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The Impossible LairA tournament on mostly old videogamesBy Mike BentleySeptember 2020Round 11. A game starring characters in this profession divided into areas like Happy Clam Resort and Hustle Beach features a neat mission where you send fish up a motorized launcher to an aircraft control tower. Meredith Weiss moves to rural Oregon to work in this profession in the upcoming "gentle" game Lake. Players in this profession travel on zip line and speedboats in a collaborative game with ragdoll physics released in 2020 by We're Five Games. A character who works the nightshift in this profession in the original Animal Crossing is named ? Phyllis. Players in this profession work at a "Totally Reliable" business in a recent release. Another Animal Crossing character with this profession, Pete, generally arrives each day at 9:00 AM and moves a blue flag outside the player's house indicating he's been there. For 10 points, name this (*) profession of characters who handle letters sent between villagers in Animal Crossing.ANSWER: mailman [or mail carrier; or postal carrier; or delivery driver; or mail clerk; or courier; prompt on clerk] (1)?2. One of these things created by Tokuma Shoten in 1985 was popular for years in Japan, while George Sullivan created one of the first of these things for the American market. Consumer Reports was weirdly an early leader in making these things. In 2019, Doug Walsh released a memoir titled for his time working on dozens of these things, including an infamous one that redirected purchasers to the website ? . The most prominent website devoted to these things was founded by CJayC and is now a subdomain of GameSpot. A young ikillkenny created one of these things for Golden Sun. Prima Games was one of the leading publishers of these things. For 10 points, name these (*) documents often filled with maps and cheat codes that help you master a game.ANSWER: strategy guide [or walkthrough; or FAQ; or tips and tricks; or Player's Guide; accept more specific answers like a Super Mario Bros. strategy guide or Golden Sun strategy guide or Final Fantasy IX strategy guide; prompt on longplay; prompt on cheat codes] (1)?3. Raiford Guins served as a consultant for an exhibition of this game at the Silicon City exhibit of the New York Historical Society Museum in 2015. One of the only original photos of this game displays it beneath the word "INSTRUMENTATION." An enhanced version of this game displayed on a bigger screen allowed for different gravity levels. This game originally was displayed on a 5- and 1/2-inch oscilloscope during Visitor's Day at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 2008, Scott Coburn, Peter Takacs, and Gene Von Achen recreated this game using period-appropriate germanium transistors for its 50th anniversary. Unlike Pong, this game presents a horizontal perspective, with the ? net in the middle of the screen. For 10 points, name this (*) 1950s-era videogame whose title promises you can simulate a certain racquet sport in multiplayer form.ANSWER: Tennis for Two [or Computer Tennis] (4)?4. A screensaver collection featuring these characters has entries like "Soda Jerks" but I'm having trouble finding any videos to confirm. A game starring these characters opens with a fake intro for Lute Looks. These characters appeared in a Windows 95 theme pack subtitled Calling All Dorks. One game starring these characters features voice samples like "Look, a squirrel!" and has you standing on top of a building spitting on people below. One of these characters tells the other ? "Damnit … you always ruin everything" when you get an answer wrong in their trivia game Weiner Takes All. A Genesis platformer starring these characters has you searching each level for tickets to a GWAR concert. These Highland High students tour a university in another PC game that features one of them turning into Cornholio. For 10 points, name these (*) two slacker characters who title a Mike Judge cartoon for MTV.ANSWER: Beavis and Butt-Head (2)?5. A German student named Marius Fietzek developed a game called The Applicant to try to win an internship with this developer. My favorite game by this developer has a level set on a zeppelin where various industry titans debate ending child labor; that game allows protagonist Charlie Blackmore to possess differently sized Russian dolls. Before being bought by Microsoft, this company published games such as the David OReilly's minimalist Mountain and the sequel to Escape Goat under their "Presents" label. Several of this developer's titles have emerged from an extended game jam called the ? Amnesia Fortnite. This company, founded in 2000 by Tim Schafer, is currently working on the first sequel to a 2005 3D platformer starring Raz, who possesses levitation and other psychic powers. For 10 points, name this (*) developer behind Psychonauts and Broken Age.ANSWER: Double Fine [or Double Fine Productions, Inc.]