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The Impossible LairA tournament on mostly old videogamesBy Mike BentleySeptember 2020Round 31. In 2008, Kotaku ran a story confirming an "Early Voting Has Begun" ad taken out in a game in this series by the Obama campaign was a real ad. After smashing through the 120 other billboards in that game in this series, the player unlocks the Carbon Hawker. In the UK, Acclaim controversially paid speeding tickets for people going to pick up the second game in this series, the last one to get a release on a Nintendo home console until 2020. A ? Guns N' Roses track opens and provides the title to an open-world entry in this series that got a remastered 10th anniversary edition in 2018. The breakthrough game in this Criterion series introduced a mode called Road Rage where the player needs to get a certain number of Takedowns to clear the event. Paradise was the last entry in, for 10 points, what series (*) of racing games whose title comes from the boost games' boost meter?ANSWER: Burnout?2. A TurboGrafx-16 game titled for this character was advertised with the slogan, "Announcing something never seen in a video game. Video." That game starring this character was titled for a mummy's curse. In a 2012 game titled for this character's "testament," he goes to meet with the Bishop of Knightbridge only to discover that the bishop has been burned alive. An upcoming "Chapter One" game titled for this character will apparently explore "the youthful arrogance and naiveté of the man before the legend" as he explores a Mediterranean island where his ? mother was killed. A steampunk hound version of this character got 3 Famicom games. A 1996 EA game titled for this character featured an appearance from Mrs. Hudson. Another game saw this character face off against Jack the Ripper. For 10 points, name this (*) detective character often joined in videogames by his assistant Watson.ANSWER: Sherlock Holmes [or Sherlock Holmes; or Young Sherlock Holmes; or Meitantei Hōmuzu; accept Sherlock Hound before "hound" is mentioned]?3. These letters appear at the end of the title of a fan game by Ivan Delgado that adds new sprites and the ability to play as Luigi to one game. Characters from The New Zealand Story and Bubble Bobble are included in a special mode from a Space Invaders game that added these letters to the title. It's not "GP" or "VR," but these letters appear at the end of the title of Bandai Namco's third Mario Kart arcade entry. These two letters were added to the title of a GameCube game that, unlike the Dreamcast original, featured Metal Sonic. The Color ? Dungeon and The Camera Shop were added to the version of Link's Awakening that adds these two letters to its title. For 10 points, name these (*) two letters that often followed games remade for the Game Boy Color, perhaps indicating they were "deluxe" versions of the game.ANSWER: DX?4. This character is playable in between levels featuring Captain Viridian and Shantae in World Five of Mutant Mudds Super Challenge. This character awards the player a golden Pagie for climbing to the top of a mountain and retrieving a gem in a cameo in Yooka-Laylee. A boss battle with this character in Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 could only be accessed if you scanned this character's amiibo. The Japanese version of this character's game has different sleeping icons for the cutscenes where he rests by a campfire. A witch named Mona helps an enemy of this title character steal his essence in the DLC campaign ? Plague of Shadows. This character uses his signature weapon, modeled on the Duck Tales pogo stick, to unearth power-ups as an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. For 10 points, name this (*) title character of a Yacht Club Games 8-bit style platformer who can use his namesake weapon to dig holes.ANSWER: Shovel Knight 5. In 1993, Steven and Janeth Schwartz wrote a guide to video games titled for these people. A game titled for one of these people ends with Chef Fujimoto complaining that "the book was better!" before leaving a movie theater. A game by Game Grumps titled for a type of these people opens with the player moving to a new house in Maple Bay and has you winning Pokémon-style battles by bragging how awesome a relative is. That dating game is titled for ? "Dream" versions of a type of these people. A game titled for an animal that's also one of these people has your character attempting to preserve their secret identity in situations like a wedding ceremony. That game stars an octopus that is also one of these people. For 10 points, name these (*) type of people, one of whose home you leave at the start of Pokémon Red.ANSWER: parents [or dads; or