Video Game Common Bonds Trivia Quiz

Answer: fastest

Sonic is the fastest character in "Super Smash Bros. Brawl", The Super Series is the fastest series of cars in "Burnout 3: Takedown", Chun-Li is the fastest character in "Street Fighter II", and Crimson Fury is the fastest car in "Twisted Metal". Originally, the lead of "Sonic the Hedgehog" was to be a cartoony fat man in pajamas, though this character was later changed into Dr. Robotnik.

Answer: sidekicks

Tails is the sidekick of Sonic the Hedgehog, Luigi is the sidekick (and brother) of Mario, Daxter is the sidekick of Jak, and Clank is the sidekick of Ratchet. "Tails' Adventure" was the third and last game in which Tails is without Sonic, the first two being "Tails and the Music Maker" and "Tails' Skypatrol".

Answer: silent

Link, Claude, Crono, and Ari all were mute throughout the game. However, Crono did get two lines of dialogue in one of the endings of "Chrono Trigger" and Ari had several text statements that a player could choose from, though none were ever spoken.

Answer: emerald

Super Sonic morphs with the Chaos Emeralds, Nintendo released "Pokemon: Emerald Version" onto the Gameboy Advance, The Mystic Lake is in the Emerald Passage of "Warioland 4", and Mt. Emerald was an area in Lost Sanctum, a new area in the DS port/ remake of "Chrono Trigger". Several side-missions require you to constantly scale Mt. Emerald, usually in both the Middle Ages and Prehistory.

Answer: futuristic

All of these are racing games set in the future, usually featuring antigravity and crazy track design. "F-Zero" was on the SNES, "Wipeout" was on the Playstation, "Extreme-G" was on the Nintendo 64, and "Kinetica" was on the PS2.

Answer: RPGs

"Klonoa Heroes" and "Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga" were both on the Gameboy Advance, "Sonic Chronicles" was on the Nintendo DS, and "Megaman X: Command Mission" was on the PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox. "Klonoa Heroes", however, never made it overseas.

Answer: princesses

Schala was from "Chrono Trigger", What's-Her-Name is from "Earthworm Jim", Zelda is from "The Legend of Zelda", and Shokora is from "Warioland 4". Depending on one's preformance, Shokora can differ in appearance from a beautiful woman to a female Wario.

Answer: Yoshi

"Yoshi's Egg" and "Yoshi's Cookie" were both on the NES while "Yoshi's Safari" and "Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island" were on the SNES. There was also a puzzle game released on the NES simply titled "Yoshi" and had gameplay similar to that of "Dr. Mario".

Answer: launch titles

"Super Mario Bros." was on the NES, "Altered Beast" was on the Sega Genesis, "Halo: Combat Evolved" was on the Xbox, and "Ridge Racer" was on the Playstation. It is because of 'Halo: Combat Evolved" that the sale of Xbox systems skyrocketed.

Answer: Capoeria

Eddie Gordo is from the "Tekken" series, Richard Meyer was from "Fatal Fury", Trident was from "Eternal Champions", and Elena was from "Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike". "Eternal Champions" was a fighting game that met with mixed reviews, though most people agree that the controls were horrible.

Answer: stages

"Kung Fu" and "DuckTales" were on the NES, "Rez" was on the PS2, and "Ikaruga" was on the Gamecube. "Altered Beast" is another example of a five stage game.

Answer: Zero

"Megaman Zero" was on the Gameboy Advance, "Street Fighter Zero" (the Japanese name of "Street Fighter Alpha") was on the Playstation, "Resident Evil Zero" was on the PS2, and "Bomberman: Act Zero" was on the Xbox 360. Originally, Zero was designed to be the main character of the "Megaman X" series, though this idea was discarded when Inafune decided to add a new kind of Megaman, thus forcing Zero to take up the 'sidekick' persona.

Answer: cards

Gambit is a French mutant that has the ability to charge cards with psychic energy before throwing them. In "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories", everyone who was in Castle Oblivion used cards to attack with.

Answer: cartoon series

The longest running show was "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3", beating out "Earthworm Jim" by only three episodes. It would later get a sequel series named 'Super Mario World', based on the game of the same name.

Answer: cats

Alfador was Janus' cat from "Chrono Trigger", Tango was from "Megaman V" on the Gameboy, Mewoth is from the "Pokemon" series, and Blaze is from the "Sonic" series. It has also been hinted by Namco themselves that Klonoa may be a cat-like creature.