Monthly Videogame Quiz

November Quiz - round ends soon!

Woah, what a spectacle: almost eighty people are competing in this, it's a full on mass brawl! Also two players from here. But watch out: on Wednesday night the fight is over, so all the remaining observers don't have much time left. Chinnico AlexH Markopoloman elginmcqueen carrot007  - come on people, get in the ring!

By the way, about #6... have you ever noticed that the same fighter appears as the protagonist in several fighting games on this platform? First in the original, then with a tan, then with a headband... that's why I'm friendly when it comes to the answers, but I won't just wave through every lowres Karate dude in a white bathrobe either.

See for yourself:

(these are all the answers that came in for #6)

Now don't wait any longer, because the deadline is already tomorrow, Wednesday the 30th of November.
Participation as usual via www.retrogamequiz.com/.

Just one last time, the quiz:
i.imgur.com/UooGCWA.png

I just had to have a wild guess on the last couple I was stuck with. As usual I left it too late in the month to start researching them. Fingers crossed I've got the rest right.

November Quiz - Answers & Score

K.O. - you win! 126 people walk in, seven come back out: those players smashed the competition and got every single game right. You guys are crazy. The true "king maker" of this round was #23, only eight people found it.

Now let's start with the answers... first as text, then as images and finally the high score.

1) Virtua Fighter 2
We start with an arcade game by Sega...
Answer rate: 87%
Other suggestions: 4x Tekken, Battle Arena Toshinden, Bloody Roar, Soul Calibur

2) Mortal Kombat 2
This is the SNES version.
Answer rate: 95%
Other suggestions: Blood Warrior

3) Dead or Alive 3
Answer rate: 90%
Other suggestions: Tekken 7

4) Tekken
The first Tekken on Playstation.
Answer rate: 70%
Other suggestions: Virtua Fighter, King of Fighters, Kasumi Ninja, Final Fight, Fighters Megamix, Die Hard

5) Soul Calibur 3
Tira first appeared in the third game (Playstation 2).
Answer rate: 85%
Other suggestions: Guilty Gear

6) International Karate (IK+)
Also known as "chop'n'drop". Did you get it right? i.imgur.com/sgF3x4X.png
Answer rate: 78%
Other suggestions: 7x Karate Champ, Karate Champion, Street Fighter, Karateka, Black Panther, Boxing, Double Dragon, The good Samaritan

7) Brutal: Paws of Fury
Answer rate: 61%
Other suggestions: Beast Clash Fighters, Bugs Bunny's Royal Rumble, Fight'n Rage, Helicopter Bunny Legs, Jazz Jackrabbit, Kong Fu Hase, Toon Fighter

8.) Skullgirls
Answer rate: 66%
Other suggestions: Blaz Blue, Dark Stalkers, Gloam Collective’s Bravery Network Online, Guilty Gear, Indivisible

9) Garou: Mark of the Wolves
King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Garou... a wild mix of answers, points for all!
Answer rate: 63%
Other suggestions: 6x Street Fighter (alle Varianten), Rival Schools, Guilty Gear, Marvel vs Capcom, Dragon Ball Fighter Z, BlazBlue

10) Arcana Heart
Answer rate: 45%
Other suggestions: 6x Skull Girls, River City Girls, Touhou, Guilty Gear, Blaz Blue, Koihime Enbu, Nitroplus Blasterz

11) Body Blows
Answer rate: 40%
Other suggestions: 9x Fatal Fury, 4x Streets of Rage, King of Fighters, Final Fight, Art of Fighting, Chambers of Shaolin, Fightin Spirit, Pokemon Colloseum, Auto Mechanic Fight

12) Zero Divide
Answer rate: 37%
Other suggestions: 5x Rise of the Robots, 5x Robo Pit, Robots Arena, roboduck, Tobal No 1, One must fall

13) Ehrgeiz
No, not Tekken! I guess the studded glove made you take a wrong turn.
Answer rate: 34%
Other suggestions: 18x Tekken, 3x Bloody Roar, Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter, Dead or Alive, Battle Arena Toshinden, Destrega, Fighting Force, Kensei: Sacred Fist, Tobal No1

