The Shrine

8-bit Computer Game Quiz

I felt like since I was playing on an ATARI for most of my childhood, it seems like there was a lot of stuff that I was playing that nobody else really heard of. This is my chance to find out.

<hr>Also, this is a new image quiz creator I designed. If you want me to put up your own quiz (gaming or otherwise), e-mail me a zip file with the following:

1. All of your images, preferably marked as 01.gif, 02.gif, etc., so that people can't guess by your filename.

2. A text file with the following format:

The first line will have the title of your quiz, a pipe symbol, and a description of your quiz, all in one line. HTML is okay for the description, but it has to be on one line. The other lines will be the quiz entries, seperated in | (pipes). The first part is the image name, the second part is the main answer, and you can optionally put in as many "secondary" answers as you want, seperated by pipes again. For example:

Title|Description{br}blah, blah, blah
01.gif|Enter the Dragon: Bruce Lee's Revenge|Enter the Dragon
02.gif|Another Game

Damn dude, when you said obscure, you freaking meant it.

I've only got two so far (and that's all I'm gonna get), and I know I've played #24, but it's not Congo Bongo and that's the only jungle-themed Atari game that's not Pitfall that I can think of at the moment.

Agent 57 wrote:Damn dude, when you said obscure, you freaking meant it.

It's funny because I played these games all the time. I also played games like Pitfall, Pengo, WarGames, Boulder Dash, but I figured those were too obvious.

Agent 57 wrote:I've only got two so far (and that's all I'm gonna get), and I know I've played #24, but it's not Congo Bongo and that's the only jungle-themed Atari game that's not Pitfall that I can think of at the moment.

Yeah, #24 is probably more obsure than most of them. It was a game on a cartridge made by ATARI. BTW, which two did you get?

A few hints:

#10-14 are LucasFilm Games first four titles.
#1 and #6 are both Datasoft games, even though they are two totally different games.
I've mentioned #6 a few times before.
#8 and #29 are both made by the same guy, Bill Williams (both very good games even today)
#28 is easier than you think
#26 was done by the same team that did Prince of Persia
#20 and #30 were done by the same company
I would have used a different screenshot for #14, but it would have revealed what type of game it was.
#7, #9, and #18 already reveal too much.

I could probably add another 5-10 to this one. I'm starting to remember some other titles.

Why does it say Mom when I forget to put in my name? You should make the Nick required before it will check answers.

Ack! How old are you, Sine? I thought you were my age, but most of these are even before my time. Unless there wasn't real great game distribution in Kentucky back then...

Sine is 26

So far I've got 23, 26, and 28. 23 and 26 I played over at friends' houses when I was a kid, and I recognized 28 after I actually read the text.

Seraphina wrote:Why does it say Mom when I forget to put in my name? You should make the Nick required before it will check answers.

It says Shellie. I think Mom is my mother, since I showed it to her.

Mental wrote:Ack! How old are you, Sine? I thought you were my age, but most of these are even before my time. Unless there wasn't real great game distribution in Kentucky back then...

Nah, I had good connections even back then. My parents befriended the guy from the computer store where they bought the computer. He had good pirate connections, and was the first person I'd heard of to use a modem. I used to have about 2-3 disk boxes of games, each with their own little selector loader (since the pirates back then would fit a bunch of games onto one disk).

I owe a lot to that ATARI. I took to BASIC on that thing instantly.

Agent 57 wrote:So far I've got 23, 26, and 28. 23 and 26 I played over at friends' houses when I was a kid, and I recognized 28 after I actually read the text.

28 was an awesome game. the best Infocom ever made! My parents had actually bought that one, and all the stuff that came with it was great. Go here, do a search on the game name, and check out all of the screenshots of the stuff that came with it.

We also bought #6, just out of choice, but they did have that new "bad sector" copy protection. If it detected a copy, the game would actually give you an encounter, about 30 minutes into it, of 2 "FBI Agents" that attacked with the "Long Arm of the Law". Kinda creative, but it was a shame that the full series died at that point. (Technology was moving too fast and it was too hard to port each series to a new platform each time.)

You said Atari, right? I had a ton of Atari games, none of those, however...

Bah. Do one for NES or SNES games and I'd rape it. I was too young for these ones.

I got 4...what's sad is I distinctly remember playing almost all of those games, I just can't remember the names of them.

EsquE wrote:I got 4...what's sad is I distinctly remember playing almost all of those games, I just can't remember the names of them.

Wow, you're like the only one.

Remembered a few more since last night...got up to seven.

I need to see an answer list though...this is driving me crazy. I could've sworn #22 was Skyfox...and 17 was Magic Carpet...I gots to know!!!

Answers:

01 - Pooyan
02 - Countdown
03 - Hacker
04 - Montezuma's Revenge
05 - Lode Runner's Rescue
06 - Alternate Reality - The Dungeon -OR- Alternate Reality
07 - New York City - The Big Apple -OR- New York City
08 - Necromancer
09 - The Halley Project
10 - Ballblazer -OR- Ballblaster
11 - The Eidolon -OR- Eidolon
12 - Koronis Rift
13 - Rescue on Fractalus!
14 - Trivia Quest
15 - Jumpman
16 - Miner 2049er -OR- Bounty Bob Strikes Back!
17 - Master of the Lamps
18 - M.U.L.E.
19 - Crisis Mountain
20 - Forbidden Forest
21 - Type Attack
22 - F-15 Strike Eagle
23 - Mountain King
24 - Jungle Hunt
25 - The Spy Strikes Back -OR- Spy's Demise
26 - Karateka
27 - Snokie
28 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
29 - Alley Cat
30 - Caverns of Khafka
31 - Crystal Castles
32 - Mr. Do!
33 - Pengo
34 - Star Raiders
35 - Dandy Dungeon -OR- Dandy
36 - Millipede
37 - World Championship Karate

Damn...I'm pretty sure I had every single one of those...we had quite the pirating ring running with the C64...literally had thousands of games...

What a great little computer...