Matching Video Games and Their Characters Quiz

Answer: Jango Fett

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." Jango Fett lived as bounty hunter. Dressed in a silver and blue full body armour suit, he travelled from solar system to solar system, earning his money with various missions. Darth Tyranus chose him to be the genetic father of an army of android clones, produced on the solar system Kamino.
In the video games based upon the "Star Wars" franchise, Jango Fett is one of the playable characters whom you might encounter. He first appeared in the video game "Star Wars: Bounty Hunter" (2002, PlayStation2) which provided the info on his life before the Kamino plot that evolved in the movie "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" (2002). In this game you can play Jango Fett on his mission to capture a very special prey for a high reward.
Jango Fett later appeared in several other video games based upon the "Star Wars" franchise, but also as a special guest in the skating game "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4".

Answer: Ken Masters

Ken Masters (or in Japanese Ken Masutazu) was a fictional extremely talented American karateka in the game series "Street Fighter". Ken Masters once was the training partner of Ryu, a Japanese fighter with similar skills. The only differences between them were their looks: Ken was a blonde American dressed in a red karate suit (at least in the first instalment), while Ryu was a Japanese dark-haired fighter in a white karate suit. In the original game "Street Fighter" (1987, arcade consoles) Ryu or Ken had to face ten different opponents in a one-to-one match over three rounds. One could move using a joystick and kick or punch using buttons.

The same game was also released on Commodore 64 and on Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Later instalments featured Ryu and Ken as well as various (old and new) opponents and were developed for arcade consoles but also made their way to for instance Playstation 3 and Windows PC.

Answer: Meowth

When the "Pokemon" video games first appeared in 1996, Meowth was one of the 151 pocket monsters available - although not one to start the game with. Meowth had the typical appearance of a domestic cat, but it could speak human language. Meowth carried a gold coin on its forehead, but seemed generally unaware of it. Meowth belonged to the "normal" type class, which had average statistics in an attack against any other type (except an attack against a steel type or rock type Pokemon, which would be less effective - or against a ghost type, which could not be harmed by a normal type character). Meowth would evolve into Persian at level 28. Since the generation VII games (2016) Meowth and its evolution Persian also exist in Alolan form: a colour variation with another type and maybe other special abilities.

Answer: Marcus Brody

The "Indiana Jones" movie franchise soon spilled over to video games as well. The eponymous protagonist was an adventurous archaeologist in search for all sorts of legendary objects. Marcus Brody was an older curator who assigned Indiana to finding the Ark of the Covenant.

This Ark was not only valued because of the precious materials used and the fact it was discussed at large in the Old Testament, but also because rumour had it that an army carrying the Ark would become invincible. As the quest for the Ark was situated in 1936, not only ardent archaeologists but also a special division of the SS were looking for it... "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1982 for the Atari 2600) was a video game based upon this story and following loosely the plot of the 1981 movie with the same title.

Answer: Frederick Barbarossa

"Civilization VI" (2016) was the sixth instalment of a series of strategy video games in which the player could choose a country and lead its people from the early stone age unto the age of space exploration. The first instalment appeared in 1991.
In "Civilization VI" each country was personified by one of the historical rulers, and the computer controlled opponents behaved a bit in the philosophy of these rulers. For instance if you would encounter India led by Mahatma Gandhi, chances were that this computer controlled opponent did not start any war. As a player you could choose between 18 different countries, ranging from ancient Egypt or Sumer to the USA.
Germany was identified by Frederick Barbarossa, the ambitious Emperor ruling between 1155 and 1190. In the game play, Barbarossa could start out in the stone age and finally develop some nuclear bombs or go out and settle colonies on other planets.

Answer: Yoshimitsu

"Tekken" was released in 1994 on arcade consoles and also made its way to Playstation. It was followed by many newer versions, but the basic gameplay was the same. The player could choose one of several martial arts champions, enter a tournament and fight it out in single combat with one of many opponents.
The first seven instalments had some characters returning in each and every tournament. One could always choose to play the Irish assassin Nina Williams, the American biker Paul Phoenix, or the Japanese sword fighter Yoshimitsu. Also the Mexican wrestler King (two different characters with the same name and abilities) and the Japanese business tycoon Heihachi Mishima appeared in "Tekken" up till "Tekken 7".
Yoshimitsu was first styled as the typical Japanese samurai, wielding a sword in his right hand. But there was something unusual about his appearance: in the backdrop to the story Yoshimitsu had lost his right arm, and that was replaced by a prosthetic arm. Later instalments showed Yoshimitsu with two swords, with wings or with octopus tentacles.

Answer: Frank Tenpenny

The "Grand Theft Auto" video franchise debuted in 1997 for PlayStation 1, Windows PC and Game Boy Color. It was followed by at least a dozen similar games, although most characters were unique to each instalment. In each game one could play a young criminal making his way up through the ranks of some criminal organization. In 2004 "GTA: San Andreas" was released.

The playable protagonist was Carl Johnson, and the main antagonist was the corrupt police officer Frank Tenpenny. Tenpenny once was charged with various accusations such as sexual assault, corruption, drug abuse, but was cleared by lack of evidence.

But where there's smoke...

Answer: Ganon

The "Legend of Zelda" franchise debuted in 1986 for Nintendo Entertainment Systems and Game boy Advance. Since that time, more than fifteen other games have been released in this franchise.
The main characters in this adventure game series were Link (a young elfish man, with pointed ears), Princess Zelda (a young woman from royal descent, gifted with some magic powers) and Ganon (a warlock appearing either as a giant or as a powerful boar). In most of the games, Ganon held Princess Zelda captive, and Link had to come to her rescue.

Answer: Patrick Dunstan

"Tomb Raider" was a video games franchise debuting in 1997. Eight games were published in eight consecutive years, and more games followed. The protagonist was Lara Croft, the adventurous daughter of the wealthy Lord Croft. In several instalments Lara travelled around the world, retrieving various valuable artefacts and risking her life in doing so. At the end of the fourth instalment ("The Last Revelation", 1999) it seemed Lara Croft had indeed expired and was buried under the ruins of the Temple of Horus in Giza, Egypt. "Chronicles" (2000) picked up at this point in the timeline, and three of her friends organized a mourning service and remembered some of her adventures.

These three narrators were Lara's butler Winston Jeeves, the family priest Father Patrick Dunstan, and her former history teacher Charles Kane.

Answer: Sue

"Ms. Pac-Man" (1982) was one of the first arcade video games ever. The player controlled the eponymous character, a circular shape with a piece missing. The missing part of the circle functioned as a feeding mouth, and Ms. Pac-Man was to move in a maze eating various cookies. But four ghosts acted as her enemies: a red one, a pink one, a cyan one and an orange one (later replaced by a purple ghost) . In the English version these ghosts were nicknamed respectively Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Sue.
Getting caught by one of the ghosts cost you a life, unless your character had just consumed a vitamin pill - in that case you could eat up the ghosts for extra points.
"Ms. Pac-Man" was the female answer to the 1980 game "Pac-Man", in which the male protagonist had to cope with four ghosts nicknamed Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde.