Q 01/05

Which monster-catching RPG series grew out of Satoshi Tajiri's childhood hobby of collecting insects?

A) Digimon

B) Pokémon

C) Monster Rancher

D) Yo-kai Watch

Answer · why

B) Pokémon

Pokémon took shape when Tajiri pictured bugs crawling along the Game Boy's link cable from one player to another. As a boy he had wanted to become an ...

Q 02/05

Which post-apocalyptic RPG series uses bottle caps as currency and has a mascot called Vault Boy?

A) Wasteland

B) Borderlands

C) Metro

D) Fallout

Answer · why

D) Fallout

Fallout began in 1997 as a spiritual successor to Wasteland, a 1988 game made at the same company, Interplay.

Q 03/05

Which online RPG's 2005 virtual plague, Corrupted Blood, was later studied by real epidemiologists?

A) World of Warcraft

B) Star Wars Galaxies

C) EverQuest

D) Ultima Online

Answer · why

A) World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft players carried the curse out of its dungeon through infected pets, and outbreaks hit the capital cities. Researchers valued it as a...

Q 04/05

Which 2022 action RPG's backstory was written by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire?

A) Bloodborne

B) Dark Souls III

C) Elden Ring

D) Demon's Souls

Answer · why

C) Elden Ring

Elden Ring gave Martin a free hand with events before the main story, while director Hidetaka Miyazaki stayed lead writer of the story players actuall...

Q 05/05

Which tabletop game, created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974, inspired the first computer RPGs?

A) Magic: The Gathering

B) Dungeons & Dragons

C) Warhammer

D) RuneQuest

Answer · why

B) Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons was being copied onto university mainframes by the mid-1970s, and video games still borrow much of its vocabulary, settings and rul...