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Gaming Trivia
Press start on 150 gaming trivia questions spanning arcade legends, console wars, esports, streaming, and the stories behind your favorite games. From the pizza that inspired Pac-Man and the landfill full of E.T. cartridges to the 13-year-old who beat Tetris and the $68.7 billion deal that shook the industry, test how much of a gamer you really are.
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In gaming, what does the abbreviation "NPC" stand for?
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According to creator Toru Iwatani, what food with a slice missing inspired the shape of Pac-Man?
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What hybrid Nintendo console launched in March 2017 and can be played docked on a TV or as a handheld?
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Which red-and-black 3D Nintendo console flopped in 1995 and was discontinued within a year?
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The 2007 documentary The King of Kong chronicles Steve Wiebe's Donkey Kong rivalry with whom?
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In gaming, what does "DLC" stand for?
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In October 2023, which game passed 300 million copies sold, making it the best-selling video game of all time?
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Which Spartan warrior, the "God of War," became a Norse-mythology dad in the 2018 reboot?
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On what date was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time released in Japan?
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What 1971 game is considered the first mass-produced commercial arcade video game?
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Twitch was spun off in 2011 from which general live-streaming site?
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What is the name of the fire-breathing Koopa King who keeps kidnapping Princess Peach?
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Which Soviet computer scientist created Tetris in 1984 at the Moscow Academy of Sciences?
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Which company developed the 2016 augmented-reality phenomenon Pokรฉmon GO?
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Sonic the Hedgehog was created as the mascot for which company?
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Rockstar North, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto, is based in which city?
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Which game is the best-selling title on the original Nintendo Switch, with over 60 million copies sold?
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What floor accessory do players stomp on to play Dance Dance Revolution at home?
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What is the name of the green dinosaur that Mario rides?
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Outside North America, the Sega Genesis was sold under what name?
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Which company developed and publishes League of Legends?
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What is the name of Sonic's two-tailed fox sidekick?
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What is the name of the red ghost who chases Pac-Man most aggressively?
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What was the name of the PlayStation 2's custom CPU?
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Before Microsoft bought it in 2000, Bungie was best known for making games for which computer?
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How many selectable World Warriors were in the original 1991 Street Fighter II arcade game?
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What is the name of the princess in the title of Nintendo's series starring the hero Link?
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Which StarCraft pro, nicknamed "The Emperor," helped turn South Korea into an esports powerhouse?
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Who won Atari's 1980 Space Invaders Championship, which drew over 10,000 competitors?
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In the 1981 Donkey Kong arcade game, what was Mario's profession before he became a plumber?
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On what date did id Software release the original Doom as shareware?
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In gaming chat, what does "AFK" mean?
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In 2019, superstar streamer Ninja left Twitch for an exclusive deal with which Microsoft platform?
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In which year did the North American video game crash wipe out roughly 97% of the industry's revenue?
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In which year did World of Warcraft's "Corrupted Blood" plague spread across servers, later studied by epidemiologists?
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Which British studio developed the 1997 Nintendo 64 classic GoldenEye 007?
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What 1972 Atari arcade hit was a simple simulation of table tennis?
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What was the grand prize at Stanford's 1972 "Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics," often called the first esports tournament?
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What is the name of the green diamond that floats above characters' heads in The Sims?
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What was the Atari 2600's internal codename, reportedly named after an engineer's bicycle?
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Which 16-year-old won $3 million as the solo champion of the 2019 Fortnite World Cup?
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The original Defense of the Ancients (DotA) was a custom map for which game?
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Who created Kirby at age 19 and went on to direct every Super Smash Bros. game?
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What live-streaming platform, bought by Amazon in 2014 for about $970 million, became the home of gaming streams?
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Which engineer, called the "Father of Video Games," designed the Magnavox Odyssey?
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Which game franchise stars the dual-pistol-wielding archaeologist Lara Croft?
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Which white-gi-wearing martial artist is the main protagonist of the Street Fighter series?
