Q 01/05

PlayStation controllers have face buttons marked with a circle, a cross, a square and which other shape?

A) A star

B) A triangle

C) A diamond

D) A hexagon

Answer · why

B) A triangle

A triangle: designer Teiyu Goto meant it as the player's viewpoint, the square as a sheet of paper for menus and documents, and the circle and cross a...

Q 02/05

The original Game Boy ran on four of which battery size?

A) AAA

B) AA

C) C

D) D

Answer · why

B) AA

AA cells: four of them ran a Game Boy far longer than its colour-screen rivals lasted, because Nintendo chose battery life and a low price over a bett...

Q 03/05

Which Pac-Man ghost is the red one that chases the player most directly?

A) Inky

B) Blinky

C) Pinky

D) Clyde

Answer · why

B) Blinky

Blinky is 'Oikake', the chaser, in the Japanese original and makes straight for Pac-Man, while Pinky, the ambusher, tries to get ahead and cut him off...

Q 04/05

Geralt of Rivia is the protagonist of which popular video game series?

A) The Witcher

B) Dragon Age

C) Fable

D) The Elder Scrolls

Answer · why

A) The Witcher

The Witcher's author, Andrzej Sapkowski, sold the game rights for a lump sum instead of a share of sales, and in 2018 demanded 60 million zloty more.

Q 05/05

Microsoft's Xbox took its name from which of the company's graphics technologies?

A) ActiveX

B) DirectX

C) Silverlight

D) ClearType

Answer · why

B) DirectX

DirectX powered the console, so its engineers called it the DirectX Box and then shortened that to Xbox; Microsoft's marketers preferred names such as...