?6. The untranslated 1994 Sega arcade shooter Ambitions of ZunZun has you playing as one of these things. In their original appearance, Rotodics can only be destroyed when the player takes the form of one of these things. Larry Butz owns two replicas of a famous one of these objects that also doubles as a clock and a murder weapon in the first case in the original Phoenix Wright. We're not looking for a star, but a virtual one of these objects is the source of the meme ? "L is Real 2401" from Super Mario 64. Mario turns into one of these things when the player presses the down button while equipped with the Tanooki Suit. For 10 points, name these (*) objects, the aforementioned Phoenix Wright example being a replica of one created by Auguste Rodin.ANSWER: a statue [accept Jizo statue; or a sculpture; accept The Thinker] (1)?7. Nintendo of Japan sent a special VHS to any players who achieved the Red Ribbon in a game in this genre. After Mike Tyson, the second-ever deal Nintendo signed with a celebrity was for a game in this non-RPG genre that was also the company's first collaboration with Square. In that game in this genre, the player must match both a correct facial expression and text response to avoid the wrath of Miko Nakayama. The Tokimeki Memorial games, long-running examples of this genre, are mostly set in high schools. A game in this genre switches the player's perspective when the game gets to September 2nd and is set in a world partially wiped out by an ? H5N1 pandemic. A version of this type of game is often included in the strategy series Fire Emblem in the form of Support mode. For 10 points, the game (*) Hatoful Boyfriend is an example of what type of game where you try to get romantically involved with someone?ANSWER: dating sims [or romance sim; accept bishōjo games or pretty girl games until mentioned; prompt on visual novel] (2)?8. In its early years, this company published games such as Pump It Up and Real World Golf; years later it would return to publishing with titles like Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge. This company sold products exclusively to Toys R Us under the High Frequency label. One line of Bluetooth-enabled products by this company was known as GameSmart. This company behind the Android micro-console ? MOJO bought competitors Saitek and Joytech in 2007. This company manufactured products with amusing names like the Fazor and the Rumble Rod and it made the Dream Blaster, the official light gun for the Sega Dreamcast. This company partnered with Harmonix to co-publish Rock Band 4, owing to its dominance of hardware required to play that game. For 10 points, name this (*) now-bankrupt company best-known for producing third-party controllers.ANSWER: Mad Catz (3)?9. After getting hooked on this game, David Sudnow wrote the book Pilgrim in the Microworld. AI researches at Vicarious showed how slightly modifying the height of the player-character in this game caused neural net-trained models to perform terribly. Nintendo has never re-released Monkey Magic, a clone of this game involving destroying a monkey's face. On his own initiative, Cliff Spohn used a sci-fi theme for the cover of a 1982 port of the "Super" version of this game for the 2600. The numerous clones of this game in Japan were known by the term ? Block kuzushi. Steve Wozniak famously reduced the number of TTL chips included in the original version of this game. This game starts with the player having to destroy 8 rows of differently colored blocks without the ball falling off the bottom of the screen. For 10 points, name this (*) game, basically a one-player version of Pong.ANSWER: Breakout [or Super Breakout] (2)?10. A 1989 Nintendo press conference used this game to demonstrate the SNES's capability to render kanji even though it never got a 16-bit release. A line of dialogue from this game titles Nathan Altice's excellent entry on the NES in MIT's Platform Studies series. That same bit of dialogue from this game is uttered by a bearded character in an intentionally glitchy hidden room in The Binding of Isaac. The Japanese name of one character in this game is Bagu or Bug, which helps explain the cryptic line spoken by another character, ? "I am Error." This game unusually features no visible enemies on the overworld screen and includes an experience system. In the original Famicom Disk System version, the dungeons are all gray, but the American version of this sequel was put onto a gold cartridge. For 10 points, name this (*) NES sequel noted for its heavy use of side-scrolling combat as you battle through Hyrule.ANSWER: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link?11. ran a contest