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In 2014, excavators confirmed Atari had buried thousands of E.T. cartridges in a landfill in which state?
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What is the name of the green-clad hero many people mistakenly call "Zelda"?
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A Game Boy that still works after being scorched in a bombing was damaged during which conflict?
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Which company created both Fortnite and the Unreal Engine?
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On what exact date was Super Mario Bros. released in Japan?
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How does the famous Konami Code end after "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right"?
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Engineer Jerry Lawson pioneered interchangeable game cartridges with which 1976 console?
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Warren Robinett hid his name in a secret room in which Atari 2600 game, creating one of the first Easter eggs?
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Who pulled off "Evo Moment #37," parrying 15 straight hits from Chun-Li's Super Art in 2004?
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Which game designer created the Metal Gear series and later Death Stranding?
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Who led Nintendo as president from 1949 to 2002, transforming it from a card maker into a video game giant?
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What handheld gaming PC did Valve release in February 2022?
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Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin helped write the mythology of which 2022 game?
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Which famous video game hero was originally called "Jumpman" in the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong?
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In gaming, what does "RPG" stand for?
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What online handle does Minecraft creator Markus Persson go by?
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Who is the outlaw protagonist of Red Dead Redemption 2?
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Five Nights at Freddy's is set at night in what kind of business?
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Which character did Troy Baker voice in 2013's The Last of Us?
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Which Riot Games MOBA is played on the famous map called Summoner's Rift?
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The name "Nintendo" is commonly translated as roughly what phrase?
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Who single-handedly created, composed, and wrote the 2015 indie hit Undertale?
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In December 2023, which 13-year-old became the first person to "beat" NES Tetris by crashing the game?
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What is the name of Link's fairy companion in Ocarina of Time, famous for shouting "Hey! Listen!"?
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Counter-Strike began in 1999 as a fan-made mod for which game?
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Why did the Pong prototype at Andy Capp's Tavern stop working in 1972?
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How much money did Halo 2 gross on its first day of sales in November 2004?
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What motion-sensing camera did Microsoft launch for the Xbox 360 in 2010?
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Which studio created Crash Bandicoot before going on to make Uncharted and The Last of Us?
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What is the name of the virtual currency used to buy items in Roblox?
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The name "Sega" is a shortening of which original company name?
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What console brand did Microsoft launch in 2001, with Halo: Combat Evolved as its killer app?
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Which company makes the mega-hit mobile puzzle game Candy Crush Saga?
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Which post-apocalyptic series features the thumbs-up mascot Vault Boy?
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Nobuo Uematsu's choral boss theme "One-Winged Angel" accompanies the final battle against whom?
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Which Japanese studio developed Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro?
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Which pink Nintendo puffball can inhale enemies and copy their powers?
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What 2009 Rovio mobile game had players flinging birds at pigs with a slingshot?
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In Portal, what dessert does the AI promise as a reward, only for players to learn it "is a lie"?
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What was the Nintendo Wii's codename during development?
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The 2014 EVE Online battle that destroyed an estimated $300,000 worth of ships took place in which star system?
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The 1962 game Spacewar! was programmed on which MIT computer?
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Which game appeared as a clay model on the cover of the very first issue of Nintendo Power in 1988?
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What electric mouse, Pokรฉmon #025, became the face of the entire Pokรฉmon franchise?
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Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to the Switch, launched worldwide in which year?
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Shigeru Miyamoto has said exploring caves and forests near his childhood home inspired which series?
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Nintendo test-launched the NES in 1985 in which U.S. city?
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Mario was reportedly named after Mario Segale, who was Nintendo of America's what?
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Which neuroscientist's floating head guides players through the Nintendo DS hit Brain Age?
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Which 2020 Switch game had millions of players paying off island loans to Tom Nook during lockdown?
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On what date did Nintendo's Famicom launch in Japan?
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In which game do crewmates try to unmask a hidden "impostor" aboard a spaceship?
