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The Impossible LairA tournament on mostly old videogamesBy Mike BentleySeptember 2020Round 21. Datel's version of this device remained compatible with a later system until the System Menu 3.0 upgrade. This device was commercialized from an earlier one designed for developers by Intelligent Systems with the word "Wide" in its name. This system uniquely added rumble support to the game Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari and a pinball title. A Japanese-only controller named for this device by ? Hori now goes for high prices because it's a great way to play fighting games. A special version of this device was created to fit with the differently sized legs of the Panasonic Q. Although it was technically possible to play Boktai on this device, you couldn't take advantage of that game's sun sensor. For 10 points, name this (*) successor to the Super Game Boy that let you play games like Golden Sun on your TV through the GameCube.ANSWER: Game Boy Player [do not accept "Game Boy" or "Super Game Boy"] (3)?2. It's not speech synthesis, but a Sega-Gremlin game implementing this tech played samples like "So, a creature for my amusement. Prepare for battle!" The game Space Fury employed this tech but was prone to catching fire. Mark Cerny's first arcade game, made in partnership with Owen Rubin, was the only platformer to use this tech and was called Major Havor. A game called Mine Storm was included in the ROM of a system that employed this tech originally manufactured by General Consumer Electronics. Expert players in the best arcade game to employ this tech would ? "lurk" by destroying all but one object and then shooting down flying saucers. For 10 points, name these (*) types of graphics used in games such as Asteroids that draws graphics with sharp lines rather than with a raster display.ANSWER: vector graphics [or vector display; or calligraphic display]?3. The Switch version of Shinobi added this functionality, available by pressing the ZL or ZR buttons. A vacuum cleaner called the TS-1000 allows the player to perform this operation in up to five different ways in an exclusive for the original Xbox by Artoon; that game centers on a cat trying to save Dimension B1Q64 called Blinx. Performing this action will reset your shadow in "The Pit" and other levels from World 5 of one game. The player can perform this action by pressing the X button in an indie game developed by Jonathan Blow where you're also collecting ? jigsaw puzzle pieces. The subtitle of the first good 3D entry in the Prince of Persia series alludes to the player's ability to perform this action, makes the platforming easier. For 10 points, name this (*) mechanic central to Braid, which gives you a chance to re-do failed jumps.ANSWER: rewinding time [or going back in time; or going forward in time; or time travelling; or stopping time] (2)?4. The player proceeds from being a stickman to a kiwi to a Moai statue as the difficulty increases in a microgame centering on this activity in the original WarioWare. You can apparently overflow a counter by scoring over 8.3 million points in a minigame of this type involving Vivi in the kingdom of Alexandria in Final Fantasy IX. A free Switch app released by Nintendo during the Covid-19 lockdown titled for this activity has you holding a Joy-Con in each hand and tracks your daily progress. The original Mario Party had a minigame where the object used in this activity was made of fire and would randomly change speed. Equipping Mario with a Motor Scooter makes it easier to successfully do this activity 100 times in a row in ? New Donk City for perhaps the hardest Power Moon in Super Mario Odyssey. For 10 points, name this (*) activity that in real life comes includes a Double Dutch variety.ANSWER: jumping rope [or skipping rope; accept Jump Rope Challenge; prompt on jumping]?5. Scholar Riccardo Fassone took this software to task for its emphasis on "code is code," instead calling for an approach based on the theories of zombie media. This software was originally developed by Nicola Salmoria and publicly released for MS-DOS in February 1997. This software gained more capabilities in 2015 when it integrated the MESS project. A software license named for this software was also used by the Visual Pinball project. QMC2 is one of the many Windows ? frontends for this software that improve its UI. The most recent milestone listed on this software's website improves support for LCD handhelds and TV games. Earlier upgrades to this software added support for FM synthesis-based sound chips. Several companies offer services to create "cabinets" named for this software that are converted from old hardware. For 10 points, name this (*) prominent arcade emulator.ANSWER: MAME [or Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator; accept MESS before mentioned]?6. It’s