moms; accept Octodad; if someone buzzes on octopuses, point out that octopuses aren't people] 6. One of these characters yells "we're shredded all right!" when you encounter him in Shangri-Spa in origami form in a recent release. These characters were retconned into an earlier release for the e-Reader level "Vegetable Volley." Two of these characters are the first overworld map enemies you'll face in Super Mario 3D World, a game which revealed that they had blue hair. When Mario steals the hat from one of these characters, he is able to smash through boulders in a section of the Ruined Kingdom in Mario Odyssey. A "splittin'" version of these characters can be found in Vanilla Dome 2. A Mario Mania entry on these enemies described "confused" examples of them who threw ? baseballs at you and "clappin'" examples who jump up in the air. For 10 points, name these (*) football-playing enemies introduced in Super Mario World described by the adjective Chargin'.ANSWER: Chargin' Chuck [accept Lookout Chuck, Confused Chuck, Passin' Chuck, Clappin' Chuck, Splittin' Chuck or Diggin' Chuck]?7. I achieved this effect in Doc Entertainment games like Hover Tanx by calling BitBlt with a vbSrcAnd but not a subsequent vbSrcPaint. A recent Slate article tracked the history of a phone with this characteristic by Conair included in the 2020 reboot of The Baby-Sitters Club. The awesomely named Derby Stallion and This Is Cool versions of the Sega Saturn had this feature for both the controller and faceplate of the console. A Green N64 with this property came packaged with ? Donkey Kong 64. Benj Edwards' exploration of this feature in the design of Apple products traced it back to the Power Mac 9600, although it was more prominently included in the iMac's design. Cartridges with this property signaled that they could be used on the Game Boy Color but not the original Game Boy. For 10 points, name this (*) property that lets you peer into the interior circuit boards of a cartridge.ANSWER: translucent [or partially see-through; or transparent]?8. This is the first word in a racing game whose beginner's track takes place in "Big Forest" before proceeding to the expert-level Acropolis. In a game whose title starts with this word, the player battles their way to EVIL headquarters, a building modeled on Sega's Tokyo headquarters. This word preceded "Racing" in the only Genesis game to come with an extra co-processing chip. A shooting game that started with this word awarded extra points for "justice shots" and casts the player as either Michael "Rage" Hardy or James "Smarty" Cools, two ? police officers. This is the first word in the name of a fighting game featuring boss character Dural and blocky polygonal fighters like Pai Chan and Jeffry McWild. That game with this first word in the title was a long-time rival of Tekken. For 10 points, name this (*) word that precedes "Fighter" in a Sega 3D fighting series.ANSWER: Virtua [do not accept "virtual"]?9. A promo video for this game begins with an animated sequence of a tractor and includes pre-release graphics where NPCs turn into mummies rather than a skull-and-crossbones. Early in this game, the player can score over 100,000 points by defeating a wave of Brains who, due to a programming error, only target one NPC. Enemies in this game called Tanks are the only ones able to fire reflective projectiles. The control scheme in this game was inspired by the developer's inability to play Berzerk after getting into a car accident; it innovatively featured no gameplay ? buttons. The player in this game has "superhuman powers" "due to a genetic engineering error" and is tasked with saving "Mommy, Daddy and Mikey," the last human family. This arcade game was co-designed by Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis and was one of the first to let you both move and shoot in any direction simultaneously. For 10 points, name this (*) classic Williams twin-sticks human vs. machine shooter from 1982.ANSWER: Robotron: 2084 10. One videogame company in this country got its start manufacturing a laser gun called the Zillion. It's not the UK, but the recently released Spectrum Next builds on tech called the TBBlue developed in this country. One of the biggest 16-bit games developed in this country was based on a comic strip called Monica and was just a reskinned version of Wonder Boy. A version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire was made for the Genesis by a prolific developer in this country called ? Tectoy. In 2010, videogame fans in this country founded Jogo Justo to try to reduce the steep 72% import tariffs on videogames. A fictional character survives a plane crash in this country, but his skin turns green and he gains the ability