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New Tricks Your TV Can Do: Another Videogame PacketBy Mike BentleyDecember 2018?Round 1: Tossups?1. The plot of the Atari 8-Bit title Henry's House is set in motion when the hero performs this action. Sonic is unable to use a power that causes this effect on Mario in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. How High, Fly Guy? and Rhythm and Boo are two of the mini-games in Mario Party 4 that can only be played by players in this state. A game that centers around this type of effect includes ? kinstones to collect and introduced the character of Ezlo. The CPU-controlled weapon fired by (*) Princess Peach in Super Mario Kart causes this effect, which is also inflicted on other racers with the lightning bolt powerup. For 10 points, name this power bestowed on the player by obtaining a mini mushroom in New Super Mario Bros.ANSWER: shrinking yourself [accept equivalents like making yourself tiny]?2. This series was once controlled by the Hawaii-based Blue Planet Software. An upside-down mode was included in a Disney version of this game. Enormous red and green joysticks feature in Sega's "Giant" arcade version. The last variant of this game to be directly programmed by its original creator filled the screen with an ugly-looking face when the player wasn't doing well. The creator of this series is partial to the Japanese-only ? Battle Gaiden for the Super Famicom. Kevin Birrell was the first American to achieve a level of mastery in this series. A "tougher" challenge to this game developed by Nintendo focused mainly on color matching, effectively combining its concept with (*) Dr. Mario. A recent game combined this game with Puyo Puyo. It was originally written for the text-only Electronika 60 computer. For 10 points, name this game invented by Alexey Pajitnov and included as a GameBoy pack-in title.ANSWER: Tetris?3. One early sequence of this type takes place in front of a room with a painting of two tigers on it and involves two teams of men standing on each other's shoulders holding planks of wood. In a recent game, one of these sequences re-ruses the Europe: Historic Distillery stage. One of these sequences takes place in a setting extremely similar to Battle Harbor and gives ? 100 points for each second left on the clock at the end. One of these sequences has you practicing your parry skills as Shaun throws basketballs at you. The harder of two versions of one of these sequences has you trying to (*) break 9 concrete blocks. Home versions of one game got rid of one of these sequences involving oil drums but did include the one with 20 barrels falling down a conveyer belt. For 10 points, name these modes where you might attempt to destroy a car using E. Honda's fast-moving arms.ANSWER: Street Fighter 2 bonus rounds [or Street Fighter 2 minigames]?4. The first game in this series, the only one demoed for its system at ECTS one year, sold in the UK for about ?101.70 in today's currency owing to a lack of competing titles. Lost players in the first game in this series are advised to look for yellow colored life force triangles, which also earn you an extra life if 100 are collected. The first game in this series tasked players with finding parts to the ? Chronoscepter which is also sought by the Campaigner. This series traces its origins to a 1954 comic by Western Publishing that paired its title character with his brother, Andar. A Game Boy entry in this series was subtitled Battle of the (*) Bionosaurs. Computer & Videogame Magazine gave both the first entry in this series and fellow launch title Super Mario 64 a perfect score. A 2008 reboot of this shooter had you playing as a "Native American space marine." For 10 points, name this series of dinosaur hunting games.ANSWER: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter?5. A game that uses this type of controller has subtitles according to the kuchi shoga system. A large version of the protagonist is on-screen at all times in the lower-left hand corner of a platformer using one of these controllers. RedOctane made a third-party controller of this type for the PS2 that supported the ? Edge Hits of the official one made by Namco. A controller of this type was bundled with a PS2 game that included Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, "Tubthumping" and the "Jimmy Neutron Theme". The player commands characters using a virtual one of these objects in (*) Patapon. A controller of this type was also able to register claps. The GameCube platforming game Donkey Kong Jungle Beat was controlled using a controller of this type. For 10 points, name this instrument included alongside guitars and microphones in Rock Band.ANSWER: drum [or bongos; or taiko]?6. The Japanese-only Genesis game Ninkuu Gaiden: Hiroyuki Daikatsugeki starred one of these creatures and was essentially a sequel to a 1982 Sega arcade game also starring one of these animals where the game increases in difficulty when certain bees transform into blobs. That same Sega arcade game starring a red one of these animals has you pushing blocks around the screen. A lazy animal of this type in Animal Crossing wears a shirt with the letters ? BB on it and is named Puck. The player receives the dash from a Dr. Light hologram in a stage named for this type of animal in Mega Man X. The player receives a star for reuniting a (*) baby one of these animals with its mother in a level in Super Mario 64 where you also race one of these animals down Cool, Cool