Whitby - All about Video Games: 3400 Facts and Trivia Bits about enjoyable entertainment landmarks

All about Video Games: 3400 Facts and Trivia Bits about enjoyable entertainment landmarks Isaac Whitby Introduction Video games help develop cognitive ability, problem solving skills, reaction times, and team work. Video games give the brain a thorough workout in a simulated real life environment. They are the dominant form of two party entertainment these days, and this book is a tribute to all the great games that have delighted billions of players over the past 50 years. Whichever video game you're a hardcore fan of, this trivia quiz book will give you all you ever wanted: a chance to test your knowledge of the most popular video games of all time. We sit at a very interesting point in history. After a year when every member of the human race was more or less confined to one spot, video game sales spiked to an all time high - whether you are a console player or a PC gamer or a mobile player, odds are that you have contributed to the huge boom in the video game market.

With an expansion in the market has come a fresh influx of AAA titles - of games that take player engagement and world immersion to new, and unprecedented, heights. One only has to compare the open world beauty of Breath of the Wild to the original The Legend of Zelda to marvel at the incredible leaps that a format of art can take over the course of three short decades. Game studios pump out works of astonishing creativity in a few years each, and we have to respect their hard work and genre-bending mindset. Interactive movies are no longer something that we can hope for in the distant future: they're right here, and we call them video games! The benefits of video games are also beginning to be understood by a broad cross section of society. From their use in training (for example, in pilot simulators) to their use in experiential industries (the VR tech used in tourism was largely developed by and for gamers), video games are at the cutting edge of technology, and its interactions with humans and societies. No longer are they seen as time sinks: in addition to the benefits listed above, platforms like Twitch have made streaming a legitimate revenue stream, and created millionaires out of people who are able to share their therapeutic gameplay with a large audience across the world.

This is a trivia contest with a difference: to do well, you will need to be a video game fan (casual and devoted fans are both welcome, since the level of difficulty slopes upwards gently), and you will need to have an alert brain, that is able to bring together many different pieces of information, and process all of them to come up with an overall coherent message. You can attempt the video game based puzzles in this book at your own pace. There are 5 hints for each question (in addition to the main clue about the game's name or title), so you will have all the information you need to guess each title. Even if you can't, the wealth of information in the hints (and the answers provided at the end of the book), will ensure that you leave each clue with more knowledge than when you came in; your brain will definitely be expanded, even as your fingers each to be reunited with your controller again, so that you can experience the games that filled your youth with hours of innocent fun. I have tried to include as many different game platforms as possible. From the Nintendo 64 to the PlayStation 4, from the original XBox to PC exclusive games, everything is represented! Table of Contents Chapter 1 How this works You will be given multiple clues in each set, and you have to guess the name of the famous video game that the clues lead to.

The first clue removes a few letters from the name of the video game, and you have to guess the name from the remainder. The second clue gives you the primary device for which the game was released. For Nintendo exclusive titles, for example, this can be a very useful data point. The remaining clues give you other helpful hints: like the Initial Year of Release, the genre, and the publisher. Answers can be found later in this book. Good luck.

Let's get started:

*** 1 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): C_a_h B_n_i_o_t: _h_ _r_t_ _f C_r_e_ Primary Gaming Device: PS2 Initial Release Year: 2001 Type of Game: Platform Game Publisher: Universal Interactive --

*** 2 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): M_n_p_l_ Primary Gaming Device: PC Initial Release Year: 1994 Type of Game: Other Game Publisher: Hasbro Interactive --

*** 3 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): D_n_e_ _o_g L_n_ Primary Gaming Device: GB Initial Release Year: 1994 Type of Game: Platform Game Publisher: Nintendo --

*** 4 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): D_a_o_ _u_s_ _I_: W_r_i_r_ _f E_e_ Primary Gaming Device: PS Initial Release Year: 2000 Type of Game: Role-Playing Game Publisher: Enix Corporation --

*** 5 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): K_r_y: _i_h_m_r_ _n D_e_m L_n_ Primary Gaming Device: GBA Initial Release Year: 2002 Type of Game: Platform Game Publisher: Nintendo --

*** 6 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): D_ _a_i_ Primary Gaming Device: GB Initial Release Year: 1989 Type of Game: Puzzle Game Publisher: Nintendo --

*** 7 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): N_m_o M_s_u_ Primary Gaming Device: GBA Initial Release Year: 2001 Type of Game: Other Game Publisher: Namco Bandai Games --

*** 8 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): M_r_o K_r_ _i_ Primary Gaming Device: Wii Initial Release Year: 2008 Type of Game: Racing Game Publisher: Nintendo --

*** 9 *** Name of a Video Game (half the letters are replaced by symbols): H_l_ 5: G_a_d_a_s Primary Gaming Device: XOne Initial Release Year: 2015 Type of Game: Shooter Game Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios --

Chapter 2 How this works Just like before, you are given multiple clues to help you guess each video game's name. The nature of the first, and main, clue - completely different, however. Here's what you can expect in this chapter: The first (and primary) clue will give you the letters of each word in the video game title, but all the letters will be scrambled in order within each word. The words will still be separated from each other, but what you are left with within the words will be total gibberish. Here's a sample: CALL OF DUTY could become LALC FO YTUD, and so on. The second clue gives you the primary device for which the game was released.

For Nintendo exclusive titles, for example, this can be a very useful data point. The remaining clues give you other helpful hints: like the Initial Year of Release, the genre, and the publisher. You will find this very helpful while trying to guess the last few letters in the name of a video game that is unfamiliar to you. Answers can be found later in this book. Good luck. Let's get started:

*** 1 *** Name of a Video Game (letters in each word are jumbled up): rposy eht odangr Primary Gaming Device: PS Initial Release Year: 1998 Type of Game: Platform Game Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment --

*** 2 *** Name of a Video Game (letters in each word are jumbled up): elfab iii Primary Gaming Device: X360 Initial Release Year: 2010 Type of Game: Role-Playing Game Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios --

*** 3 *** Name of a Video Game (letters in each word are jumbled up): oyika htcaw suberts Primary Gaming Device: 3DS Initial Release Year: 2015 Type of Game: Action Game Publisher: Level 5 --

*** 4 *** Name of a Video Game (letters in each word are jumbled up): eps 9020: pro uintveloo rccose Primary Gaming Device: PS2 Initial Release Year: 2008 Type of Game: Sports Game Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment --

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