1990s Puzzle Video Games - Make No Wrong Moves Quiz

Answer: Falling block

The general goal in "Dr. Mario" is to eliminate viruses by matching colors of viruses and capsules that fall from the top of the screen. "Dr. Mario", then, is a falling block game similar to "Tetris" of the 1980s. "Dr. Mario" simply adds the charming feature of faces on the viruses, giving them countenances indicative of mischief and malfeasance.

The single-player mode of "Dr. Mario" features levels of increasing difficulty with more viruses added up through level 20. Multiplayer mode enables two players to play against each other in separate game fields to clear viruses faster than each other.

Answer: Guide a group of creatures through a series of obstacles to a goal.

Lemmings may gain different skills and be used in various ways in the game, but the goal of "Lemmings" is to get your lemmings to a designated exit in each level without them dying, a feat at which they excel. It is one of the top-selling video games of the 1990s and has been released on several consoles.

There are eight different skills lemmings can be assigned throughout the game, and skills can only be assigned while the lemmings are in motion, so a lot of the difficulty in the game is in the rate of release of the lemmings and their walking pace.

Answer: Yoshi's Cookie

"Super Mario Bros. 3" is a 1990 NES platformer game, similar to the original "Super Mario Bros.". The original "Mario Party" game was released in 1998 on Nintendo 64, and is a party style board game. SNES's 1993 game "Yoshi's Safari", interestingly enough, features first-person shooter gameplay.

It is "Yoshi's Cookie", originally released in Japan in 1992 on NES and in Japan, North America, and Europe in 1993 on SNES, that is the puzzle game of these four. The main goal of "Yoshi's Cookie" is for the player to line up cookies of the same type in the same rows or columns of a rectangular grid of various cookies to clear the grid.

Answer: Both a book and an island

The adventure in "Myst" starts with the player coming across a book named "Myst" describing a land with an island of the same name. The island is explored throughout the game and more books and information are collected in an effort to assist a pair of brothers in escaping.

Answer: Bubble Bobble

"Bust-a-Move" is also known as "Puzzle Bobble", and is based on Taito's arcade game"Bubble Bobble", which was also released for several video game consoles. Bubbles are shot in "Bust-a-Move" up toward a field of balls of various colors, and the object of the game is to clear bubbles by matching three or more balls of the same color with one's shots. "Bust-a-Move" was popular enough to inspire multiple sequels.

Answer: The 7th Guest

"The 7th Guest" was released for PC in 1993 with live-action video clips as a major part of the gameplay, so it received a lot of attention for this novelty. A series of logic puzzles are solved in the game in order to advance the story and complete it. Sequels include "The 11th Hour" and "The 13th Doll", and a "The 7th Guest" board game exists.

The 25th anniversary edition of the game, remastered, was released in 2019.

Answer: Create simple devices and machines to accomplish a basic task

"The Incredible Machine", designed by Kevin Ryan and published by Dynamix, involves simple ropes and pulleys, cats and mice, electric mixers and bowling balls, and all sorts of other odds and ends a player can use to manipulate basic physical aspects of each level played. Gravity is taken into account in the game so the problems to be solved involve realistic simulations of physical events.

The term for such a device that can be created to accomplish a simple task indirectly is a Rube Goldberg machine.

Answer: Pac-Attack

"Professor Pac-Man" is a quiz arcade game from 1983. "Pac-Land" is a side-scrolling arcade game released by Namco in 1984. "Pac-Mania" is a 1987 maze arcade game similar to the original "Pac-Man" with the added ability of jumping over ghosts. "Pac-Attack", released for SNES and Sega Genesis in 1993, is the falling tile video game listed. Formations of ghosts and blocks are used strategically, as once Pac-Man is in play, he follows a direct path as he eats the ghosts he encounters with no further control over his movements.

Answer: Nonogram

"Mario's Picross" is so named because a picross is another name for a nonogram, a puzzle in which cells must either be darkened or kept light according to a puzzle of numbers on a grid to reveal a hidden picture. Based on difficulty, players may choose grids of 5x5, 10x10, or 15x15 cells of blocks to chisel out a picture. The game led to two sequels exclusive to Japan.

Answer: Kirby

According to the plot of "Kirby's Avalanche", the villain King Dedede challenged Kirby and his cohorts to a competition, which leads us to this color-matching blob game. There was no Japanese release of this game, but Japan does have a release called "Super Puyo Puyo".

As the game progresses in difficulty, the key to success becomes the ability to create chain reactions of matching blobs, whereby one disintegrating match of blobs leads other strategically placed blobs to fall on to others that match.