Mountain. For 10 points, King Dedede from Kirby is what type of animal that often appears in ice stages?ANSWER: penguin?7. It’s not pixel art, but the semi-completed Doc Entertainment game Destination: Centauri Online had this graphic style. The first arcade game to employ this type of effect was also one of the first to be advertised on television and is set within Asteroid City. Lots of developers copied Ultimate Play the Game titles that used this style like Knight Lore and Alien 8. The engine for the first arcade game to use this technique powered later titles that also used this style such as Future Spy and ? Congo Bongo. The player fights the title Zaxxons in a 1982 Sega game that used this style; that game uses a shadow to keep track of the ship's place on the ground. A 2015 Kotaku article claims that Populous, (*) Theme Hospital and SimCity 2000 are two of the best games to use this perspective. This perspective is used to give a 3D-type effect in Q*bert. For 10 points, name this type of perspective of shooters which scroll diagonally upwards.ANSWER: isometric perspective [or axonometric perspective; prompt on stuff like fake-3d]?8. Players were told "your save data has been restored" if one but not two of the battery backups failed in the first entry in this series. SMS Power released an improved translation of the first game in this series in 2008, and the first 3D Ages PS2 game was an update of the same title. Yuji Naka described making himself motion sick playing the first-person corridor sections in the first entry in this series. The first game in this series innovatively placed a female protagonist on the cover and centered on avenging the death of ? Nero and defeating King Lassic. Some of these games are set in Algol. A game in this series had four players at a time travel to the Pioneer 2 hub and then fight in the caves, mines, ruins or forest alongside their (*) mag creatures. C.A.R.D Revolution was a sequel to one of the MMO entries in this series. For 10 points, name this series of futuristic Sega RPGs.ANSWER: Phantasy Star [or Phantasy Star Online; or PSO]?9. This technology was more advanced than the DSP-1. This technology was developed by a studio that had proved its technical chops with a Japanese-only 3D shooter titled X. The first game to make use of this technology was adapted from a tech demo called NesGlider. This technology was a rival to Capcom's ? CX4. The cancelled game Comanche utilized this technology, as did a ski and luge simulator called Winter Gold. It was developed by the British studio Argonaut Software. The second version of this technology was used to create "morphmation" in a (*) Shigeru Miyamoto game that deliberately adopted cartoon graphics rather than pre-rendered polygons. One game utilizing this technology didn't get an official release until the SNES Mini. For 10 points, name this chip that helped bring 3D graphics to games such as Star Fox.ANSWER: Super FX chip [or Super FX 2; prompt on 3D I guess]?10. A ZX Spectrum clone by Mr. Micro of a game based on this novel was given a new theme of Punch and Judy to avoid a lawsuit. For some strange reason, the protagonist of this novel starred in a rip-off of Konami's Track & Field sometimes known by the title Herbie at the Olympics. The first licensed game released by Ocean Software was based on this novel, although it's pretty likely the game originally was going to star Robin Hood. An entry in the Topsy Turvey Games series based on this novel has a mini-game where players try to pop each other's balloons like in Joust. A world based on a film adaptation of this novel didn't include the characters of the ? Archdeacon and Clopin and first appeared in the Dream Drop Distance version of Kingdom Hearts. A film based on this novel had Jason Alexander voicing a (*) gargoyle. For 10 points, name this novel centering on the bell-ringer Quasimodo.ANSWER: The Hunchback of Notre Dame [prompt on just Hunchback]?11. Series and platform required. We're looking for an answer such as Madden on the SNES. The first of the games in this series was contracted out to a newly established third-party developer called Ancient. A developer called Aspect introduced mine cart levels into this series. The first game in this series introduced the pinball flippers that would be seen in the second game in the series on a more powerful platform. A game in this series replaced ? Alex Kidd in Miracle World as the system's European pack-in title. It's not a handheld, but pre-rendered graphics were used for the final entry in this series on this platform subtitled Blast. The first entry in this series didn't let you collect (*) rings you lost when hit. The opening theme for a later CD entry originally appeared as a tune in Green Hills Zone in the second game in this series. For 10 points, name this series of games on an 8-bit home Sega system.ANSWER: Sonic on the Sega Master System?12. A Vic-20 game with this title ends if your airplane gets too low and crashes into a building. A series with this name includes Chris James, a character whose profile art has him riding a reindeer while wearing a space suit. A game mechanic of this name combined turn-based and real-time aspects and was used to power battles in the PS3-era ? Valkyria Chronicles titles. This is the second title word in a mobile game that introduces amplifiers, nukes, and inversions as power-ups and lets you assign blocks via a one touch control. EA released an iOS Tetris game with this word in the title. One series with