Topic: Nintendo Life gaming quiz

Many thanks again, and it was definitely steady persistence on my part, although I'm a bit chuffed to have made the top thirty.

Congrats to @Charlix12323 and everyone else, of course.

@Mr_Horizon
Have I ever participate in this Quiz thread?
I didn't remember if I have ever participated.
And I got -2 points, from which question ?

Yes, you joined exactly once, in May 2022!

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/other_gaming/monthly_nint...

The "-2" means that in 2023 you had two points less than in the year before, but had zero points in 2023. You were just included because it is a TOP 20 list.

Just a Question, not putting myself forward by the way.

Does anyone want to make up a new quiz? Please do

The retrogamequiz - the lottery winners

So, I've disappeared from the scene for a while, not only in this thread, but in the whole forum (heck, in ALL forums). Mea culpa! Instead of ‘end of March’, the prize draw will now take place at the end of April.

As a reminder, this is what I wrote in January, these prizes are waiting for the lucky winners:

1x Neo Geo Mini from Maniac forum admin Rocco
1x 50€ Mystery Box from ‘www.retroplace.com - Your marketplace for video games & consoles’
1x ATARI: Art and Design of Video Games. The translator Stephan Freundorfer is publishing the ‘Prince of Persia’ diaries together with the game designer Jordan Mechner in April this year.

The prizes will be raffled off among the top 50, no legal recourse.

So, in this picture are the top 50 from the last round - did I forget anyone? ^_^

Now the magic happens...

...if the picture is not enough, here is a video: https://youtu.be/ru863iy7lzE?si=MnkJxDE84UB9zLY8 More documentation is not available.

And our winners! °_°

Mmmh, unfortunately nobody from this forum. -_-

These three users will be contacted in May with their addresses. If someone does not get in touch or does not want to give their address, the prize will be awarded at the end of the month to the user of the respective forum with the most total points.

***

Is that it now? No!

No, because there is one thing left - the 10 year overall ranking, with a special prize. This is coming... sometime in May. We have time now.

10 YEAR HIGH SCORE

For ten years I organised this quiz - but now every last riddle has been posted and its answers processed, the raffle has been completed (winners will get a package this month) and as of last night the enormous 10 YEAR HIGH SCORE is public:

When the video shows awards for "Top 10" or "3rd", those are about good scores for the year/season, not for individual quizzes.

To all players: You have to watch the video until you found your own entry! Don't worry, it gets more interesting starting minute three. Congrats to @lifer for his victories, and to @Dogorilla for her great consistency (no one at NintendoLife played more often than you)!

I also uploaded a variant of the raw data into a google spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aFyPRG88cjCRKFhoiJrTD...

Oh, and the final special prize?

I printed a memento for myself, a 100 page picture book with all my quizzes. It looks something like this:

(always one page for the quiz and the answer on its back side)

The winner of the 10-year-high-score gets one as well, and if any of you are interested I can print more (and you send me the money, I guess about 45€).

Well then... thank you all for playing!

@Mr_Horizon WOOP WOOP!! 214th Not bad as I kept on doing them but then forgetting to submit them
Averages out as 9 each game

Now please someone else take this on.

That's a great video! Can't believe I did 64 quizzes! The book looks really nice too.

Congrats to @lifer for finishing so high, and thank you again to @Mr_Horizon for all the work you put into these quizzes over the years!

@Dogorilla That's over five years worth of quizzes. Nice!

@Mr_Horizon The video is great, I enjoyed watching it. Not as much as the playing, of course! I just couldn't dedicate any time, and more importantly, headspace, to the quizzing anymore from 2023, so that I just had to drop out. A top 10 position would have been doable, I guess.

Thank you very, very much for all the effort that went into preparing the quizzes, and doing all the posts and community building throughout the span of 10 years. TEN. FRICKING. YEARS!
Congratulations to bringing it to the end as planned! It truly is an achievement.

Looks like I didn't quite make the top hundred. Ah well, that's still not bad for only doing it for a year and a half, I'd say.

I can only marvel at the dedication of the people at the top.

A big thanks to @Mr_Horizon from me, too.

Thank you all for the kind words! ^_^

I wanted to suggest something - I am visiting London at the end of August along with my girlfriend to see some former colleagues from my time in the UK. Another frequent quiz player (Havie from the English Amiga Board) has opened up a retro computer store in southern London just a few months ago, and I will go there on a Saturday to say hi. Now I am wondering if we could even get a small group of former players from various forums together. @Dogorilla and @Bunkerneath - you are from the UK, would you be interested?

@Mr_Horizon Ah I won't be able to make it to London in August unfortunately, but hope you have a good time

@Mr_Horizon Unfortunately was in London last weekend, but I live on a little island called Guernsey so not easy to get away

Fair enough, thanks for getting back to me so fast.

I'll post a picture if we manage to be more than three people!