Acronyms in Games
Pogg"er"s
Fruity Bunch
Ocean Man
Bizarre Units of Measure
200

HP is a common acronym short for these in most video games

What are hit points?
200

This dating app popularized the action of swiping for matches

What is Tinder?

200

This radioactive fruit famously reproduces by cloning

What is a banana?

200

This Japanese indie band shares a name with a household item

What is Lamp?

200

You'll need "five tomatoes" to convert this unit into feet

What are miles?

400

The acronym for Orbital Drop Shock Trooper is in the title of this hit first person shooter

What is Halo 3:ODST?

400

My current Steam username

What is wackysmacker339?

400

In November of 2011, Congress legally defined this food as a vegetable

What is pizza?

400

In Marvel's Shang Chi, this rapper, singer, songwriter and drummer was featured on the soundtrack's third song

Who is Anderson .Paak?

400

This compound unit is a joint combination of the SI units for force and distance, used for measuring torque

What is a Newton-meter?

600

PGN and FEN are notations for keeping track of moves in this classic board game

What is Chess?

600

This is the name of the top-side city in the Netflix series Arcane

What is Piltover?

600

In the game, Portal 2, Cave Johnson goes on a rant about a saying involving this citrus

What is a lemon?

600

This monosyllabic title ending in an exclamation point belongs to the theme song of a recently cancelled Netflix series

What is Tank!?

600

This hundredth of a piece is used to calculate advantage in chess

What is a centipawn?

800

The Super Rotation System (SRS) is a set of rules for this timeless Russian game

What is Tetris?

800

This iconic device is named after the sound it makes to help align audio and video in movie production

What is a clapperboard?

800

The name of this fruit is never mentioned in Drake's song by the same name

What is passionfruit?

800

This europop track is Candyman's theme in Lethal League

What is Ordinary Days?

800

A conceptual measurement to quantify risk, it’s said a thousand of these means certain death

What is a micromort?

1000

These two pairs of boxing gloves in the game Team Fortress 2 share acronyms with Soviet government agencies

What are the KGB and GRU?

1000

You'll need several cannons if you want to play this song, considered to be Tchaikovsky's most famous piece

What is 1812 Overture?

1000

Daily Double!

Twitch streamer Jerma985 is quoted ranting about this fruit, saying "if there's [one] in front of me, sitting right in front of my face, I'll eat it, and I'll like it, but i'll never buy it"

1000

Originating as a karaoke ballad in the Yakuza games, this song became the anthem for deepfake videos and chess memes in 2020

What is Baka Mitai?

1000

Cuil theory describes a unit, the cuil, first "popularized" on reddit and represents steps removed from this (Hint: you order a sandwich and I give you a raccoon)

What is reality?