this name included teams such as the New York Nightmare and Mexico City Aztecs. That same series of this name let you (*) juice players with a cortisone shot and perform all sorts of unpenalized pass interference. For 10 points, name this word that follows NFL in a violent Midway arcade football game.ANSWER: Blitz [accept NFL Blitz or Tetris Blitz]?13. Will Anderson wrote a 350-page design document for an RPG that was thrown out and turned into a platformer starring a character from this brand. Amiga Power really liked a boring Reversi game with this license. Sega Pro magazine reviewed a never released game starring this brand's European mascot Fido Dido. A Game Boy game with this brand was a port of the McDonald's themed MC Kids. Dave Perry saved a game with this license which opens with the protagonist ? surfing on a bottle. David Bishop was inspired by Sonic 3D to force a Hollywood-themed sequel in this universe to use an isometric perspective. An excellent platformer starring a sunglass wearing character from this brand opens with (*) Shell Shock, a beach level where you need to collect a bunch of red dots to continue. For 10 points, name this soda brand featured in the Cool Spot games.ANSWER: 7-Up [anti-prompt on Cool Spot before mentioned]?14. A Japanese-only version of this game for the Famicom Disk System added Nagatanien World and came with a contest to send in high scores for keychains and free games. A Hudson variant on this game added dollar signs to the Test Your Skill mode and appeared on Japanese home computers. Another Hudson Soft version of this game is titled for the newly introduced weapons of Punch Balls. It took years until ? jump-proof Shell Creeper enemies appeared in a game besides this one. A link-cable enabled version of this game was included for free with Superstar Saga and four different (*) GBA remakes. This game could be triggered by the non-controlling player hitting start on the world map in Super Mario Bros. 3. Enemies touching the ground are flipped over when the player hits the POW block in this game. For 10 points, Luigi was introduced in what non-scrolling Nintendo arcade game?ANSWER: Mario Bros. [do NOT accept "Super Mario Bros."]?15. The 16th of 26 versions of a game titled for this profession is subtitled Empress and features some levels that unlock via the e-Amusement program. One character in this profession narrates a game whose first level ends with a boss fight against Captain Onishima. Neil Patrick Harris voiced a member of the Sons of Samedi named ? Veteran Child who was also in this profession in Saints Row 2. A character in this profession named Professor K features in the Jet Set Radio games. A character named for having this profession is named Whoo Kidd and appeared in games subtitled (*) Bulletproof and Blood on the Sand. A controller to simulate this profession included a Euphoria button, 3 stream buttons and a crossfader. Konami's Beatmania has you playing as one of these people. For 10 points, name this profession of characters such as Deadmau5 in a namesake Hero game.ANSWER: DJ?16. Poor quality art made for this game prompted Rich Geldreich to post character models in the developer's bathrooms. This game was to feature an alien race called Sway when it was still being developed under the title Phoenix. This was the last AAA title the founders of Newtoy worked on before cashing in with Words with Friends. This game takes place on the new-to-the-universe planet of ? Arcadia. The heroes of this game are UNSC soldiers aboard the Spirit of Fire. This game's control scheme was kept simple by restricting base building to pre-defined templates. It was the final game worked on by (*) Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios. The final version of this game didn't include the scene from the E3 demo where Warthogs jump over ravines. For 10 points, Master Chief was absent from what Xbox 360 real time strategy game?ANSWER: Halo Wars?17. This word precedes "League" in the title of a Japanese-only N64 baseball game developed by Hudson Soft. This is the second word in the name of a Super Famicom service where players could download eight different versions of Picross onto a flash card. This is the first word in the title of Anamanguchi's ? first album, which was released as an NES cartridge in 2016. The GBA version of Mario Tennis was subtitled for this type of Tour. This is the first word in the name of a controller developed by Bandai that worked with the music title Dance Aerobics and was included with a (*) Zapper in NES bundles that came with World Class Track Meet. After eating a pellet of this name, Pac-Man can start eating ghosts. For 10 points, give this second word in the title of a popular magazine produced by Nintendo.ANSWER: Power [accept Power Pad or Power Supply or Nintendo Power]?18. Description acceptable. A Game Gear title starring a holder of this political office was reskinned for an American audience to take place in Segaville and had you adjusting conveyer belts to defeat Mr. Greede. The Japanese version of Factory Panic starred a man who held this political office. The player guides the hands of a person who holds this position in a PC game where you do things like pick up the phone, smoke a cigar, and place your finger dangerously close to a big ? red button. Cartboard Games released a Steam game titled for calming down a holder of this office. In a "parody RTS" released in 2009, one holder of this post faces off against Martian invaders. In Civilization 4: Warlords, a holder of this office has the unique building of the Research Institute and the unique unit of the (*) Cossack. For 10 points, name this political office held by Joseph Stalin.ANSWER: head of the Soviet Union [or President of the Soviet Union; of General Secretary of the Communist Party; accept anything involving the head of government in the USSR] (Factory Panic is called Ganbare Gorubī and has you playing as Mikhail Gorbachev)?19. One game titled for these things opens by allowing you to choose between people such as Jerome, Hakeem and Charise on a radio call-in program. The only 0/10 Game Informer ever gave was to a game centering around these things which opens with a girl entering her brother's room and saying "he's so cute" and "he's too sexy for his shirt." The player unscrambled tiles of these things in the Jaguar pack-in game ? Vid Grid. A series of Sega CD games by Digital Pictures allowed users to "Make My" work of this type; one such title featured a young Mark Wahlberg. Games where you made these things were titled for (*) Kris Kross and INXS. Like on the TV show, three of these things are included in the Virtual Stupidity game starring Beavis and Butt-head. For 10 points, name these short films regularly aired during the first decade of MTV.ANSWER: music videos [prompt on videos]?20. Specific answer required. In a photo from a New York celebration of this event at a Toys R' Us, Jonathan Taylor Thomas is dwarfed by an enormous mascot and his equally enormous denim jacket. 28 Emery Worldwide freight planes were commissioned for the airlift that made this event possible. Fans celebrating this event in 2010 tried to destroy a score achieved by Melissa Joan Hart on a prototype cartridge. CEO ? Tom Kalinske called this event "an unprecedented success" even though it was technically held on a different date in Japan due to laws passed after kids skipped school to buy Dragon Quest III. Participants in this event would soon go home and play levels like Oil Ocean (*) Zone and Emerald Hill Zone maybe as their little brothers controlled the newly introduced character of Miles "Tails" Prower. For 10 points, name this November 24th, 1992 holiday which saw an international release of a sequel to a certain Sega platformer.ANSWER: Sonic 2sday [prompt on stuff like the release of Sonic 2]?Round 2: Speed Check?1. The thing that players control in the Sega arcade title Up'n Down was clearly inspired by this real-life product. For 10 points, players look for Point Crates in levels like Mount Mayhem in a Paradigm Entertainment N64 game where what type of car engage in Adventure Racing?ANSWER: Volkswagen Beetle [or VW Bug]?2. Some 1,663 versions of Tempest were made in this style, compared with 2,176 "cabaret" versions and 25,112 "regular" versions. These types of systems often switched the screen orientation when play passed from one player to another. For 10 points, name these types of arcade cabinets that made it easy to rest your beer when you were playing Pac-Man.ANSWER: cocktail arcade cabinets [or table cabinets]?3. The ANSER accessory for the Genesis could be paired with a very expensive one of these devices. For 10 points, what type of device utilized thermal technology and could be paired with the Game Boy camera?ANSWER: printer?4. The player is subjected to a simulation of this effect in a 1999 non-pinball arcade game starring Uncle Fester from the Addams Family. Most modern arcade games that claim to use this effect actually use vibration. For 10 points, the player grips two handles in an arcade game that simulates execution by what method via "13,200 volts"?ANSWER: electric shock?5. The host of this program asked, "How do you tune it in?" after the Magnavox Odyssey was revealed to be the mystery guest in 1972. For 10 points, name this classic game show once hosted by Wally Bruner where celebrities had to guess a contestant's occupation.ANSWER: What's My Line??6. Secret Quest is one of the few Atari 2600 games to include this feature. For 10 points, 12 Met enemies are used for what type of system in Mega Man X employed by publishers too cheap to include battery backup in their games? ANSWER: password system?7. A skunk who apparently likes this type of music titles a crappy Ukiyotei game originally planned for the Super Famicom but released on the PlayStation. For 10 points, a band who plays a pop form of what music got their own Rock Band game where you played songs such as "Basket Case" and "Welcome to Paradise"?ANSWER: punk music [or punk rock; or pop punk; prompt on rock; prompt on alt rock]?8. In one troubling passage from Psychological Profiles of the Vidiot by Game, the author proclaims that this game "is a video addiction preferred by female Vidiots (so right away, you know there is something funny about a guy who plays this game.)" The book also features a drawing of a woman smoking a post-coital cigarette next to a cabinet of this game. For 10 points, name this Namco game that dared to replace manly stuff like guns and space with eating dots and fruit.ANSWER: Pac-Man?9. The second episode of a 1981 cartoon based on this character introduced a pixelated villain named Video Man who appeared in a later episode as a hero facing off against Gamesman. For 10 points, Neversoft made games about what superhero who in a 2018 Insomniac title does a lot of swinging between buildings?ANSWER: Spider-Man?10. A Midway game titled for the year 2003 that allows you to play this sport very violently features a player grabbing another