14) Divekick
Answer rate: 48%
Other suggestions: Def Jam Fight for New York, Guitar Shoe Hero Fighter Remix, Kick Master, Parappa the Rapper, Schuh AG, sega rally

15) Killer Instinct Gold
Interesting: 3D backgrounds, 2D characters.
Answer rate: 52%
Other suggestions: ClayFighter, Persona 4 Arena, Rise of Robots, Super Smash Bros, Thrill Kill, Bloody Roar 2

16) Chambers of Shaolin
Answer rate: 34%
Other suggestions: Yie Air Kung Fu, Kung Fu, Karate Time in the Void, Black Belt

17) Fight of Gods
Answer rate: 53%
Other suggestions: Alien Vs Predator, Bible Warriors, Cardinal Sin, Feel the Wrath of Jesus, monkeys of shaolin

18.) Bangkok Knights
Answer rate: 33%
Other suggestions: Barbarian, Caveman Ugh-lympics, Final Blow, Larry

19) Guilty Gear Strive
Answer rate: 37%
Other suggestions: 3x Street Fighter, Tekken, Star Wars, Soul Calibur, Overwatch, My Hero Ones Justice, Injustice, Dragon Ballz Fighterz, Dnf duel, DAEMON X MACHINA

20) Fighting Warrior
Answer rate: 47%
Other suggestions: 4x Fist, Egyptian Fight Club, Barbarian, Gladiator

21) Samurai Shodown V
My favorite answer, by the user MikeBloke: "Me trying to work out answers for this Quiz"
Answer rate: 40%
Other suggestions: 3x Darkstalkers, Street Fighter, Red Earth, Persona 4 Arcadium, Marvel vs. Capcom, Guilty Gear

22) Monstro Giganto
Modern C64 game with an interesting graphics style.
Answer rate: 30%
Other suggestions: Eyeball Fight, Robot Fighters

23) ONE
The most difficult entry! Come and watch this exclusive masterpiece: video
Answer rate: 6%
Other suggestions: 5x Bloody Roar, Sailor Moon, Rumble Roses, Rival Schools, Psychic Force, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, D-Xhird, Dirty Fighter, Dead or Alive, Beachball fighter Zero, Battle Arena Toshinden

24) Street Fighter 1
Quite mean: Bonus level from one of the two C64 ports of the first Street Fighter game.
Answer rate: 17%
Other suggestions: Punch Out, Pixel Chop, kung fu master, Kung Fu, Karate Champ, Exploding fist , Bruce Lee

25) Street Fighter 6
The Charakter Editor of the Street Fighter 6 Beta lets you create some really funny fighters.
Answer rate: 41%
Other suggestions: 5x WWE 2K Battlegrounds, UFC, Tekken, Multiverse, Clay Figher, Tug My Chest Hair


quiz image:



answer image:

Direktlink: i.imgur.com/oJaGd0k.png



HIGH SCORE TABLE

01 - 25 points - spz - The_BACH
01 - 25 points - gav - Scorplian
01 - 25 points - gav - Wizdom
01 - 25 points - mmx - Nayuta
01 - 25 points - spz - Striderblade
01 - 25 points - rta - marek
01 - 25 points - mnc - Gerhard S.
08 - 24 points - hcg - windfisch
09 - 24 points - mnc - Mangamaniac2171
10 - 24 points - eab - Nobby_UK
11 - 24 points - mnc - Ost West Elite
12 - 24 points - eab - Havie
13 - 24 points - smu - Herr Schatten
14 - 24 points - rpg - Calastellio
15 - 24 points - gsg - TheLastToKnow
16 - 24 points - ntl - lifer
17 - 24 points - rta - hamsterstyle
18 - 23 points - rtu - Antiriad2097
19 - 23 points - rta - EarthPainting
20 - 23 points - mtc - Parsnip