to generate electricity; that character is Blanka from Street Fighter. For 10 points, name this (*) country whose version of EGM publishes in Portuguese.ANSWER: Brazil [or Brasil]?11. An early prototype of one of these things was designed by Bridge Design. After a patent infringement judgment against this technology was reversed, a company founded by Michael Lehrman went bankrupt, with Lehrman pivoting to a new company called Sleep Methods Inc. A company called iLife won a lawsuit over these things in 2017, earning some $10 million. Developers from Factor 5 revealed that they had prototype versions of these devices while working on a launch title for an earlier system. A silicon ? "jacket" for these things was introduced after a lawsuit from Molly Elvig over their "ineffective" safety component. Lavuky released a USB compatible sensor bar which makes these devices work with emulators. A spate of accidents involving these things in 2006 prompted the manufacturer to start issuing stronger straps. For 10 points, name these (*) control devices for Wii Sports.ANSWER: Wii Remote [or Wiimote; or Wii Remote Plus; prompt on motion sensor or gyroscope or accelerometer]?12. The license for this character was once owned by Robert Platt and Jay Wind, who also published a Geocities page devoted to this character. Proceeds for games starring this character were supposedly going to be donated to the Children's Defense Fund and the Humane Society. This character was to have starred alongside Fido Dido and Chester Cheetah in a line of licensed games by Kaneko. Time reported that in one game starring this character, the objective was to evict Millie the dog and to "avoid Arab terrorist felines." Second Dimension's Kickstarter campaign to finish a game starring this character succeeded, but not enough to make a Genesis version at the ? "bipartisan" level. In one game, this character faced an enemy named Rush Lim-Bomb. This character was going to star in a game where he "Rocks the Hill" before that got cancelled in 1993. For 10 points, name this (*) cat owned by the Clintons.ANSWER: Socks the Cat [I guess you could call him Socks Clinton so prompt on Clinton before the end]?13. Reyan Ali's book about this game for Boss Fight Books opens with this game being tested on location at Dennis' Place for Games and interviews nightclub bouncer Willie Morris, Jr. who was extensively photographed for it. Atari VP Leonard Tramiel was unlockable in the Jaguar version of this game. A 2019 trading card from Walter Day commemorates Tim Kitzrow as "The Voice of" this game, although Kitzrow was almost left off the home ports due to a contract dispute. George Clinton and DJ Jazzy Jeff both have cameos in a version of this game if the player enters a special ? initials / birthdate pair, and Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero was added as a secret character that added a new Rookies team. A special version of game was given to Gary Payton who was not otherwise included in it. For 10 points, name this (*) arcadey basketball game noted for its dunks.ANSWER: NBA Jam [accept NBA Jam: Tournament Edition]?14. One of these creatures joins your party as you quest to find the librarian and get a second bike for Nessa in the Double Fine game Knights and Bikes. The record label Iam8bit released a unique double-grooved vinyl soundtrack for a game titled for one of these creatures to simulate the soundtrack's stochastic nature in the game. A character who shares his first name with the name of these creatures murdered Terry Bogard's father in the backstory of the original Fatal Fury game. A game titled for one of these creatures by ? Australian developer House House has a soundtrack based on Debussy's Preludes. That same game titled for one of these creatures opens with you stealing keys from a groundskeeper and later tasks you with scaring a boy with a toy airplane by honking at him. For 10 points, the player controls an (*) annoying one of what creatures in an "Untitled" game?ANSWER: a goose [or geese; accept Untitled Goose Game; prompt on birds] 15. The standard of charging 25 cents for an arcade game comes from a 1968 electromechanical game where you operated one of these vehicles from Sega. Players who scored more than 50,000 in a Steve Cartwright-developed 2600 game heavily inspired by Defender where you play as one of these things could send away for an iron-on patch from Activision. The shortest full level in UN Squadron has you facing off against one of these vehicles. The Irem shoot 'em up In the Hunt has you playing as these types of vehicles. A Nintendo game originally shown as a tech demo for the DS was made into a ? launch title for the 3DS where you command the ND-01, one of these vehicles. The game Steel Diver centers on these vehicles. For 10 points, the early (*) Sega game Periscope simulated combat in what type of underwater vehicles?ANSWER: submarine [accept nuclear submarine; prompt on a boat or a ship]?16. A compilation of Konami games for this system was the first time Americans could legally play the arcade version of TwinBee, which was given the title RainbowBell. M2's compilation of Namco titles for this system let players pretend to adjust the dip switches on PCBs. Some compilations for this system were released under the New Best Price! 