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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Twenty-five multiple-choice questions covering the glory years of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Put your useless knoweldge to the test.
Take Brett Savage’s latest challenge. The Nintendo Historian Quiz 2: A Masters-Level Sequel. Then brag about your high score.
(If you were absent the day of the first quiz, take a make-up here.)
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30% Man, that quiz kicked my butt. I guess I didn’t play as many games as I thought.
posted by Dusty on 11-13-2007 at 1:49 pm
100%
I don’t remember the McDonald’s game. Anyone ever play that?
posted by Tanner on 11-13-2007 at 1:51 pm
I feel sorry for anyone who didnt grow up in the mid-to-late 80’s and enjoyed the original NES. it forever changed our lives and when I’m 100 years old I’ll still know the entire score of the mario brothers game(who can forget that music?) that came with the system…..and can still play and beat the game just as easy as 20 years ago…damn I feel old : (
posted by chad on 11-13-2007 at 1:55 pm
Only 50%!!!
That doesn’t accurately reflect the amount of time I spent in front of the Nintendo between 1986 and 1990.
Funny stuff. thanks!
posted by Luigi on 11-13-2007 at 2:19 pm
Dang! Only 60%. Then again, I was never a sports game person, so I never cared if Dr. J had a game or not. Tough quiz.
posted by SpaceMonkeyX on 11-13-2007 at 2:21 pm
Score: 85% (17 out of 20)
Not too shabby!
posted by extrarice on 11-13-2007 at 2:49 pm
Kicked my ass at 35%. I spent a fair amount of time on my NES, but playing Chris Evert/Ivan Lendl Tennis, Elevator Action (got that one right), Duck Hunt (stupid, but I loved it) and Tetris. Never heard of many of the games mentioned, which is sad.
posted by Matt on 11-13-2007 at 3:08 pm
I *owned* the McDonald’s game. Ironically, I was just talking about it the other day. If I remember right, it had a handful of worlds representing different McD’s characters, and you had to beat something like four out of six levels in each world, and it got really hard towards the end.
Of course, I haven’t played it in at least ten years. Probably more.
posted by Jeffrey on 11-13-2007 at 3:19 pm
Ooh, you added five more questions since I took this earlier. It is good to see Mega Man represented now.
posted by Erin on 11-13-2007 at 4:04 pm
80% haha, didn’t think I’d do that good
posted by Tyler on 11-13-2007 at 5:04 pm
50% Hey, I never had any of these games!
R.O.B. had two games, Gyromite and Stack-Up. Still not a lot.
posted by 2bookworm on 11-13-2007 at 5:54 pm
I completely disagree with the comments about excitebike. When I was younger, I absolutely LOVED that game.
posted by Aimee on 11-13-2007 at 7:15 pm
64%. Dr. J was in “Jordan Vs. Bird: One on One” for NES, the sequel to the PC game, “One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird”. I remembered that because I rented it at least once as a kid and had to ask who Dr. J was. =p That confused me so I missed that question too, haha.
posted by Keitaro on 11-13-2007 at 11:14 pm
I got 60%. 12 questions I legitimately knew, 1 I narrowed down through common sense, and the other 2 were lucky guesses.
There were 4 questions where I eliminated two answers because I knew or figured they were wrong, then picked the wrong answer out of the remaining 2. :( Ugh.
Great quiz, though.
posted by Smokey on 11-14-2007 at 1:35 am
Pro Wrestling was one of the first games I ever owned! My cousins and I use to play it all the time.
We called “King Slender” –Cheese Man, for whatever reason.
Man, I was 5 when that game came out :P I’m getting old too!!!
posted by Terrance on 11-14-2007 at 6:42 am
Cool Quiz. Only got 53% though.
One of my favs was Spy vs. Spy. Really simple game, but a lot of fun.
Nice to see some emulators out there to play the old classics while on my “break” at work. :-)
posted by Scott on 11-14-2007 at 9:50 am
65%…17 out of 25…I got a 100% on the first one…
posted by Steve on 11-14-2007 at 2:29 pm
Not to be too picky, but the details on R.C. Pro-Am are a little bit off. The number of laps on a given course ranged from 2 to 6 (maybe more… but I can’t recall). Spelling NINTENDO simply upgraded your car, as well as the cars of the CPU opponents. You could still advance through the levels with the more primitive car, though at some point the game would become too difficult to do so.
Great quiz! (14/25 56%)
posted by Tim K on 11-14-2007 at 2:43 pm
One of the questions doesn’t have the right answer. Cliffhanger is for the SNES, still have the cartridge to prove it. So, can anyone prove me wrong on this one?
posted by Jeremy on 11-14-2007 at 2:55 pm
According to Nintendo.com, Cliffhanger was one of the (14 pages of) games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was most definitely an SNES game, too.
Anyone have visual evidence? Here’s a link to the list:
64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:kEG-w0AfnB4J:www.nintendo.com/doc/nes_games.pdf+list+of+nintendo+games&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a
posted by Jason on 11-14-2007 at 3:09 pm
Sure seemed heavy on the sports games, I was an RPG adventure guy myself, but still managed a 67%
posted by robert on 11-15-2007 at 10:16 am
R.O.B. also worked on the Donkey Kong cartridge. If you didn’t use it you had to use the A & B buttons on the second player controller to move the barriers up and down in order to progress through the level.
posted by If I Get Old on 11-15-2007 at 11:47 am
Actually there was an “Over The Top” video game. There is an arm wrestling level in Track and Field 2 where its clearly Stallone and The fat guy at the end.
posted by Mike on 11-15-2007 at 3:40 pm
54%
posted by David on 11-16-2007 at 12:18 am
R.O.B. had two games specifically for him in the U.S…. Gyromite came with him and Stack-Up was sold seperately. I have both cartridges and all the parts for Gyromite, which was actually sorta fun once you got past the horrible grinding noise of the moving plastic gears in R.O.B.
Gilligan’s Island, on the other hand, was the biggest waste of anyone’s time. I smiled when I saw that listed, as no one seems to remember it. I think the only game worse for the NES was Where’s Waldo, where Waldo was more or less a random red pixel on the screen.
posted by Amauriel on 11-20-2007 at 11:50 am
I have the Last Action Hero game for the SNES. Perhaps the worst game I’ve ever played.
posted by bobthewalrus on 2-29-2008 at 1:06 pm