21 - 22 points - rta - malus
22 - 22 points - mmx - fedprod
23 - 22 points - gpo - DocMoody
24 - 22 points - cib - frozentiger
25 - 21 points - gsg - partykiller
26 - 21 points - eab - Little Havie
27 - 21 points - mtc - Valdien
28 - 21 points - mmx - Knuckles
29 - 21 points - pop - turzilla
30 - 20 points - can - Dark Kariya
31 - 20 points - ata - jgkspsx
32 - 20 points - rta - Illusionary
33 - 20 points - mtc - Wibblewozzer
34 - 20 points - ftg - LockeTribal
35 - 19 points - ntl - Matt_Barber
36 - 19 points - hcg - dsparil
37 - 18 points - mnc - Dreamteam
38 - 18 points - ftg - rwklau
39 - 18 points - sh2 - Vino
40 - 17 points - rta - jett
41 - 16 points - gms - kopyright
42 - 15 points - mtc - FunnyJay
43 - 15 points - mnc - Sachiel
44 - 15 points - gms - j1m
45 - 14 points - nto - Lockenvogel
46 - 14 points - rtc - Carrot007
47 - 14 points - ftg - spooky
48 - 14 points - sh2 - godzella
49 - 14 points - hcg - mainpatr
50 - 14 points - smu - BulletMagnet
51 - 14 points - spz - Geddoe
52 - 14 points - mmx - Dnamei
53 - 13 points - rtu - Chinnico
54 - 13 points - eab - darkwave
55 - 13 points - gpo - rave
57 - 13 points - gpo - Eddie
56 - 13 points - cib - Seizokano
58 - 13 points - gms - hellermarie
59 - 12 points - hcg - personman
60 - 12 points - m!g - geohound
61 - 12 points - m!g - Red XIII
62 - 11 points - ftg - Vandelay
63 - 11 points - mmx - Lynx
64 - 11 points - hcg - Snake
65 - 11 points - gpo - OutOfBounds
66 - 11 points - gpo - Messor Torvus
67 - 10 points - ntl - Fizza
68 - 10 points - cib - LockeBoss
69 - 10 points - gav - Cube
70 - 10 points - mtc - MegaApple
71 - 10 points - rta - Aldo
72 - 10 points - sh2 - BVBFabi09
73 - 09 points - spz - VAL
74 - 09 points - rtc - Elginmcqueen
75 - 09 points - rpg - Zion
76 - 09 points - sh2 - FoxSpitzer
77 - 09 points - nto - 4C8en
78 - 09 points - mnc - Mitschel
79 - 09 points - rkb - Addearheart
80 - 09 points - pop - Don Como
81 - 09 points - mnc - HomiSite
82 - 08 points - eab - Mailman
83 - 08 points - mnc - elementalMaster
84 - 08 points - pop - PUH
85 - 08 points - ntl - Bunkerneath
86 - 08 points - mtc - freshVeggie
87 - 08 points - cib - Retro_Willie
88 - 08 points - rkb - salversurfer
89 - 08 points - hcg - teroknor
90 - 08 points - cib - Icho Tolot
91 - 08 points - hcg - alexmate
92 - 08 points - mmx - Klunky
93 - 07 points - wtd - rossyrg
94 - 07 points - mtc - QFNS
95 - 07 points - gpo - Konsolomio
96 - 07 points - gpo - FireSmoke
97 - 07 points - ftg - HarryPalmer
98 - 07 points - cib - Elemental Master
99 - 07 points - sh2 - Bonz
100- 06 points - mmx - LittleChoco
101- 06 points - rtu - necronom
102- 06 points - can - Jean-Luc Hazek
103- 06 points - rta - Blufunk
104- 06 points - sh2 - Neo_SUC
105- 06 points - ata - Mikebloke
106- 06 points - ftg - A Wink and a Wank
107- 06 points - mnc - Arne
108- 06 points - spz - Vincent 86
109- 06 points - pop - Daiyama
110- 05 points - smu - Mischief Maker
111- 05 points - pop - Sascha
112- 05 points - nto - Ande
113- 04 points - f64 - Endurion
114- 04 points - ntl - Dogorilla
115- 04 points - gpo - Navarone
116- 04 points - gms - hellifanboy
117- 04 points - f64 - Jammet
118- 04 points - gpo - GAMEPROFF
119- 03 points - gpo - Bully
120- 03 points - cib - Jan565
121- 03 points - gav - Yoshi
122- 03 points - ftg - Rich
123- 03 points - cib - tharathiel
124- 02 points - ftg - Destria
125- 02 points - rpg - D4rkD
126- 00 points - ntl - DarkMatter



LOCAL HIGH SCORE

1 - 23 points - Antiriad2097
2 - 14 points - carrot007
3 - 13 points - Chinnico
4 - 09 points - elginmcqueen
5 - 06 points - necronom

Congrats to Antiriad2097 for the local lead and the Top 20 position.