2000 campaign in Japan and include Gyakuten Saiban 2. This system was the first to get a compilation of classic non-videogames such as Old Maid and Darts titled Clubhouse Games. A Namco Museum game for this system supported ? Download Play. Other compilations originally released for this system include the Mega Man Zero Collection, which lets you play four titles released for an earlier handheld. For 10 points, name this (*) handheld system where menus for arcade compilations usually had you using a stylus.ANSWER: Nintendo DS [or DSi; do not accept "3DS"] 17. Enix's PlayStation game Suzuki Bakuhatsu consisted solely of performing this task. Another game that centers on this task increases the difficulty by adding buttons with words that are homophones of each other, and features a print-at-home manual by developer Steel Crate Games. A certain kit can double the speed of this operation on maps like "Cobblestone" and "Prodigy" in one game. A mode named for this task includes just two locations where it can be done in the map ? "Dust II." Reloading weapons interrupted this task in one series prior to the introduction of the Source engine. Along with escape, hostage rescue and assassination, this task names one of the scenarios in Counter-Strike. Player collaborate on this task in the VR game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. For 10 points, name this (*) action usually depicted on TV shows with an expert giving advice to "cut the blue wire."ANSWER: bomb defusal [or bomb disposal; or disarming a bomb] (1) 18. A "quest" named for these objects, noted for its mouse controls, was the first-ever color game to be released for the Macintosh II. These objects are the first word in the title of an isometric Atari riff on Pac-Man where you control Bentley Bear via a trackball. It's not "version," but a device called the Mobile Adapter was supported by a portable game whose title ended with this word that also introduced the Battle Tower. In one of the highest-profile uses of the Game Boy Advance to ? GameCube link cable, players must gather fuel for these title things in a world being devastated by Miasma. These objects title the first Pokémon where you could play as a girl and which provided new options for catching Celebi. For 10 points, name these (*) objects which name some "Chronicles" in a Final Fantasy co-op game.ANSWER: crystals 19. Allan Scarff developed one of the most impressive versions of this game for 8-bit PCs. In 1992, Tim Casey co-developed IGS, also called Pandanet, for playing this game online. It’s not Tetris, but Henk Rogers was able to secure rights to be a third party Famicom developer by promising that he had the world's best version of this game; when he demoed it to an unusually interested Nintendo President Hiorshi Yamauchi, Yamauchi apparently didn't know how to use a controller. That Bullet-Proof Software version of this game limited the playfield to a 9x9 grid. ? Leela Zero is one of the best computer players of this game. Nolan Bushnell used a term from this game to name his videogame company, Atari. In October 2015, a master in this game named Fan Hui was defeated by a DeepMind algorithm. For 10 points, name this (*) board game popular in Asia.ANSWER: Go [or Computer Go]?20. The Super Mario Bros. game of this number for the Dendi was actually a bootleg of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Happy. This number follows "Waku Waku" in a Sunsoft fighting game for the Neo Geo. Richard Garriott claims that the best Ultima game was the one with this number, subtitled The Black Gate. Birdo and Dry Bones were added as unlockable characters in the Mario Party game of this number, the last to be released on the GameCube. The first ? Fire Emblem game to get a US release was actually this number in the series. Tetsuya Nomura returned to direct a remake of a game with this number in its title released for the PlayStation 4 in 2020 that got a new English voice cast for characters like Tifa Lockhart. For 10 points, give this (*) number that titles the PlayStation's first Final Fantasy game.ANSWER: 7????? ................
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