character's dick on the cover. For 10 points, the Inazuma Eleven series is about what sport, also played in Super Mario Strikers?ANSWER: soccer [or association football]?11. In 1993, this company published an environmentally-themed platformer titled Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt. For 10 points, name this company that, like Atari, made its own black, unlicensed NES games such as Pac-Man and also released arguably the best version of NES Tetris.ANSWER: Tengen?12. Gizmondo utilized this operating system, as did slow-loading titles such as Worms Armageddon, Tomb Raider Chronicles and Virtua Cop 2 for the Dreamcast. For 10 points, name this embedded operating system by Microsoft.ANSWER: Windows CE [or Windows Embedded CE; prompt on Windows]?13. Mike Dupong's game Laser Chess was originally released via this format, as was Model B Computing's 1985 game Downhill Racer. For 10 points, the staff of Antic spent a lot of time ensuring that there weren't typos in the painstaking transmission of games in what manner?ANSWER: magazine type-in [accept equivalents that indicate that you're entering in the code from a book or magazine]?14. A Taito arcade game where you drive one of these vehicles has a minigame where you have to collect turtles from a pool. For 10 points, identify these vehicles, a real-world example of which was Marion 6360, nicknamed The Captain, and used for scooping tasks when coal mining.ANSWER: power shovel [or stripping shovel; or front shovel; or electric mining shovel; or Electric Rope Shovel]?15. This character's catchphrase is "Time to bring home the bacon" in Street Fighter X Tekken. For 10 points, name this character with an enormous yellow-and-blue stomach and holding a Mega Buster that appeared on retail shelves circa 1988.ANSWER: Bad Box art Mega-Man [or U.S. Mega Man; or fat Mega-Man; prompt on Mega-Man]?16. In the early 2000s, some retailers investigated having you bring in these items to stores and go home with games. For 10 points, the Nero Burning program originally gained popularity in letting you make these things, presumably with MP3s you downloaded from Napster.ANSWER: CD-R [or rewritable CD; prompt on CD or CD-ROM]?17. In a Winkysoft NES game based on this novel, the player strangely has to fight a gorilla and an octopus. Square's racist RPG version of this novel for the NES replaces the love interest with "Amy". For 10 points, in both games based on what novel did you encounter characters like Sid and Injun Joe?ANSWER: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?18. A 1982 release by Century Electronics tasked the player with preventing suicides at this title location. For 10 points, the player has to scrounge to receive a hefty inheritance from the Benedict family in an NES game titled for a kid of what New York center of finance?ANSWER: Wall Street ?19. These things became easier after the release of the JAMMA standard, although in the early days operators often improvised by buying new PCBs. An unauthorized one of these things changed Pac-Man cabinets to play Crazy Otto. For 10 points, identify these packages which allowed arcade owners to change existing cabinets to play new games.ANSWER: arcade conversion kits [or Mod kits; or upgrade kits; accept PCB kits before PCB is mentioned]?20. Players needed to inflate a controller in the form of one of these vehicles in a Japan-only accessory for the Famicom game Top Rider. For 10 points, some versions of Yu Suzuki's Hang-On had you riding on what type of vehicle?ANSWER: motorcycle [or motorbike]??Round 3: Tossups?1. A 2002 game with this graphic style features a soundtrack of remixed Commodore 64 compositions and has the player battling her ship against the forces of Colossatropolis. The player shoots fish and octopuses in front of a background of floating strawberries and bananas in a game with this graphical style called Nux. A sequel to one game with this graphic style added new characters such as a human banana. The horizontal shooter Platypus has this graphical style. Midway made its Pac-Man clone Trog more interesting by adding violence and this graphic style. The ? Elvis impersonator Blue Suede Goo appears in a fighting series in this style whose games included Sculptor's Cut. Telltale's "Fright of the Bumblebees" was based on characters rendered in this style who also appeared in a game version of The (*) Curse of the Were-Rabbit. For 10 points, name this graphical style of the Clayfighter games.ANSWER: claymation [or clay animation]?2. A real-life designer with this first name changed a "bread box" to be more angular so as to discourage kids from resting drinks on the console. That same designer with this first name replaced the "colors of the rainbow" pattern on a controller with different shades of lavender for his controversial American design for the SNES. A character with this first name is apparently fluent in six languages and is one of the instructors alongside Tony, Shirley and Big Al in the original ? Pilotwings. A trainer with this first name who is the cousin of Clair owns a Level 60 (*) Aerodactyl and a Level 62 Dragonite and is encountered after you defeat Agatha. For 10 points, give this first name of the last member of the Elite Four before you face your rival in Pokemon Red and Blue.ANSWER: Lance [accept Lance Barr]?3. Fiachara made an unofficial version of this game for the DS. Unused data hidden on this game's disc shows that the player would have been able to use coins to pay for a train system that