Forums

Topic: Nintendo Life gaming quiz - Top 100 High Score for 2023

Posts 321 to 340 of 1,131

BabyYoda71

Still only know one of them... but it’s one from a lesser known game, so I might be in the small minority who gets it.

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.

lifer

The only one I'm missing for which hints are coming is 20... and the hint for it about row four didn't help me so much. I kinda assumed as much with the other four being grouped together...

lifer

lifer

@BabyYoshi12 I'm not sure you are right about it being a lesser known game. From what I can gather, it should be the third best selling game of these, and fairly close to the #1 and #2 in sales.

lifer

BabyYoda71

@lifer I wouldn’t say it’s a lesser known game , but not a very well known character. I don’t know, I can’t compare as I don’t know any others. 🤷‍♂️

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.

Mr_Horizon

lifer wrote:

I submitted my list. Did you go for low skill floor but high ceiling this time?

Usually I just attempt to make the quiz easy in the beginning, and hard in the end. And to avoid too many users with full score, I don't give any more hints on the last row.

I have set up some formulas in the results sheet that automatically give me a graph of the answer rate, it currently looks like this - quite close to what I wanted:

Untitled

I expected Nr.20 to be the hardest, but it had to stay it in the fourth row so I could keep all games there in the same genre.

BabyYoshi12 wrote:

Still only know one of them...

Let's see, there is one more clues post coming. Maybe that'll help you recognise another game... there's so many classics here!

Mr_Horizon

BabyYoda71

Oh, boy. Classics. Wish I could say that helps. I wouldn’t get 10 if you gave lots of obvious clues. 😆

That graph though... I was sort of right with 10. Not many people have it right in comparison to others. It’s in the middle, kind of.

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.

lifer

Thanks for sharing the graph, that's interesting.
0% right surely is a sign of a high ceiling. It's kinda enticing to try figuring that out now...
It looks like an Amiga or other computer game, but with no one having the answer, it could be something entirely different...

I'm somewhat surprised that even 24 and 25 see 10%+ correct answers. It seems there will be a couple of quizzers with 24 points. I need to up my quiz game even further!

BabyYoshi12 wrote:

That graph though... I was sort of right with 10.

Yeah, with less than half of the people having that right, I'd say you were definitely right about that!

Edited on by lifer

lifer

Mr_Horizon

August Quiz - Clues #2

"Dear customers, thank you for your visit today. Please take note that this store will close in one week!" So then... time to take another guess or two, with the final set of clues.
The item shop is about half full with 45 people, and two of them are from this forum.

So far all scores are between 2 and 23 points - here are the last clues:

1)​ Number 1 shows a well-known 3rd person action game by Capcom.
2)​ Game 20 was released twice, once in 2016 and once in 2020 (with a new name).
3)​ On picture 17 we see the ugly Spectrum version of a multiplatform Shmup from the late 80s.
4) Title 9 is a Playstation & PC game with lots of wild robots.

Deadline is Monday the 31st August, participate via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/

Here is the quiz again, good luck!
https://i1.lensdump.com/i/jbXhue.png

Edited on by Mr_Horizon

Mr_Horizon

Dogorilla

I still don't know many of these, there's a few that I sort of vaguely recognise but can't think what they are which is annoying

"Remember, Funky's the Monkey!"

Funky Kong

Bunkerneath

@Mr_Horizon Are you supposed to name the game or the person? As some of them I dont think have actual names.

I AM ERROR

Switch Friend Code: SW-5538-4050-1819 | 3DS Friend Code: 1633-4650-1215 | My Nintendo: Bunkerneath | Nintendo Network ID: Bunkerneat | Twitter:

BabyYoda71

GASP I might recognize #25!!! I’m 0.01% confident though. If it’s who I think it is, everyone would know it.

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.

lifer

Still missing 20 and 25.
I figured out 24, but even with the two pointers on 20, I still got no clue yet...
Did anyone figure that one out now after the final set of hints?

lifer

Dogorilla

@lifer Nope, I thought I'd be able to work out #20 with that clue but I still have no idea. #25 is one of the few that I do know though

"Remember, Funky's the Monkey!"

Funky Kong

lifer

@Dogorilla Nice! I had a couple of ideas, but none confirmed.
@BabyYoshi12 Hope you got that one right, too. Once you go beyond Mario or Pikachu, there won't be many game characters everyone would recognize, so who knows.
@Bunkerneath Definitely the game title. In months where character names were also fine had that noted explicitly in the OP.

Edited on by lifer

lifer

Mr_Horizon

@Bunkerneath What lifer said. I don't think all of these characters even have names.
@lifer It is still by far the hardest game of this round, with a 3% answer rate. Don't beat yourself up if you don't have it, you already got a great score!
@dogorilla I can confirm - you know one of the games lifer doesn't have. It is the 3rd toughest title.
@BabyYoshi12 Now I am curious too, please participate so I can see!

Edited on by Mr_Horizon

Mr_Horizon

BabyYoda71

@Dogorilla ... @lifer ... @Mr_Horizon ... I locked in #25. I’m certain it’s incorrect. But there’s only one way to find out. Geez, August is almost over.

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.

lifer

One more to go...

lifer

Mr_Horizon

Untitled

August Quiz - Answers & Score

Thank you for visiting our shop! Almost a hundred people joined in (nice!), but now the store is closed and this round over.
From "nothing right" to "full score" every point combination can be found. Two people managed to find out every single title - one right on the first try, the other by updating in the last moment. Who are these two? You will have to scroll down!

The results are visible at the end of this post, we start with the names of the games as text, then the answer image and finally the High Score Table.

1) Resident Evil 4
answer rate: 88%
other suggestions: Devil May Cry

2) Majoras Mask 3D
Some more polygons than on the N64, this picture is from the remake for the Nintendo 3DS.
answer rate: 90%
other suggestions: -

3) Secret of Monkey Island
answer rate: 91%
other suggestions: -

4) Mass Effect 3
answer rate: 79%
other suggestions: -

5) Catherine
answer rate: 74%
other suggestions: Ico, Zelda Twilight Princess

6) Spyro 2
answer rate: 55%
other suggestions: Banjo Kazooie, Grim Fandango, Pandemonium

7) NieR:Automata
answer rate: 76%
other suggestions: Fallout

8.) Spelunky HD
answer rate: 78%
other suggestions: Braid, Terraria, Wild 9

9) Horizon Zero Dawn
answer rate: 71%
other suggestions: Armored Core, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Binary Domain, Detroit Become Human, the surge

10) Splatoon 2
answer rate: 47%
other suggestions: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Mini Ninja, Minions, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Pikmin, Psychonauts

11) Rock n Roll Racing
answer rate: 45%
other suggestions: Battletoads, die total verrückte Rally

12) God of War
answer rate: 69%
other suggestions: Assassins Creed Odyssee

13) Pirates!
answer rate: 46%
other suggestions: Eye of the Beholder, Might and Magic, Patrizier, port royale, 1869, Uncharted Waters

14) Destiny 2
answer rate: 55%
other suggestions: Lost Planet, Resident Evil 5, Warframe

15) Wonderboy in Monsterland
answer rate: 36%
other suggestions: -

16) X-Out
answer rate: 26%
other suggestions: -

17) Forgotten Worlds
answer rate: 31%
other suggestions: Dragon Quest, gunstar, Nemesis, Salamander, Trantor

18.) Xenon 2
This game already showed up in the Frankenstein Quiz two months ago... but it was only then that I discovered that great 80s sales alien!
answer rate: 45%
other suggestions: R-Type, Star Control 2, Zarlor Mercenary

19) Lords of Thunder
answer rate: 30%
other suggestions: Exile Wicked Phenomenon, Phantasy Star, Ultima, Ys

20) 1993 Shenandoah
In the year 1993 a swedish team developed a horizontal scrolling Shoot'em'up for the Amiga, which didn't get a release. However, in 2016 the game got rediscovered and published as "1993 Space Machine" for PC, followed by a Switch release in 2020 as "1993 Shenandoah". Congrats to the SEVEN players who managed to solve this one!
answer rate: 7%
other suggestions: Chaos Engine, Crush, Dan Malone, Doom, Fallout, Shadowrun, Speedball, Jamestown

