Reticulating Splines Trivia Quiz

Answer: City-building simulation game

"SimCity 2000", which was actually released in 1994, was first made as a personal computer videogame, developed by the company Maxis. The game, designed by Fred Haslam, won the Origins award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game in 1995. Some of the game's features included the addition of many buildings (in comparison to its prequel, "SimCity"), and a tool that reveals information of buildings upon request.

Answer: Helicopter

A 3D game, "SimCopter" allows the player to pilot a helicopter through a 3D city, and maps of this city correspond to those of the game "SimCity 2000". The helicopter pilot can work in several jobs, like rescuer, criminal catcher or directing traffic. "SimCopter" was exclusively released for PCs.

Answer: Simoleon

Represented by the symbol §, "The Sims" uses Simoleons as their currency. Each player begins with §20,000, which can be used to purchase either a house or a lot. After doing this, the player can do several other activities such as work, read, and receive guests.

"The Sims" won the 2000 GameSpot Game of the Year Award.

Answer: Emergency mode

"SimCity 4", as its predecessors, allowed the player to build and manage a city. It had three game modes; God mode, which permitted the player to choose where the city would be built, as well as cause natural disasters, Mayor mode, where the player manages the city and its public services, and MySim mode, which allows players to use their own Sims.

Answer: Bon Voyage

"The Sims 2" offered a complete 3D view, as well as going through life's different stages. The game, available for a variety of consoles, released eight expansion packs, such as Bon Voyage, a package that enabled the Sims to explore several parts of the world as a vacation.

Answer: Spore

The game "Spore" enables players to make their own creatures, which go through cell stage, creature stage, tribal stage, civilization stage, and space stage. The game has a few expansion packs, and several games for different consoles have been developed.

Answer: GameCube

The Nintendo GameCube was a great console! Too bad it was discontinued in 2007, therefore making it impossible for "The Sims 3" to produce a GameCube version. However, the game was available to be played in Nintendo DS and 3DS, Wii, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

In the game, players can build houses, interact and have children (including same-sex couples) and there is an option to chat with other Sims to improve the previous "social" techniques used in former games.

Answer: Facebook

"The Sims Social" allows users to engage in interaction with Sims of their Facebook friends. Different to other "Sims" games, users could only go for three careers: Rocker, Artist and Chef. Electronic Arts announced on April 2013 that, after two years on the social network created by Mark Zuckerberg, the game would be closed down and would no longer be playable.

Answer: Playfish

Playfish developed a couple of known games such as "Restaurant City" and "Pet Society", before becoming defunct in 2013 and then owned by Electronic Arts. The British company helped design "SimCity Social" with Maxis. The game allowed Facebook users to interact with their Facebook friends via their cities. The game shut down on 2013 alongside "The Sims Social".

Answer: Will Wright

Will Wright is the founder of Maxis and creator of "The Sims". He first released "SimCity" in 1989, unleashing an impressive amount of success and many sequels. Maxis, which Wright founded alongside Jeff Braun, was bought by Electronic Arts in 1997, but Wright kept developing "Sims" games with Maxis, as a subsidiary of EA.

Will once said in an interview that the phrase "reticulating splines" was added because it "sounded cool". The phrase has been included in many Maxis games, as a joke.