to write homebrew software for this system that was promoted by Bung Enterprises, makers of a device necessary to run homebrew on it. One of the rarest variants of this console was made for the 30th anniversary of the supermarket chain JUSCO. Developers with devkits for this system could also purchase the Gangwriter to make multiple copies of games. A 3rd-party "Doctor" peripheral allowed this console to play Video CDs. Developers for this system had to purchase Onyx supercomputers that cost over $100,000 each developed by ? Silicon Graphics. The tech for this system was designed by a group of developers known as the "Dream Team" who worked on "Project Reality." This system was teased in arcade games like Cruisin' USA. For 10 points, name this (*) Nintendo console home to Turok and GoldenEye.ANSWER: N64 [or Nintendo 64; or Ultra 64; accept Project Reality before mentioned] (1)?12. A MAGFEST 2020 talk on homebrew titles for a system developed by this company discusses an anti-war game from the 1980s that tallies up how many people you've killed with your nuclear bombs. A console by this company first announced as the "Home Library Computer" had controllers that look a lot like Zeecraft buzzers with the signaling button replaced with a dial. This company takes its name from the first pinball game it manufactured way back in 1932 and four decades later released the Astrovision. This company, along with an alphabetically later ? Chicago-based manufacturing company, was the American distributor of Space Invaders and Pac-Man. For 10 points, name this (*) company that merged with Midway in 1981 and shares its name with some "Total Fitness" centers.ANSWER: Bally [or Williams-Bally-Midway; or Bally Manufacturing; or Bally Technologies; prompt on just Midway or Williams] (2)?13. The "Action & Answer Tour" mode in one game in this series added trivia to the normal fare and included a boss fight on a type of roller coaster against Omega. The plot of one entry in this series involves keeping the Excitement Battery charged and is partially set in the year 1964, which is represented with retro pixel graphics. The first game in this series featured a minigame that starts the player 10,000 meters above the sea and is basically like one of the skydiving segments in Pilotwings. Several entries in this series have spiced things up with ? Dream Events. In one entry in this series, one character invents the Waluigiscope to try to get an edge. A Wii U entry in this series included a face-off against Birdo in an Ice Hockey event. For 10 points, name this (*) series where mascots from Nintendo and Sega compete in events like volleyball and track and field.ANSWER: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [or Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Summer Games; or Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games] (2)?14. This is the last word in the name of a computer that could be upgraded with a second CPU by soldering ("soddering") on an accessory called The Tube. This is the last word in the name of a 60th anniversary console whose red variant came with two Megami Tensei Gaiden games. This word is the last in the name of a computer designed by Acorn featured on the TV show The Computer Programme. A computer with this last word in its name was the lead platform for the game Elite. It's also the last word in the name of a handheld with awkward shoulder buttons that broke backwards compatibility with the ? Game Boy Color. This word follows "BBC" in a system popular in British classrooms in the 1980s. Sega recently released a version of the Game Gear with this word at the end. For 10 points, name this (*) word that names a type of "game" smaller than "minigames" introduced in the WarioWare series.ANSWER: micro [accept microgames] (2)?15. For an oral history on this series, Polygon traced the story of background references to Ristorante Donnaloia to sales VP Bill Cravens in its first game. Hong Kong artist Xu Jingchen produced 100 issues of an unlicensed comic based on this game series. In 2016, the developer of this series finally gave the names Scott and Max to two characters who appear in the attract mode of the best-known game in this series. The Hong Kong flick Future Cops shamelessly ripped off this series, which was also parodied in the movie City Hunter by Jackie Chan. The success of the first game in this series may have been hampered by its use of ? punch pad controls rather than buttons. The Rainbow Edition bootleg of a game in this series let characters use special moves in the air and inspired the faster speed in an official Turbo edition. For 10 points, name this (*) Capcom series starring brawlers like Guile and Ryu.ANSWER: Street Fighter (1)?16. Description acceptable. Level 8 of the Namco shooter Dragon Spirit is even more difficult than the rest of the game because it has this characteristic. Lin and Sonja are two COs in the Advance Wars series who specialize in levels with this characteristic. The player is assisted in countering this condition in the only appearance of Squawks the ? Parrot in the original Donkey Kong Country game. Ambushes can only happen in Advance Wars levels with this characteristic. Jack Wedge became the first person to beat Mike Tyson's Punch-Out while physically experiencing this limitation. Opposing players are temporarily impeded by this type of affliction when the Blooper weapon is used in Mario Kart 8. For 10 points, name this (*) limitation present in RTS games when fog of war is enabled.ANSWER: limited sight [accept anything like the level is dark or you can't see well or being blindfolded; accept fog of war before the end] (2)?17. This thing is the largest object on the cover of the Sega SG-1000 educational game Chuugaku Hisshuu Ei Bunpou. It's not a portrait of Chairman Mao, but this thing watches in horror as characters like Alli, Tango and Abdul fight in Hawk's stage in the terrible Sega fighting game Best of Best. A possessed version of this thing is the boss of one stage of the NES game Zombie Nation. In The Hyperstone Heist, the first TMNT game on the Genesis, this thing disappears in the opening sequence. ClayFighter: Sculptor's Cut added a playable character based on this thing who could knock an opponent off ? her island in a claytality. This thing holds a coffee cup in a parody in Grand Theft Auto IV. The terrorist group Silhouette blows up this monument in Deus Ex, leaving it without a head. For 10 points, a (*) ClayFighter character with moves like Crown of Flames and Torch Strike was based on what New York City monument?ANSWER: Statue of Liberty [accept Lady Liberty] (2)?18. The studio behind this game developed a never-released Doom-clone nicknamed "Gloom" for the publisher's insistence that enemies get stuck to the ground rather than killed. A level in a sequel to this Cinematronics game tasked players with helping a mad scientist fend off a mob as they built Frankenstein's Monster. Most people didn't play the expanded stand-alone version of this game that included Skulduggery and Dragon's Keep modes. Support for this game was ended supposedly due to a collision detection bug that happened with a shift to 64-bit ? operating systems. In this game, players strive to achieve the rank of Fleet Admiral by hitting lighted ramps and targets. This game almost shipped with graphics that more closely matched the clouds in the OS it was packaged with. For 10 points, name this (*) pack-in game for Windows 95 that simulates a type of arcade game noted for the use of flippers.ANSWER: 3D Pinball [or Full Tilt! Pinball; accept Space Cadet Pinball] (3)?19. Note: you can give either the series name or the first game in the series for this question. A mech game that originally was slated for the Shock Wave series and ultimately released under the title Future Cop LAPD was once developed as the final "Future" entry in this series. The second game in this series was the first 16-megabit cartridge published by EA and had you facing off against enemies like drug baron Carlos Ortega and Ibn Kilbaba, the son of the first game's antagonist. One entry in this series included an attack on the World Trade Center years before 9/11 and was the ? "Urban" entry. The first game in this series, developed by Granite Bay Software, had the working title of Beirut Breakout; the game's final title benefited from coming out near the First Gulf War and had you commanding an Apache helicopter. For 10 points, name this (*) series of EA war simulators whose original 16-bit game was titled for a "Desert."ANSWER: Strike [or Desert Strike] (3)?20. The enemies in the 1991 Japanese-only Konami shoot 'em up Yume Penguin Monogatari fire weapons that cause this stat to change in the game's hero. Characters like priests, pirates and giant chickens work to change this characteristic of the title characters in a Titan Studios game for the PlayStation 3. An acoustic song with lyrics like "I know I do" starts playing when the player grabs a scientist with an unusual value for this characteristic in ? Splosion Man. Players could choose between athletes with three different types of this characteristic in the NES Hockey game. Some of the craziest speedrunners out there attempt to get to Level 30 in a Switch game that is ostensibly about altering this characteristic through the use of a Ring-Con controller. The game that introduced the Balance Board notably did not show this statistic, opting to use BMI instead. For 10 points, name this (*) statistic measured with a scale.ANSWER: weight [accept fitness or being fat; prompt on size] (1) ................
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