not bubbles, but the player can throw one of these title objects at enemies in the PC-Engine exclusive sequel to Rainbow Islands. The player is able to shoot star-shaped projectiles from one of these objects in the Squeak Squad entry in the Kirby series. A magical one of these objects can turn into a boat and do a charge attack and is named Perry in a DS game starring ? Princess Peach. The right-most middle girder in the "pie factory" level of Donkey Kong contains one of these objects belonging to Pauline. A red and white one of these objects from the Kirby series can slow the player's fall when used in Super Smash Bros. Melee. An organization named for these items was founded by Lord Ozwell Spencer, whose mansion serves as the setting for the first game in a noted zombie series. For 10 points, name these (*) objects that guests in Rollercoaster Tycoon open when it starts to rain.ANSWER: umbrella [or parasol] (1)?7. A BAFTA-nominated third person shooter titled for this number has the player dealing with a Sarin gas attack on the LA Metro and an EMP. This number appears in the name of a homebrew project that made channels like Forecast and Everybody Votes work again for one system. This number appears in the name of a now-defunct service that caused your console's disc slot to turn blue when it had a message. That service with this number in its name was also used to exchange messages in the ? City Folk entry in the Animal Crossing series. A PS2-era game with this number in its title, like the TV show it was based on, featured a subplot where the hero's daughter Kim was abducted by terrorists and due to a breach of CTU security. For 10 points, name this (*) number that appears in the title of a PS2 licensed game starring Jack Bauer.ANSWER: 24 [accept WiiConnect24] (2)?8. A clone of this game for the Commodore 64 has a plot involving you capturing leptons from a particle accelerator and is titled Frenzy. One of at least two erotic spins on this game was the Namco arcade title Dancing Eyes. Mario's Mexican outfit in Super Mario Odyssey is a reference to a Game Boy version of this game where Mario appeared in cutscenes. The original version of this game gets harder as enemies like Super Sparx appear on screen in later levels. A heads-up display in this arcade game reading "Claimed" tells you how much of the level still needs to be completed. A "tournament" sequel to this 1981 game gave players an extra bonus for clearing over 90% of the screen. This game was marketed as the world's first ? "drawing" arcade game. For 10 points, name this (*) Taito puzzle game where you try to fence off large parts of the playfield with a three-letter title.ANSWER: Qix ("kicks") (4)?9. Later levels of Sega's arcade racer Up 'n Down get harder by changing the color of any of these items you run over multiple times in a row. The different state of these objects indicates how many secrets the player has found in each level in Donkey Kong Country 3. The player earns extra points by collecting "S" versions of these items in the Namco arcade classic Rally-X, whose levels are complete when the player finds 10 of these in the maze. In one game, the number of extra lives the player gets when ? touching one of these objects depends on how many power-ups they've harvested while playing as Nabbit. The player gets bonus points if they touch one of these things when the clock ends on a 1, 3, or 6 in a game where it's possible to jump over one in World 3-3. For 10 points, name these (*) objects that appear at the top of a pole at the end of levels in Super Mario Bros.ANSWER: a flag [accept flagpole or goal pole; or goal post] (1)?10. In the days before Google Street View, a level designer on this game named Stuart Harvey was pulled over for driving around with a car with a digital camera mounted on top to gather assets for it. One climactic scene in this game involves the explosion of a ship called the Sol Vita. One player-character in this game can take hostages and used to be a member of the Collins Crew, while his counterpart is only able to arrest people. This game, known as Minis in a Field during development, used turn signals to indicate where the player had to go because it otherwise did away with a ? heads up display. This cinematic sandbox game got a sequel subtitled Black Monday. The story in this game alternates between police officer Frank Carter and the gangster Mark Hammond. For 10 points, name this (*) GTA-style game for the PlayStation 2 set in London, not to be confused with a 1994 film starring Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin.ANSWER: The Getaway (3)?11. A really hard golf game titled for this location was included in the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3.1. This landmark was made even more prominent for a Vectrex port of a racing game that was the highest-grossing arcade game of 1983. A company