was replaced with warp points. Speedrunners of this game employ the Rocket Rollouts trick and have to deal with RNG in the final boss battle involving a tub of ? green goo. One of the more difficult tasks in this game is staying on top of the Sand Bird after traveling to the broken egg in a tower in one level. The player serves as a human pachinko ball in a level of this game set in a (*) plaza. It wasn't a launch title, but Professor E. Gadd invented this game's main gimmick, the Flash Liquidiser Ultra Dousing Device or FLUDD. Some speed-runners strive to collect 120 shines in this game. For 10 points, name this Mario game for the GameCube.ANSWER: Super Mario Sunshine?4. An early form of this technology could "activate" the Genesis version of Streets of Rage 3. Hopefully your QVC-watching grandma didn't buy you a $39 console whose gimmick was this technology made by Jakks Pacific. This non-VR tech powered Razer's ? Hydra and came bundled with some versions of Portal 2. Echochrome II was released for an accessory centered on this tech. It's not force-feedback, but one game to employ this technology has you using it to keep Kitty Kawaii out of water in Purrfect Balance, one of Mona's microgames in a GBA sequel. It's not music, but one of the best games for an accessory that made use of this technology was the (*) graphics-free title Johann Sebastian Joust. WarioWare: Twisted! made use of this technology. For 10 points, name this type of control which many people experienced for the first time playing Wii Sports.ANSWER: motion controls [or gyroscopes; or accelerometers]?5. In Japan, a special "Number Battle" version of the Sujin Taisen series was made for this service. Six adaptations of Master of Illusion were made for a line of "Express" games on this service. One of the better launch titles for this service was WayForward's game about a wizardess named Alta titled Mighty Flip Champs! The protagonist of an 8-bit title for this service was named after ? talk show host Jimmy Fallon. A free first-party title for this service was a clever paint adaptation called Flipnote Studio. The Risky's Revenge entry in the Shantae series debuted on this platform. While downloading from this service, (*) Toad and Luigi would place liquid into a block. It was where you could first buy the Minis March Again entry in Mario vs. Donkey Kong. For 10 points, name this first downloadable game service for Nintendo handhelds, named for a slight enhancement to a dual screened Nintendo system.ANSWER: DSiWare [prompt on DSi]?6. Description acceptable. Hans Hansen was tasked with converting real-life images to the graphic format used by this title, which was developed in 10 months to meet a conference deadline. One of two known prototype versions of this title was rescued from a trash bin outside of Midway Games in 2003. The ? yoke controls of this project were repurposed for a Star Wars title. This title ended if the player guided a TOW missile into an ally. Ed Rotberg reluctantly coded this title despite being a (*) pacifist. This title arose after a thinktank approached Atari asking it to adapt one of its titles to place the player within an Infantry Fighting Vehicle. For 10 points, name this custom version of an innovative vector graphics tank game.ANSWER: the Army version of Battlezone [or Bradley Trainer; accept anything that indicates it's a special version of Battlezone made for the US military]?7. I wasn't able to verify from a long play video a Wikipedia claim that a parody of this place exists in the Tyrannosaurus Wrecks Hub level of Crash Tag Team Racing. A parody of this place makes up the background of the Shadaloo headquarters in a stage in Street Fighter V. In Fatal Fury Special, Terry Bogard's stage is set in front of this thing. The second USA stage in the original Street Fighter game is set in front of this place. Sam will sing "The ? Name Game" while at this location in Sam & Max Hit the Road. Wario makes a cameo in Pilotwings 64 in the Little States level when you (*) fire a missile into a version of this place. For 10 points, name this landmark that would have made up the last level had someone made a videogame adaptation of North by Northwest, a tacky art project by Gutzon Borglum in South Dakota.ANSWER: Mount Rushmore?8. Apparently one of these objects can be found underneath the track on the hairpin turn in the Mario Circuit course in Mario Kart: Super Circuit. In the 3DS remake of Majora's Mask, one of these objects appears to the right of the furnace in the Bomb Shop. Wario uses one of these devices as a special move in Mario Power Tennis. The player uses one of these objects while barbecuing in the WiiWare exclusive "Grill-Off with [This Object]". Users had to ? pull a red string to cause the suction cups on this device to activate. This device was designed by Gunpei Yokoi and helped Nintendo branch out of cards and into toys. The player is given the instruction "Grab!" in a WarioWare microgame using one of these objects. For 10 points, name this device for (*) gripping far away objects, whose name sort-of combines a codename for the N64 and a Smash Bros. boss.ANSWER: Ultra Hand?9. For a time, there wasn't a way to play Pyramid Magic and Flicky for the Genesis without one of these accessories. The first-ever Sonic spin-off, Sonic Eraser, required one of these accessories to originally play it. It's not a CD-ROM drive, but one of these accessories was used in conjunction with the Sega Game Toshokan cartridge for Japanese Genesis owners and