Misc. Gaming
This game involves placing and breaking blocks, and is currently the best-selling video game of all time.
Minecraft
This Pokémon is yellow with red cheeks, and has the power of electricity.
Pikachu
This programming language is named after a type of reptile, and is often recommended to beginners.
Python
In Star Wars, this is a sword-like weapon with a laser blade.
Lightsaber
This company makes plastic building blocks sold in boxes (or "sets") which often feature themes such as Batman and Harry Potter.
LEGO
This robot character is the antagonist of the game Portal.
GLaDOS
This character from the game Animal Crossing: New Leaf resembles a yellow Shih Tzu and works as the mayor's assistant.
Isabelle
In programming, this is a data type that can only be set to a value of either "true" or "false."
In Star Wars, this short, green character first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back.
Yoda
This anime, created by Nickelodeon, features characters who are born with the ability to manipulate (or "bend") four elements -- water, earth, fire and air -- using their mind.
Avatar: The Last Airbender
This monster from Dungeons & Dragons resembles a brain with legs, and feeds on psychic energy.
Intellect Devourer
This series of LCD handhelds, made by Nintendo, predate even the NES, with each one featuring only one or two games to play.
Game & Watch
This English mathematician is often considered to be the first-ever computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace
This is the name of the Rebel ship featured in A New Hope that was boarded by Darth Vader in the first scene in the movie.
Tantive IV
This internet phenomenon, which gained much of its popularity in 2020 and 2021, consists of pictures of empty man-made areas that often look eerie or unnerving.
Liminal spaces
This set of cards in the game Magic: The Gathering is the first of a series of sets that feature silver-bordered joke cards that can't be used in actual play.
Unglued
This console was Nintendo's worst-selling ever, featuring a monochrome red screen on a head-mounted display.
Virtual Boy
This is a type of computer program that simulates programming for a retro video game console, originally started by PICO-8.
Fantasy consoles
This character first appeared in the TV show The Clone Wars and was Darth Maul's brother, as well as his and Dooku's apprentice.
Savage Opress
This short story, written by Jorge Luis Borges, describes a world consisting solely of a never-ending library with books each containing 410 pages of random letters and punctuation.
The Library of Babel
This character is the Stoat in Act 1 and the antagonist of Act 3 in the game Inscryption.
P03
This character from the Mario series is often considered to be the first transgender character in a video game.
Birdo
This programming language, created in 1993, was designed to be extremely difficult to use, and spawned a genre of programming languages known as esoteric languages or "esolangs."
Brainfuck
This is the name of the song played in the Mos Eisley Cantina in A New Hope.
Mad About Me
This computer program takes place on an endless grid where each square is either alive or dead, and is a classic example of a "cellular automaton."
Conway's Game of Life