whose full name refers to this landmark released a line of gaming PCs mysteriously named for the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Charles Townes ("towns"). Along with billboards for Pepsi and Malrboro, this landmark can be seen in the background of the track in Namco's Pole Position. The ? "dragon veins" of this place serves as Yoshimitsu's level in Soulcalibur V. An image of this landmark features prominently behind a bath in a Street Fighter II stage home to E. Honda. The Japanese title of the fighting game Shogun Warriors was named for this location. For 10 points, name this (*) mountain show in 36 views by Hokusai.ANSWER: Mount Fuji [accept Fujitsu] (2) ?12. The final area in Mega Man X: Command Mission is titled for one of these objects and has you fighting the boss Great Redips. A Game Boy Color "EX" game titled for one of these things was reskinned in the US to be Dexter's Laboratory: Robot Rampage. This is the first word in the title of a 1983 arcade game where the player must retrieve secret documents while avoiding agents who keep appearing from behind doors in a 30-story building. In a common ? autoscroll trope from beat 'em up games, you defeat over 50 enemies while on one of these things in the seventh level of Streets of Rage. Loading screens in the original Metroid Prime were concealed by having Samus enter one of these things. The player must find missing buttons for one of these objects to travel to new levels in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. For 10 points, name these (*) mechanical devices that transport Luigi between floors.ANSWER: elevator [or orbital elevator; or space elevator; or lift] (1)?13. Blockfort's list of top 10 characters of this ethnicity in videogames gives the #1 spot to a child prodigy who has done extensive research on the Kurain Channeling Technique as your opponent in the mission "Reunion, and Turnabout." A character of this ethnicity gets beaten up by a group of kids at a boxing class in the Wii version of Punch-Out!! and is your second opponent in the NES original. A Nintendo employee of this ethnicity was the original voice of Wario in prototypes of Mario Kart 64. Hugo from the Street Fighter series has this ethnicity. People of this ethnicity are the enemies in a top-down 1981 PC game by Silas Warner later revived in the 1990s for a ? FPS where the character plays as BJ Blazkowicz. For 10 points, give this (*) ethnicity of the enemies in Wolfenstein 3D, who are literally Nazis.ANSWER: German [prompt on White or Caucasian or, I guess, Aryan] (1) 14. In one book, this scholar notes how "ironoia" can be counteracted in activities like mowing the lawn by creating game-like "magic circles" around activities. This man is the alphabetically first author of a book that posits reception/operation and form/function as two of five layered ways to study videogames. This author of a Lacanian analysis of the McRib sandwich wrote the book Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, The Uses of Boredom, & The Secret of Games. He riffed on the title of a J. L. Austin book with his How to Do Things with Videogames. With Nick Montfort, this man wrote the first book in the Platform Studies series, a title on the Atari 2600 called Racing the Beam. As a developer, this man created a deconstruction of Zynga's Facebook games where players gather "Mooney" by performing the title action every 6 hours. For 20 points, name this videogame scholar and creator of Cow Clicker.ANSWER: Ian Bogost?15. One of the earliest examples of the stealth genre was a 1979 title developed by Hiroshi Suzuki for the Commodore PET where you played a boy named for his facility in performing this task. A 2012 post on a Baldur's Gate forum advises that you take five potions and buy a drink before performing this action in a location named for Taerom. In a Game Boy Color remake, the player has their photo taken by the Photographer if they perform this action. It doesn't have anything to do with doors, but Colm specializes in this activity in ? Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. The player's name is changed and they're constantly berated by the Wind Fish if they perform this action in Link's Awakening. After seeing an ad for the game Bonestorm, Bart unsuccessfully attempts to perform this action in "Marge Be Not Proud." For 10 points, name this (*) crime that allows Link to obtain items from a shop without spending rupees.ANSWER: shoplifting [or stealing; or theft; anti-prompt on opening treasure chests] (2) 16. One of these people who specializes in fisticuffs is one of the hardest regular enemies to defeat in Data East's Vigilante. These people, who are not samurais, androids or gunfighters, name the slowest hero class in the Lynx game Gauntlet: The Third Encounter. A bunch of orphans become these people in a 2020 movie directed by Makoto Nagahisa filled