Video Games

Question 1

Which text-based game from Abersoft was based on teleplay game Colossal Cave Adventure?

Answer 1

Adventure 1/Classic Adventure

Question 2

Which series of text adventure games had subtitles such as The Great Underground Empire, The Wizard of Frobozz and The Dungeon Master?

Answer 2

Zork

Question 3

Which game from Infocom, saw an unnamed police detective, summoned to a sprawling Connecticut estate to investigate the apparent suicide of wealthy industrialist Marshall Robner. It was introduced ‘feelies’ - physical documents that came with the game.

Answer 3

Deadline

Question 4

Originally intended to be Zork 4, which Infocom game sees players taking on Krill an evil warlock?

Answer 4

Enchanter

Question 5

Which game named for a mysterious chemical weapon sees special agents, Gabriel Logan and Lian Xing tasked by the United States government to apprehend Erich Rhoemer, an international terrorist.

Answer 5

Syphon Filter

Question 6

Namco’s answer to Taito’s Space Invaders, which similar space shooter sees players control the Galaxip starfighter in its mission to protect Earth from waves of aliens.

Answer 6

Galaxian

Question 7

Who is seen as the father of the British video games industry? He created the studio Automata Uk, who released Pimania, Groucho and Deus Ex Machina?

Answer 7

Mel Croucher

Question 8

Which 1984 Spectrum game included Ian Drury and Jon Pertwee in its cast. The game followed a defective machine that has taken the form of the human body. The players would experience the different stages of life, all the way from being a cell to being a senile old being.

Answer 8

Deus Ex Machina

Question 9

Which Automata game was the first video game treasure hunt? Automata gave a prize of a golden sundial worth £6,000 (equivalent to £26,700 in 2023) for the first person to solve the various cryptic clues to its location that were hidden within the game.

Answer 9

Pimania

Question 10

Which adventure game saw the player take the role of an adventurer who must traverse the fantasy Kingdom of Beroth to defeat Tobias?

Answer 10

Black Crystal

Question 11

Which simple government simulation game, saw players manage the British economy and compete in elections every 5 years?

Answer 11

Great Britain Ltd.

Question 12

Which Midway Manufacturing game, whose name was advertised as an acronym is a fixed shooter with five distinct levels. The game makes heavy use of synthesized speech for the robot which taunts the player, powered by the Votrax speech chip.

Answer 12

Gorf

Question 13

Also known as ‘Made in France’ what Llamasoft game sees players trying to divert a bouncy ball using a paddle?

Answer 13

Deflex

Question 14

Which Spectrum maze game sees players trying to escape two dinosaurs?

Answer 14

Escape

Question 15

Which Psion game was a shameless clone of Pac Man?

Answer 15

Hungry Horace

Question 16

Which BBC Micro Game was one of the first educational games for children, in which players must avoid a witch and find the King And Queen’s missing children?

Answer 16

Granny’s Garden

Question 17

Which Psion game was a shameless clone of Frogger?

Answer 17

Horace Goes Skiing

Question 18

Which spectrum game was an unauthorised version of Monopoly? It was withdrawn from sale after legal action from Waddingtons

Answer 18

Automonopoli

Question 19

Which Automata UK game was a clone of Q-bert, using pyramids rather than cubes?

Answer 19

Pi-Balled

Question 20

Which Bug-Byte game is the first in the Miner Willy series? Exploring twenty caverns players must collect objects before Willy’s oxygen supply runs out.

Answer 20

Manic Miner

Question 21

Manic Miner was inspired by what early Atari 8-bit game? The player controls Bounty Bob through multiple levels of a mine, with the goal of traversing all of the platforms while avoiding or defeating enemy mutants

Answer 21

Miner 2049er

Question 22

Which shoot ‘em up maze video game published by Bug-Byte Software in 1983 sees the player battle the Grim Reaper?

Answer 22

Styx

Question 23

Which compilation of ZX Spectrum games had the subtitle, the five worst games ever?

