Q 01/05

Which Atari 2600 film tie-in, programmed in about five weeks for Christmas 1982, was dumped in a New Mexico landfill?

A) Raiders of the Lost Ark

B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

C) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

D) The Empire Strikes Back

Answer · why

B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is often blamed for helping to trigger the 1983 games crash, and a 2014 dig at the Alamogordo site proved the burial legend...

Q 02/05

Which Nintendo handheld, bundled with Tetris at its 1989 American launch, was later carried into orbit by a cosmonaut?

A) Game Boy

B) Game & Watch

C) Nintendo DS

D) Pokémon Mini

Answer · why

A) Game Boy

The Game Boy flew with Aleksandr Serebrov, whose Tetris session is counted as the first time a video game was played in space.

Q 03/05

Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell opened the first restaurant of which pizza-and-arcade chain in San Jose in 1977?

A) Peter Piper Pizza

B) Dave & Buster's

C) Chuck E. Cheese

D) Round Table Pizza

Answer · why

C) Chuck E. Cheese

Chuck E. Cheese began as Pizza Time Theatre, a way for Atari to place its own arcade machines, and Bushnell later bought the rights from Atari for $50...

Q 04/05

Nintendo began in 1889 as a maker of handmade playing cards in which Japanese city, still its headquarters?

A) Osaka

B) Nagoya

C) Yokohama

D) Kyoto

Answer · why

D) Kyoto

Kyoto is where Fusajiro Yamauchi began producing hanafuda 'flower cards', which had become popular after Japan banned most forms of gambling in 1882.

Q 05/05

Which Nintendo console, codenamed Revolution in development, launched in 2006 with a motion-sensing remote?

A) N64

B) Wii

C) DSi

D) 3DS

Answer · why

B) Wii

The Wii became the best-selling console of its generation within a year, and its lifetime sales passed 101 million.