This was the final round of 2022! Now you can relax and wait for the big year end results. Thank you all for playing!

As expected, 23 was one I should have got, I knew I'd seen it before but I honestly don't remember that being in the game.

No chance of getting that N-Gage game though.

I was a bit surprised to see more than one Street Fighter entry, that breaks the usual rule of only having one game per series in the quiz each month. It had me doubting.

HIGH SCORE 2022

The year is over, you have again solved ten of my quizzes... and hundreds of you have played each round, so I would like to announce the year-end-ranking of all players and the 26 participating forums.

How do you score points for your forum?

SCORE HIGH - get placed in the Top 20.

ENDURANCE - participate in at least five quizzes without a break.

Details: i.imgur.com/IJxUDh4.png

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COMMUNITY RANKING 2022



rta = ResetEra
mnc = old maniac
spz = Spazio PC
mmx = Multimediaxis
eab = English Amiga Board
mtc = MetaCouncil
ntl = NintendoLife
hcg = hardcore gaming 101
gsg = Gamers Global
gpo = Gamepro Discord
rpg = RPG Maker MV
gav = Gaming Village
rtc = Retro Canteen & Retrogamer
sh2 = Shock²
gms = Gamestar
pop = PowerPlay
smu = Shmups forum
can = Canard PC
ata = Atari Age
m!g = M!Games
nto - NTower
rkb = Rocket Beans
ftg = fontgeek
wtd = Wasted
cib = Circuit Board
f64 = Forum 64

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The RetroCanteen & Retrogamer forum union is moving up - starting from place 21 last year you now hold 13th place, one hell of a jump.

This is mostly thanks to the high scores of a single star player, so who made this forum score possible? (1st number is points via high score, 2nd number is points via endurance)

(15+3) - Antiriad2097
(00+1) - ElginMcQueen

One more round, then both Chinnico & necronom will start to earn endurance points as well.

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There are five new forums this year: the Rocket Beans, the Circuit Board, the Shmups Forum and the Forum 64 community. In addition, the RetroGamer Forum has relaunched, but is competing together with the Retro Canteen as almost all users overlap (this is you!). Welcome to the Quiz!

Table from 2021: i.imgur.com/1xJokDT.png
Table from 2020: i.imgur.com/GO7pxOq.png
Table from 2019: i.imgur.com/Lva9Ntj.png
Table from 2018: i.imgur.com/RpnKJJn.png

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And before I forget, here's the result of the last poll, your most popular round of 2022:



What can I say? The 90s win and looks like gamers don't cook.

We'll continue in February... for now I'll say thank you everyone for playing, and Merry Christmas!

LOCAL TOP 10

No matter if they were gained with real skill or with steady persistence - see below for the local top list of this year. All players can see their change to last year in brackets.

1 - 207 points (+58) - Antiriad2097
2 - 99 points (+39) - elginmcqueen
3 - 51 points (+51) - Chinnico
4 - 27 points (+08) - carrot007
5 - 23 points (+23) - necronom
6 - 22 points (+22) - Markopoloman
7 - 17 points (+05) - @stayawhile
8 - 03 points (+03) - AlexH

And here is our local winner, Antiriad2097 manages to get over 200 points and emerges victorious at the end of 2022.

Thank you all for playing!

February Quiz - Open World Games

Welcome to the new quiz year! Linear progression, strict level sequence, no exploration? Not today - we begin this season with a younger genre, I hope the retro fans among you won't run screaming. ^_^

I'm sure there's many classics I didn't include, and instead put titles in this round that just barely qualify as open world... but this is just me trying to keep it interesting, not knowing every release out there and also avoiding re-use of games from previous rounds.

The deadline is Tuesday the 28th of February, participate via www.retrogamequiz.com/

Here is the quiz, good luck:

Direct link: i.imgur.com/N94QQz5.png