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Before becoming Nintendo's president, Satoru Iwata was president of which developer?
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According to Game Freak, which Pokรฉmon was the very first one ever designed?
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Which designer made the 1984 arcade game Marble Madness and later became lead architect of the PS4 and PS5?
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How many ghosts chase Pac-Man around the maze in the original arcade game?
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In what year did the original PlayStation launch in North America?
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Who is the real player behind World of Warcraft's viral "Leeroy Jenkins" charge?
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Tetris was created in 1984 by a programmer working in which country?
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Which 2017 battle royale drops 100 players onto an island from a flying "Battle Bus"?
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How much did Microsoft pay to acquire Minecraft developer Mojang in 2014?
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The name "Xbox" is a shortened version of which original working name?
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Mortal Kombat was originally pitched as a game starring which action movie star?
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Sony's PlayStation began as a canceled CD-ROM add-on for which Nintendo console?
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Which creator named his game "Final Fantasy" partly because he thought it might be his last before quitting?
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The Evo fighting game tournament began in 1996 under what original name?
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What do players traditionally type in chat at the end of a match to show good sportsmanship?
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What giant flying boss must be defeated in Minecraft's End dimension to "beat" the game?
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The original 2003 Call of Duty was set during which war?
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Which 2013 Rockstar game, set in Los Santos, earned $1 billion in just three days?
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In Minecraft, what green mob silently sneaks up on players and explodes with a hiss?
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When Nintendo was founded in Kyoto in 1889, what did it make?
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What was Minecraft's working title when Markus Persson first showed it in 2009?
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Who walked onstage at E3 1995, said only "$299," and walked off, undercutting the Sega Saturn?
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Who designed the look of Sonic the Hedgehog for his 1991 debut?
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Microsoft closed its record-breaking acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023 for how much?
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Which game's championship, The International, set an esports record with a prize pool of over $40 million in 2021?
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In Super Mario Bros., what power-up makes small Mario grow big?
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Which voice actor has voiced Master Chief since the original 2001 Halo?
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What is the name of the sarcastic AI that runs the Aperture Science test chambers in Portal?
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In the 1986 Metroid, finishing in under what time earned the ending that most dramatically revealed Samus?
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In 2014's "Twitch Plays Pokรฉmon," over a million viewers collectively beat which Game Boy game via chat commands?
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Who created the 1958 oscilloscope game Tennis for Two at Brookhaven National Laboratory?
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Stardew Valley was made entirely by Eric Barone, who works under what name?
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Evo Moment #37 happened in which specific fighting game?
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On which level does the original Pac-Man's famous split-screen "kill screen" occur?
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What is the maximum possible score in the original Pac-Man arcade game?
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Legendary League of Legends player Faker has spent his entire career with which organization?
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Which Sony engineer is known as the "Father of the PlayStation"?
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Which battle royale congratulates the last survivor with "Winner winner chicken dinner"?
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In what year was Half-Life 2's source code stolen and leaked online, a year before the game launched?
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What is the name of the underwater city in the original BioShock?
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Miyamoto chose the word "Donkey" in Donkey Kong because he believed it meant what in English?
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Which pop superstar contributed music to Sonic the Hedgehog 3, as confirmed by Sega's Yuji Naka?
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The 1993 U.S. Senate hearings that led to the ESRB focused on Mortal Kombat and which full-motion-video game?
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Miyamoto's love of what hobby inspired the plant-like creatures of Pikmin?
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What was Pac-Man's original Japanese name, changed in the U.S. over fears vandals would alter the first letter?
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Which Xbox franchise stars the armored super-soldier Master Chief?
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Which Japanese electronics giant makes the PlayStation consoles?
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In what year did the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console, go on sale?
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Which Konami programmer invented the Konami Code while porting Gradius to the NES?
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In gaming, what does the genre abbreviation "FPS" stand for?
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What 1978 Taito arcade game had players shooting rows of aliens marching down the screen?
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