What is the best selling videogame of all time?
Minecraft
What year was Nintendo founded?
1889
What are the paintings in Minecraft modeled after?
Counterstrike maps
What gaming console was largely considered a ‘flop’ and ‘before its time’ and effectively ended Sega’s console efforts in 2001?
The Dreamcast
What is the highest-grossing movie based on a video game?
Detective Pikachu (Pokemon)
What is the highest-selling gaming console to date?
Playstation 2
Mario first appeared in what video game?
Donkey Kong
In Minecraft, what real-life animals portrayed the sound effects of the ghast enemies?
The sound composers pet cat
What games did the famous actor Robin Williams reportedly name his children after?
Zelda (Legend of Zelda) and Cody (Final Flight)
What ailment was Nintendo sued (and lost) for, resulting in payouts?
Blisters on the thumbs of children for playing too much Mario Party.
What is the best-selling handheld gaming system to date?
Nintendo DS
What is the name of Mario’s dinosaur sidekick?
Yoshi
In Minecraft, what is a group of Endermen called?
A haunting of Endermen
What popular streaming service launched in June 2011, allows content creators to stream video games while chatting with viewers?
Twitch
What planet is most similar to the scalable size of the Minecraft world?
Neptune
What is the most expensive video game made to date?
Grand Theft Auto V (although Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 earns an honorable mention in this category)
In Minecraft, what typically results from setting an Enderman on fire?
Endermen usually teleport to water for safety when set on fire, but then drown. So setting endermen on fire effectively results in their suicide.
What is the name of the first video game to be played in outer space
Starcraft
When Google created a playable Pac Man game for its homepage in 2010, how many hours of gameplay did it see from the collective internet?
Almost 5 million hours
What American car manufacturer inspired the cars in Fallout 3?
Ford Motor Company’s nuclear power concept
How much did a virtual reality device cost in 1980?
The Eyephone 1 was priced at $49,000 in the 1980s
Nintendo owns two of the most popular gaming franchises ever. The net worth of these 2 franchises equals the combined total of the remaining eight franchises in the top 10. What are they?
Mario and Pokemon
What United States president was asked (and declined) to voice the in-game president character in Fallout 3?
Bill Clinton
What video game is taken so seriously in South Korea it is officially recognized as an e-Sport?
StarCraft
What is the name of the planet that is home to the game “Gears of War?”
Sera