Answer 23

Don’t Buy This

Question 24

Which fighting game starred American basketball player Shaquille O’Neal?

Answer 24

Shaq Fu

Question 25

Which video game character took the form of a bobcat and was a lame imitation of Crash Bandicoot?

Answer 25

Bubsy

Question 26

Which Spectrum game has you playing as a maintenance robot working on an accident-prone cargo ship. The main aim of the game is to keep the ship afloat until you reach the destination?

Answer 26

Worse Thing Happen At Sea

Question 27

Which spectrum game resembled snake and saw players acting from inside a computer game, destroying bugs and viruses known as spindles

Answer 27

Fatworm blows a sparky

Question 28

Which game was the pioneering second game in the Wally Week series. The game has you navigating one of Wally’s fevered dreams in an effort to wake him up in time for work!

Answer 28

Pyjamarama!

Question 29

Which Wally Week game sees a family taking a vacation that goes horribly wrong, leading them to become stranded on an island of cannibals?

Answer 29

Three Weeks in Paradise

Question 30

Which Spectrum game sees you play as a wizard who’s been turned into a frog, and the aim is to search for evil wizards and clear them out of each level of the dungeon in turn.

Answer 30

Ranarama

Question 31

Which game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that has been sent back to the stone age after a nuclear holocaust. Prior to the nuclear war one of the countries had created an advanced prototype anti-radiation power-suit…

Answer 31

Secret Armour of Antiriad

Question 32

Which Liverpool captain had his own Spectrum game?

Answer 32

Emlyn Hughes International Soccer

Question 33

Which 2024 puzzle game sees a woman, summoned by an eccentric man to participate in a project in an old hotel somewhere in central Europe, becomes embroiled in a game of illusions?

Answer 33

Lorelai and the Laser Eyes

Question 34

Which early RARE game sees you solving puzzles and turning into a werewolf at night?

Answer 34

Knight Lore

Question 35

Which spectrum game sees players avoiding the gaze of a mysterious monolith whilst slowly teleporting themselves up to the top of the mountain.

Answer 35

The Sentinel

Question 36

The most in-depth of the strategy games on Spectrum and one of the stand-outs of its genre from the 80s, which games has you taking part in the North African campaign of WWII?

Answer 36

Vulcan

Question 37

Which spectrum game sees Henhouse Harry leap across the screen with no fear of falling to his death?

Answer 37

Chuckie Egg

Question 38

Which spectrum series sees an anthropomorphic egg visiting fantasy locations?

Answer 38

Dizzy

Question 39

Cleverly constructed puzzle game where the aim is to shift the tiles around the screen to build the face of famous personalities of the time.

Answer 39

Split Personalities

Question 40

Which game follows a struggle against an evil time-traveling Demon named Dameron. The old gods require a champion to fight him but are limited only to humans who believe in them (a scarcity in the 20th century), luckily they manage to find such a person and send the kid back in time.

Answer 40

MYTH: History in the Making

Question 41

Which game has you controlling multiple heroes as they traverse the land recruiting for your army and amassing a band of human and non-human heroes to join your troupe. . The ultimate goal is to destroy the Ice Crown, or amass an army and attack Doomdark’s Citadel.

Answer 41

Lords of Midnight

Question 42

Which RARE puzzle game has you helping the two protagonists, escape from prison using their opposing abilities? One can jump, once can’t etc.

Answer 42

Head Over Heels

Question 43

First Wally Week Game? It sees a Manic Mechanic style gameplay?

Answer 43

Automania

Question 44

Which Wally Week game sees you trying to complete a days work as multiple members of the family?

Answer 44

Everyone’s A Wally

Question 45

Which Wally Week game sees Wally’s son getting lost in the supermarket?

Answer 45

Herbert’s Dummy Run

Question 46

Which game saw players trying to break the naughty-o-meter as the titular troublesome toddler?

Answer 46

Jack The Nipper