Q 01/05

Which fighter outruns Galeem's beams on a Warp Star to become the lone survivor in Smash Ultimate's World of Light?

A) Sonic

B) Pikachu

C) Kirby

D) Captain Falcon

Answer · why

C) Kirby

Kirby pushes the Warp Star to warp speed and vanishes just before the beams reach him. He then crash-lands alone in a canyon of the remade world.

Q 02/05

Whose last request to Masahiro Sakurai, made before his death, was a Smash Bros. game for the Nintendo Switch?

A) Satoru Iwata

B) Hiroshi Yamauchi

C) Gunpei Yokoi

D) Masayuki Uemura

Answer · why

A) Satoru Iwata

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, made the request before he died in 2015. Sakurai said he wanted Ultimate to be the best game he could make out of ...

Q 03/05

Smash Ultimate became the best-selling fighting game ever by overtaking the record of which 1990s arcade hit?

A) Mortal Kombat II

B) Samurai Shodown II

C) Virtua Fighter 2

D) Street Fighter II

Answer · why

D) Street Fighter II

Street Fighter II had sold about 15.5 million copies across all its versions. Ultimate overtook that total in 2019, within a year of going on sale.

Q 04/05

Which hero, the top pick in a 2015 fan vote, became the final DLC fighter added to Smash Ultimate?

A) Rayman

B) Sora

C) Geno

D) Dante

Answer · why

B) Sora

Sora arrived in October 2021 after Sakurai met a Disney representative at an awards venue. Until then the team had assumed the Kingdom Hearts rights w...

Q 05/05

Which block-building game supplied Steve, whose arrival forced Smash Ultimate's developers to rework every single stage?

A) Minecraft

B) LEGO Worlds

C) Terraria

D) Fortnite

Answer · why

A) Minecraft

Minecraft's Steve mines materials and places blocks in mid-fight, so every stage had to be adjusted. Talks about the crossover had begun roughly five ...