1. What is the name of the side-scrolling platform NES game that features a story involving a high school student that dreams about a damsel calling for help and one day is brought to a mythical realm by a pixie named Cutie to save a princess named Rosebud from a villain named Blackhorn?
Answer: "Astyanax"
"Out of this World" aka "Another World" aka "Outer World" is a cinematic platformer for a multitude of consoles including the SNES (no NES) where a physicist gets transported to an alien planet after lightning strikes his lab in the middle of an experiment.
The "Adventure Island" series deal with Master Higgins traversing a tropical island to rescue his girlfriend Tina from the clutches of evil. "Castlequest" contains a princess in need of rescue, fairies and a bad guy, but the hero is a prince by the name of Rafael, while the lady-in-distress is named Margarita and the evil boss is Mad Mizer.
2. What is the name of the first-person shooter for PC and XBox that shares a name with one of the weapons in the game and has as settings Hell and Purgatory?
Answer: "Painkiller"
"Pariah" is a FPS for Windows and XBox set in the year 2520 where a medic has to find a woman infected with a virus before an outbreak occurs. "Powerslave" for the Saturn, Playstation and PC, deals with a special team of soldiers fighting against mummies, anubis and scorpions in late 20th century Egypt. "Phantom Slayer" is one of the forerunners of the FPS genre, released for the TRS-80 Color Computer and Dragon 32/64, where the player fights phantoms in a randomly-generated maze, knowing where they are only when a certain sound plays indicating the imminent proximity of the enemy.
3. What is the name of the fictional intelligence sub-agency that deploys the units known as "splinter cells" in the "Splinter Cell" series?
Answer: Third Echelon
CTU and UNIT hail from the TV shows "24" and "Doctor Who" respectively. The Umbrella Corporation is the infamous bioengineering pharmaceutical company in the "Resident Evil" series. Third Echelon is based on the real-life ECHELON, which is rumored to be an international intelligence gathering network.
4. In "Akuji the Heartless" for the Playstation, who rips out the heart of the voodoo priest Akuji on his wedding day?
Answer: His brother
Not only does he kidnap Akuji's bride-to-be, but he also rips out Akuji's heart and seals it in wax, trapping the voodoo priest in the "underworld";however, by collecting the souls of his ancestors, Akuji may yet find a way to come back and exact revenge.
5. What video game character was the first one to appear topless in a Playboy magazine?
Answer: Rayne from "BloodRayne" series
This happened in the 2004 October issue of Playboy as part of an article named "Gaming Grows Up". The main purpose of Rayne's "exposure" was to promote "BloodRayne 2" which was coming out that same month.
6. What is the name of the Koopa that rides a cloud through the skies and tosses Spinies down to the player below them?
Answer: Lakitu
Bullet Bills are the giant bullet missiles found in many Mario games. Hammer Bros. are the Koopa that relish throwing hammers at players who come near them, and Pidgits are the small birds that soar the skies atop magic carpets. Lakitus usually appear as referees or ball-retrievers in the Mario sports games, and were also friendly in "Super Mario 64", following Mario with a video camera wherever he went.
7. What was the name of the NES game that had as first player Ernesto "Che" Guevara and as second player Fidel Castro?
Answer: "Guerrilla War"
"Guerrilla War" was originally titled "Guevara" in Japan, and dealt with the defeat of the Batista regime in the '40s Cuba. SNK, the game's publisher and developed decided to alter the title and content when it brought it to the US, in order to avoid controversy. "Mercs" for the Sega Genesis featured counter-terrorist units rescuing the President in the fictional African nation of Zutulu. "The Peace Keepers" was a beat'em-up for the SNES with a story set in 2015, with four main characters seeking revenge during the aftermath of global economic wars. "Just Cause" for the 360, Xbox, PS2 and PC is about a CIA-sponsored guerrilla war on a fictional South American nation with the goal of overthrowing that country's dictator.
The cover for "Just Cause" mimics the iconic photograph of "Che" Guevara.
8. What is the final transformation mask Link can obtain in "The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask" (attainable once you have all 20 of the normal masks)?
Answer: The Fierce Deity's Mask
The Fierce Deity's Mask allows Link to transform into Oni Link, an extremely powerful adult version of Link that uses no shield, opting instead for a giant, helix-shaped two-handed sword. Majora's Mask is the one that possesses Skull Kid turning him into the main antagonist of the game.
The Garo Mask allows Link entry to Ikana Canyon and the ability to encounter and fight Garo Ninjas. The Skull mask is used as part of a quest and makes Keeses (the enemy bats) harmless.
9. What is the subtitle of the first game in the "Tenchu" series released in the US?
Answer: "Stealth Assassins"
"Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins" is the prequel to "Stealth Assassins". "Tenchu: Time of the Assassins" is for the PSP and though it has been released both in Europe and Japan, as of August 2007, an American release has not even been announced. "Tenchu: Fatal Shadows" for the PS2 is the fourth game in the series, and is more of a side story.
Also called the "Contra Code" for the 30 lives per continue that it granted after entering it in the 1988 NES "Contra" game. Though the "Contra" game popularized the code, the first time it was used was for the FAMICOM/NES port of the horizontally scrolling shoot'em-up "Gradius" game.
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