Video Games Flashcards
Which text-based game from Abersoft was based on teleplay game Colossal Cave Adventure?
Adventure 1/Classic Adventure
Which series of text adventure games had subtitles such as The Great Underground Empire, The Wizard of Frobozz and The Dungeon Master?
Zork
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.
Deadline
Originally intended to be Zork 4, which Infocom game sees players taking on Krill an evil warlock?
Enchanter
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.
Syphon Filter
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.
Galaxian
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?
Mel Croucher
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.
Deus Ex Machina
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.
Pimania
Which adventure game saw the player take the role of an adventurer who must traverse the fantasy Kingdom of Beroth to defeat Tobias?
Black Crystal
Which simple government simulation game, saw players manage the British economy and compete in elections every 5 years?
Great Britain Ltd.
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.
Gorf
Also known as ‘Made in France’ what Llamasoft game sees players trying to divert a bouncy ball using a paddle?
Deflex
Which Spectrum maze game sees players trying to escape two dinosaurs?
Escape
Which Psion game was a shameless clone of Pac Man?
Hungry Horace
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?
Granny’s Garden
Which Psion game was a shameless clone of Frogger?
Horace Goes Skiing
Which spectrum game was an unauthorised version of Monopoly? It was withdrawn from sale after legal action from Waddingtons
Automonopoli
Which Automata UK game was a clone of Q-bert, using pyramids rather than cubes?
Pi-Balled
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.
Manic Miner
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
Miner 2049er
Which shoot ‘em up maze video game published by Bug-Byte Software in 1983 sees the player battle the Grim Reaper?
Styx
Which compilation of ZX Spectrum games had the subtitle, the five worst games ever?
Don’t Buy This
Which fighting game starred American basketball player Shaquille O’Neal?
Shaq Fu
Which video game character took the form of a bobcat and was a lame imitation of Crash Bandicoot?
Bubsy
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?
Worse Thing Happen At Sea
Which spectrum game resembled snake and saw players acting from inside a computer game, destroying bugs and viruses known as spindles
Fatworm blows a sparky
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!
Pyjamarama!
Which Wally Week game sees a family taking a vacation that goes horribly wrong, leading them to become stranded on an island of cannibals?
Three Weeks in Paradise
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.
Ranarama
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…
Secret Armour of Antiriad
Which Liverpool captain had his own Spectrum game?
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer
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?
Lorelai and the Laser Eyes
Which early RARE game sees you solving puzzles and turning into a werewolf at night?
Knight Lore
Which spectrum game sees players avoiding the gaze of a mysterious monolith whilst slowly teleporting themselves up to the top of the mountain.
The Sentinel
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?
Vulcan
Which spectrum game sees Henhouse Harry leap across the screen with no fear of falling to his death?
Chuckie Egg
Which spectrum series sees an anthropomorphic egg visiting fantasy locations?
Dizzy
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.
Split Personalities
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.
MYTH: History in the Making
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.
Lords of Midnight
Which RARE puzzle game has you helping the two protagonists, escape from prison using their opposing abilities? One can jump, once can’t etc.
Head Over Heels
First Wally Week Game? It sees a Manic Mechanic style gameplay?
Automania
Which Wally Week game sees you trying to complete a days work as multiple members of the family?
Everyone’s A Wally
Which Wally Week game sees Wally’s son getting lost in the supermarket?
Herbert’s Dummy Run
Which game saw players trying to break the naughty-o-meter as the titular troublesome toddler?
Jack The Nipper