allowed players to play several entries in the puzzle series Pyramid Magic. Software called XBC and WarpPipe interfaced with this accessory. The Japanese-only title Homeland was one of the few ? GameCube titles to make use of this type of accessory. (*) ChuChu Rocket was one of the first console games in the US to make use of this type of accessory. The Dreamcast and Xbox were both hailed for including one of these accessories with the console. For 10 points, name this type of accessory that let your Dreamcast browse the internet.ANSWER: modem [or broadband adapter; or dial-up modem adapter; or ethernet adapter; or network adapter]?10. Some of the more memorable animations in this game came from putting Duncan Bottwood in a mo-cap suit, blindfolding him, and then randomly slapping him. Ethan is a 19-time world champion in this game in a 2017 film billed as "The World's First Video Game Mockumentary." One of the only women to work on this game, B. Jones, is listed in its credits as "costume designer" and described how she came up with four different 64x32 pixel ?tuxedo textures. Reloading in this game would have originally been done by removing and then inserting the rumble pack. One developer of this game, Martin Hollis, received a fax from (*) Shigeru Miyamoto calling the game "horrible" and "tragic" and suggesting that players be forced to shake hands with everyone they killed at the end of the game. For 10 points, name this seminal N64 shooter starring James Bond.ANSWER: Goldeneye?11. Developers were so mad that a launch title for this accessory included all minigames unlocked from the get-go that they threatened to take their names off the credits. Rick Marks first demoed this accessory by fighting off a hoard of spiders. A minigame for this accessory had you getting the attention of a taxi from Crazy Taxi. Before hitting it big with Guitar Hero, Harmonix made the flying skateboard simulator ? Antigrav for this accessory. One early title for this accessory was an homage to Fantavision while another had you on the outside of buildings cleaning windows. The minigame (*) Wishi Washi was one of the best included in a launch title for this accessory. If you had this accessory you could map your own face into Tony Hawk's Underground 2. Some people have turned this USB-compatible device into a Skype accessory. For 10 points, name this camera accessory for the PlayStation 2.ANSWER: EyeToy [do NOT accept "PlayStation Eye" or "PlayStation Camera"]?12. This videogame is similar in name to a line of what the Before Mario blog calls "the most spectacular toys in the Nintendo Kousenjuu series," some of which featured lions. An earlier version of this game was designed by Gunpei Yokoi in 1974 and tasked players with reacting to the title character's eyes turning red; that earlier version of this game offered one of two film clips depending on the player's speed. Apparently, Chopin's "Funeral March" plays when the player loses in this game. The enemy in this game shouts ? "FIRE!!" in a speech bubble and this game which is reasonably similar to Hogan's Alley. The Japanese version of this game could be bought with an accessory that mimicked the Colt Single Action Army revolver. For 10 points, name this early NES game where the player uses a Zapper in a (*) wild west setting.ANSWER: Wild Gunman [accept Custom Gunman or Custom Lion on first clue]?13. An excellent song from chiptune pop-punk band The Superbytes' first full-length album claims "It's never too late" to perform this action. An unadvertised feature in the arcade version of Sega's Power Drift lets you look in the rearview mirror by performing this action. NicksplosionFX compiled a 9-hour supercut of every SNES game that asks you to perform this action. Performing this action in Daytona USA will stop the slot machine. Performing this action at an almost super-human rate unlocked extra ? battle stages in Bomberman 64. The NES Advantage's (*) Slow button works by rapidly performing this action. Mario and Yoshi traverse Groovy prior to the player doing this for the first time after a system boot in Super Mario World. For 10 points, you could perform what action by hitting a button next to the Select button on an NES controller?ANSWER: pressing the start button [or pressing the pause button; prompt on pressing a button]?14. Playing as one of these objects, the player uses trampolines and conveyer belts to rescue his girlfriend from Sammy Squirrel in a Rube Goldberg platformer for the Genesis developed and named for Bill Pullan. These items fly into the air like helicopters in the first level of Mickey's Magical Quest. The 1-Ups in Cosmic Gate, one of the faux-NES titles in Retro Game Challenge, are these items, since that's also the name of Cosmic Gate's fake developer. They're not eggs, but the player, who is hiding behind a mailbox, aims these things at ? Ralph and Principal Skinner in one of the minigames in Virtual Bart. A ToeJam and Earl lightgun game was named for these (*) fruit. The first level of Overcooked has you chopping lettuce and this fruit to feed a giant meatball monster. For 10 points, name this food in Overcooked can be combined to make a hamburger alongside a bun, meat, and lettuce.ANSWER: tomatoes?15. This character's creator Chris Seavor used him as a placeholder in prototype versions of The Unlikely Legend of Rusty Pup. A "Young" version of this character can plays around on your furniture in a Hololens demo. Some fans mistakenly believed this character was getting a new