure is found by Dr. Grant when he discovers a batch of hatched dinosaur eggs indicating that the male and female dinosaur populations have breached each other's paddocks.

Only female dinosaurs are bred naturally in Jurassic Park, but then as "Life Finds a Way" the females turned into males as some female reptiles do in the wild when male populations are shortened.

200

While you make think modern trees have been around longer, this large carnivorous fish has been dated back as old as 400 million years in the Paleozoic Era.

The Great White Shark - 


Devonian Era (416mya)

Mississippian or Pennsylvanian (318-360mya) - Trees

300

The first ever product to ever be made and widely distributed by Nintendo.

Hanafuda, a Japanese variety of playing cards.

300

This armor being incredibly light, and incredibly strong, can only be forged by the highest of dwarves. It is seen being worn by both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins throughout the LoTR franchise.

Mithril chainmail

300

This game invented by a sophomore at the University of Illinois in 1962 was originally created as part of a class assignment to invent a game or toy, and later was only sold for a measly $500. The creator despite the game's purpose did not continue on to practice medicine. 

Operation

300

In Final Fantasy, Shinra, the corporation opposed by the ecoterrorist group Avalanche, has constructed a series of reactors that are slowly but surely destroying the planet. The reactors harvest Mako, the life force of the planet that in its crystal form, Materia, is used solely as a magical weapon.

Materia crystals are not the weapon itself and instead are combined with weapons to enhance them.

300

This thingamabob that did the job was a spell used in the 1950 Cinderella to summon a dress, animate a pumpkin into a carriage, and expired at midnight.

Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo

400

This hit game from 1987 was the first Nintendo game to have a "Save Game" feature. The game relied on a soldered watch-type battery to hold saved game data. 

The Legend of Zelda

400

The Star Wars universe is home to many civilizations with many languages; notably Shyriiwook spoken by Chewbacca, droidspeak spoken by R2-D2 and BB-8, Ewokese spoken by Ewoks, etc. The audience may be hearing English from the main cast, but the actual language is from a long long time ago.

Galactic Basic.

400

This board game, created in 1943, happened to be one of the first to be made into a computer game. With its small yet strategic design, two players go head to head in naval warfare.

Battleship

400

The direwolves of the Stark children do not fare well in these stories. Only Nymeria still lives, while Lady, Greywind, Ghost, Summer and Shaggydog have all been brutally killed on screen.

Ghost is alive.

400

The usual combustion reaction of Propane (C3H8), with a constant supply of oxygen, will produce these two reactants along with heat.

Carbon Dioxide and Water

C3H8 + 5O2 → 3CO2 + 4H2O + heat

500

This pro baseball team was purchased by Nintendo with majority ownership in 1992.

The Seattle Mariners

500

This Star Wars movie released in 1978 involved Chewbacca and Han Solo trying to get to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, but are impeded by an Imperial blockade. Chewie's family passes the time with various forms of entertainment.

The Star Wars Holiday Special

500

While similar boards and hieroglyphic signs are found even earlier, around 3000BCE, this board game is denoted as being the original and first. In 2620 BCE from the Mastaba of Hesy-Re, the game involves moving wooden blocks around the board to capture and win spaces.

Senet

500

Syndrome, the villainous alter ego of Buddy Pine, meets his untimely demise at the hands, or rather claws, of his own Omnidroid, which targets him and his remote control as a threat during the staged "fight" in the city of Metroville.

Syndrome died when his cape was sucked into a jet engine.

500

Suspended from the hyoid bone, and spanning between C3 and C6, this bone is usually referred to as one's Voice Box.

Larynx