with 8-bit imagery titled We Are Little Zombies. One of these characters in Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption likes to utter the phrase "Aw wot uh tossah." A Jaleco platformer for the PlayStation centers on a pollution-fighting skunk who is named for one of these types of people. Some of these people contributed "I Wanna Live" to a ? "Project 8" game in addition to "I Wanna Be Sedated" for Burnout 3. For 10 points, name these (*) type of people who were catered to by the Crazy Taxi soundtrack, which featured the bands Bad Religion and The Offspring.ANSWER: punk rocker [accept Punk Boy or skinhead; anti-prompt on answers like a member of the Ramones] 17. One of the final good releases for this system was an isometric adventure game starring Grandpa from The Munsters titled Midnight Mutants. GCC designed the MARIA graphics chip for this system. One of the best games for this system is the sports / beat 'em up mash-up Ninja Golf. A dispute over payments led this "ProSystem" to be late to market and it didn't even get a European release until the Hot Gossip columnist for Computer & Video Games begged its manufacturer to release it there; by 1990 it had half of the UK console market. It was the last non-Nintendo console to get a Mario Bros. port and was touted at launch for its high-quality port of Joust. Unlike its backward compatible predecessor, this console had a ? lockout chip preventing unauthorized games. For 10 points, name this (*) console by Atari whose name might lead you to believe it was a little more than 5000 units more powerful than the VCS.ANSWER: Atari 7800 [accept Atari 7800 ProSystem before mentioned] (3) 18. Description acceptable. Drones harass the player in a 1981 Sega arcade game that rips off this scene titled Eliminator. Seventeen years later, another Sega arcade game controlled entirely with a joystick opens with this scene, and will berate you with the message "negative… It didn't go in" if you fail to trigger the event button at the correct time during it. The second and third phases of a licensed 1983 vector graphics arcade game by Atari are versions of this scene. The player first is tasked with destroying some deflection ? towers in a version of this scene that opens the most visually impressive launch title for the GameCube. The player must dodge a bunch of horizontal bars in a version of this scene that opens the game Rogue Leader. For 10 points, name this (*) concluding action scene in the original Star Wars film where Luke destroys a certain planet-sized battle station.ANSWER: Death Star trench run [or anything involving the destruction of the Death Star; or Battle of Yavin]?19. In the untranslated PlayStation RPG Linda3 (Linda Cube), Ken's evil twin brother Nek works for a drug company that forces all of its employees to dress like this character. The second-most valuable prize in the NES game Wrecking Crew is a doll of this character. After eating some "sinful" Jell-O, this character becomes the villain of the first episode in Season 2 of Telltale's Sam & Max games. An alternate costume makes Olaf look exactly like this character in Advance Wars 2. A once popular Flash game had this character bowling down his employees. This fictional character ostensibly made possible a 2005 viral video starring a screaming ? 9-year-old named Brandon, a person soon nicknamed for the Nintendo 64. In Secret of Mana it's revealed that this character is the secret identity of Frost Gigas, angry that "kids just no longer believe" in him. For 10 points, name this (*) character who stars in the SNES title Daze Before Christmas.ANSWER: Santa Claus [or Santa Claus; or St. Nicholas; or Saint Nick; or Kris Kringle; accept Father Christmas until the end] (1)?20. Description acceptable. Wikipedia claims the first of these devices was manufactured by HAL Laboratory and worked in conjunction with the Famicom's DA-15 port. One of these devices manufactured by Sony has a distinctive L shape and is 9 inches wide. Codemasters developed a device of this kind for the Genesis that innovatively combined it with cartridges like Pete Sampras Tennis. It's not an arcade stick but one of these devices made by Nintendo takes its name from an ? Abe Lincoln speech and contains B and A turbo buttons on the right of the device. One of these accessories was utilized by the Bean Ball mode in Super Dodge Ball. One of these devices for the NES was called the Four Score. It's not a modem, but the Saturn version of Bomberman supported two of these devices, allowing for 10-player multiplayer games. For 10 points, name these (*) accessories necessary for playing 4-player NES games.ANSWER: multitap devices [accept answers like controller expansions or devices that let you plug in more controllers to a system; do not accept or prompt on "link cables"] (3) ................
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