game when he appeared in several demos for new features in Project Spark. In one quest, he causes Marvin to explode after bringing Marvin too much ? cheese. This character forgets to request that his girlfriend, Berri, be resurrected. A remake added surprisingly good Xbox Live multiplayer to this character's first game but also added a lot more (*) bleeps to the dialogue. This character would have starred in a game about his Twelve Tales, but ended up in a platformer where he fights the opera-loving Great & Mighty Poo. For 10 points, name this squirrel who appeared in an N64 platformer titled for his "Bad Fur Day".ANSWER: Conker the Squirrel?16. An ASCII-art DOS title by Christopher D. Orr tasks the player with performing this activity prior to a party. The Offspring's "One Fine Day" would have appeared on a cancelled Gizmondo exclusive about this activity. Level 2-3 of the first 3D Frogger was named for enemies who performed this activity. Lots of cats are killed by a person performing this activity in a "Totally Twisted" ? screensaver from After Dark. The game Hover Bovver centers on this activity. A DSiWare title where some 1950s kids have to perform this activity penalizes you for destroying (*) flowerbeds with your vehicle. It's not a cart, but a slow-moving GTA V vehicle for performing this task automatically gives you 2 stars when you steal it from a golf course. For 10 points, videogames that simulate what chore often take place in suburban backyards?ANSWER: mowing the lawn [accept anything involving riding a lawnmower]?17. A 1978 arcade game centering on this activity borrows from pinball tables by giving you a bonus if you light up each letter of the game's name on the marquee. In that same Atari game titled for this activity, developer Owen Rubin says he regrets making the wind so unpredictable. A yellow silhouette indicates where you need to guide the player to enter into formation in a mode in an ? N64 game partially set on Holiday Island. You get bonus points for linking arms and then facing your Mii at the camera in a mode where you're engaging in this activity in Wii Sports Resort. The original (*) Just Cause opens with you performing this activity to reach the Devil's Drop Zone. For 10 points, name this activity included in Pilotwings where you try to hit the bullseye after pulling your parachute.ANSWER: skydiving [or jumping out of a plane; accept Skydiver; accept parachuting before the end]?18. William Bartlett made so much money with a mass-produced game of this type that he bought up most of the nightclubs in 1930s Miami. Supposedly these games originate from a fascination with the Panama Canal. Alberta apparently bans these games if they don't allow for retries like several ? candy-themed ones do. The Erie was the first mass-produced version of a digger, a predecessor to these games. Players had to mash buttons really quickly to escape when they served the role as (*) prizes in a Mario Party minigame simulating this activity. Arcade operators can set the namesake object in these games to fluctuate in strength over time. One component from this game is worshipped by some aliens encountered at Pizza Planet in the original Toy Story film. For 10 points, name this type of arcade game where you use the namesake object to try to grab stuffed animals and other prizes.ANSWER: crane game [or claw game; or UFO catcher; accept digger game before mentioned]?19. A kart racer with this theme used the same engine as Thunder Hawk. A character named Brick Jagger is the principal enemy of one game with this theme. A PlayStation game set in one of these types of worlds has you exploring a landscape full of Mochi-type plants and striving to build a tower that can reach the sky. The PS1 game Tail of the Sun has this theme. A platformer with this theme has you rescuing your wife Ophelia and was followed by a sequel where you play as the hero's son, ? Chuck Jr. The best weapon in another platformer with this theme is a wheel. The (*) Joe and Mac games have this theme, as does BC Racers. For 10 points, name this theme of games such as The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock.ANSWER: caveman [or prehistoric; or dinosaur; or Stone Age]?20. Series and platform required again. One game in this series has a model number of MK-96 because the product code got swapped with an otherwise very similar Mickey Mouse game. One game in this series has the title character juggling pineapples and avoiding torches at the circus and notably has ? color graphics. A hidden second player controller on the back of one entry in this series let friends duke it out in a game of hockey. The first of these games ends on the second screen when the player undoes all of the pegs, similar to the (*) arcade original it was based on. The first entry in this series features an orange clamshell design, and a dual-screen design that may have inspired the DS. The second player in the aforementioned Hockey game in this series plays as Mario. For 10 points, give this series based on a barrel-dodging Nintendo arcade game for a primitive mobile platform.ANSWER: Donkey Kong games for Game & Watch [prompt on Mario games for the Game & Watch]?Tiebreaker:?This company's rare CPS Changer allowed home users to plug in its CPS arcade boards and play them using an SNES controller. For 10 points, what company ported SNES titles like U.N. Squadron and 1941: Counter Attack to that system?ANSWER: Capcom?? ................
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