Video Games Knowledge Quiz - Season 9 - Pirez

[PluMGMK]

Fifo is correct, although he could also have mentioned that it's stereo

[Master]

Alright I'm convinced, Fifo receives a bonus point! Now I am still awaiting the name of the Flash web game for Pokémon Gen 5...

[Giant Chicken]

Pokemon Peta? I remember my friend talking about it, and I have absolutely no clue what the answer could be...

[Master]

Alright I'll give a bit more background. There was a website that linked to the Gen 5 games, you could see trades happening in real-time, and also access a certain set of mini games if you sent your Pokémon to sleep in B/W/B2/W2.

[Master]

Alright, I've left this open a fair amount of time so I'm gonna withdraw this one. The answer was Pokemon Global Link, though I forgot it was refashioned for Gens 6 & 7 (though without any of the fun visuals).

Let's try another question

Scoreboard
Pirez - 1 point
RayGamer99 - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point
ithasmore - 1 point
PluMGMK - 1 point

QUESTION 6 (not 7) - What was the time gap between Retro Studios' most recent unique releases that were not remakes/ports? (i.e. I'm not counting releases of DKCR HD & 3DS/DKCRTF on Nintendo Switch or MPR).

[Pirez]

10 years?

[RayGamer99]

11 years?

[Master]

11 years is correct, Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze released Feb 2014, and was the last unique game Retro had made (there would later be ports of both Donkey Kong Country Returns games, and of course, Metroid Prime Remastered) until Metroid Prime 4 released last month, Dec 2025. (So it actually got pretty close to 12 years!)

Point to RayGamer!

Scoreboard
RayGamer99 - 2 points
Pirez - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point
ithasmore - 1 point
PluMGMK - 1 point

QUESTION 7 - We all know of AMD, Nvidia and Intel as the big gaming graphics card companies of the day, but there was a company in the 90s who preceeded them and were once the biggest name in the gaming graphics card industry. Who were they?

[Reese Riverson]

3DFX? The folks behind the Voodoo cards.

[Pirez]

Asus?

[Master]

3DFX was what I was looking for, anyone who's had to fiddle about with the PC version of Rayman 2 probably has some familiarity with them.

Point to Reese!

Scoreboard
RayGamer99 - 2 points
Pirez - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point
ithasmore - 1 point
PluMGMK - 1 point
Reese - 1 point

QUESTION 8 - Name an instance where the HD Rumble functionality of the Switch Joycon is used to produce music.

[Gottagocool11]

One instance i know was Kirby: Star Allies because...

If you complete Story Mode, have cleared every single stage (not counting extra stages), find and go through this level "Extra Planet Delta", the final area in this level was themed like the Game Boy (the handheld console that started the whole series), at the very end of it was a button that, when pressed, causes the HD rumble in the Joy-Cons to start playing the Green Greens theme from Kirby's Dream Land while in the game itself, it summons a giant statue of the pink puffball himself and all of the friends he met. (though, if you didn't unlock The Three Mage-Sisters, then the statue will only include Kirby)

Tl;DR beat the game with every stage cleared, go through the delta level until you reach the very end of the 8-bit area and press a big button to hear your Joy-Cons play the music.

[Master]

Always nice to meet a fellow Kirby enjoyer! That was indeed the example I had in mind! Point to Gottagocool11!

Scoreboard
RayGamer99 - 2 points
Pirez - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point
ithasmore - 1 point
PluMGMK - 1 point
Reese - 1 point
Gottagocool11 - 1 point

QUESTION 9 - Which FF character is often represented by the song titled "Battle at the Big Bridge"

[Reese Riverson]

Oh that's easy, Gilgamesh!

I know this from my Final Fantasy XIV adventures within the Hildibrand questlines. The guy is hilarious!

[Rsandee]

He's in every mainline FF game I think

[Master]

His first appearance was in FFV if memory serves, I know he's shown up sporadically ever since but I'm not so sure he's consistently shown up in every mainline FF game. I don't think he was in the original FF7, for instance.

Either ways, Reese is right, it was Gilgamesh!

Scoreboard
RayGamer99 - 2 points
Reese - 2 points
Pirez - 1 point
Rsandee - 1 point
ithasmore - 1 point
PluMGMK - 1 point
Gottagocool11 - 1 point

QUESTION 10 - What was the name given to the mod done to a PSP battery to enable the installation of homebrew software and custom firmware back in the PSP's heyday?

[Nancy78]

He's in every mainline FF game I think

Nah, like Master said, Gilgamesh appeared in FFV, but did not appear in FFVI, FFVII, FFIX nor FFX. It's a running joke that he's appearing everywhere tho, due to him coming back in FFV so often - at least I remember this to be the reason for the joke. He was a playable character in FF Opera Omnia I think... I think I even got him on my two saves or at least on the first one. I would check it, but they took this game away from me and I'm still salty about it - I could play as Mateus, this was God tier.

Sorry, my inner FF nerd resurfaced with this

[Master]

Hmm, still no attempts at this one.

Alright, I'm not quite sure if that's down to the current lull in activity or if this question's just too hard. If anyone wants me to switch the question, just voice it here and it shall be done. Otherwise I'm inclined to keep this one as-is, if it's down to activity levels a switch in question isn't going to make a difference.

[Pirez]

I'm not advocating for a question change, but I most certainly do not know the answer.

[Nancy78]

I don't know the answer either