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Video games trivia questions
Video games mixes dated and undated questions: 13 of its 18 have a year, between 1889 and 2006, and 5 do not. The Pop culture group of the picker lists it as “Arcades, consoles and classics”.
Video games: how the questions fall by date
Split by decade, the questions look like this, earliest year 1889, latest 2006:
- 1880s: 1 question
- 1970s: 3 questions
- 1980s: 1 question
- 1990s: 6 questions
- 2000s: 2 questions
What a Video games card looks like
Four choices, one answer. The first words of the questions break down as follows: 12 start with “Which”, 3 start with “In”, 2 start with “The”. Each answer is followed by a fact of up to 20 words. In 11 cases the answer is just one word.
A source article stands behind each one; nothing goes in unchecked.
Video games samples and their answers
Try these two. They come from the older part of the Video games bank and were not in the daily ten around the build date of this page.
Question (1978): Which 1978 Taito arcade game sent rows of aliens marching down the screen at a lone laser cannon?
Answer: Space Invaders. The survivors speed up as you clear them out, and so does that four-note march.
The wrong choices on the card were Galaga, Asteroids, and Centipede.
Checked against Space Invaders (Wikipedia).
Question (2001): Which science-fiction shooter launched with the first Xbox in 2001?
Answer: Halo: Combat Evolved. It spent its early years as a real-time strategy game before turning into a shooter.
The wrong choices on the card were Gears of War, Doom 3, and Call of Duty.
Checked against Halo: Combat Evolved (Wikipedia).
Pick Video games in Rewind
Start from the title screen: Branches, then Video games, then Play these. Add a second branch if you want more variety, or tap Mix to clear the choice. Anyone who picks the same branches on the same day gets the same ten questions.
Scoring and the clock are in How to play Rewind.
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Every branch is on the Rewind topics page, and the other daily games are on the topics hub.