21) Sea of Thieves
answer rate: 41%
other suggestions: Civilization, Dishonored, Fable, Final Fantasy,Fortnite, Outer Worlds

22) Ishar 2
answer rate: 23%
other suggestions: Das Schwarze Auge, Eric the Unready, Link: The Faces of Evil

23) Merchant
answer rate: 38%
other suggestions: Betrayal at Krondor, discworld, Legend of Kyrandia

24) Crawl
answer rate: 11%
other suggestions: Enter the Gungeon, King's Quest 5, Medieval Shopkeeper Simulator, Moonlighter, Hyper Light Drifter

25) Kid Icarus
answer rate: 17%
other suggestions: Kaiser, Lords of Midnight, The Legend Of Zelda, Wizardry

Here is the quiz image again, followed by the answer image:
Untitled

Answers:
Untitled
direct link: https://i1.lensdump.com/i/0A2zpK.png

HIGH SCORE

01 - 25 points - hcg - Excelsior
01 - 25 points - rpg - J.R.
03 - 24 points - ntl - lifer
04 - 24 points - mnc - Gerhard S.
05 - 24 points - spz - Strider
06 - 24 points - spz - The_BACH
07 - 23 points - dgo - fl0rian
08 - 23 points - rta - Earthpainting
09 - 23 points - m!g - Kong
10 - 22 points - mmx - Knuckles

11 - 22 points - rta - residentgrigo
12 - 22 points - rta - Illusionary
13 - 22 points - gav - Wizdom
14 - 22 points - pcx - Splunge
15 - 22 points - mnc - Dreamteam
16 - 22 points - rpg - Calastellio
17 - 22 points - rta - Lafazar
18 - 21 points - pop - A Gentle Breeze
19 - 21 points - eab - NOBBY_UK
20 - 21 points - spz - Neural
21 - 20 points - m!g - Thrawn
22 - 20 points - eab - darkwave
23 - 19 points - eab - Havie
24 - 19 points - eab - Biscuit
25 - 19 points - mtc - Wibblewozzer
26 - 18 points - mmx - fedprod
27 - 17 points - can - Eiffel-AD
28 - 17 points - gav - Vecrix
29 - 16 points - gsg - partykiller
30 - 15 points - mmx - TheSnesFreak
31 - 15 points - rta - aLaxLuthor
32 - 14 points - hcg - windfisch
33 - 14 points - mnc - elementalMaster
34 - 14 points - gms - kopyright
35 - 14 points - rta - jett
36 - 14 points - mtc - MegaApple
37 - 14 points - m!g - geohound
38 - 13 points - eab - Belgarath
39 - 13 points - rtc - Antiriad2097
40 - 13 points - mnc - Lukulus
41 - 13 points - mtc - Parsnip
42 - 13 points - gms - hellermarie
43 - 12 points - ntl - JoakimZ
44 - 12 points - pop - Don Como
45 - 12 points - gpo - Maryokutai
46 - 12 points - 4py - Crimson Idol
47 - 12 points - 4py - Scorplian
48 - 12 points - mtc - mssq
49 - 12 points - rta - FaffEra
50 - 11 points - rpg - Yokan
51 - 11 points - 4py - Khorneblume
52 - 11 points - rta - Zolbrod
53 - 11 points - mnc - Mangamaniac71
54 - 11 points - gpo - Echelon
55 - 11 points - can - Kulfy
56 - 11 points - 4py - DancingDan
57 - 10 points - m!g - zweiblooom
58 - 10 points - can - Bouyi
59 - 10 points - mmx - LittleChoco
60 - 10 points - m!g - Rudi Ratlos
61 - 10 points - rta - Blufunk
62 - 10 points - lgs - Frosch
63 - 10 points - ntl - Blooper987
64 - 10 points - gpo - rave
65 - 10 points - mtc - QFNS
66 - 10 points - m!g - Red XIII
67 - 10 points - rta - Emergency & I
68 - 09 points - rpg - D4rkD
69 - 09 points - mmx - Shades
70 - 09 points - mnc - Sonic2d
71 - 09 points - rta - PsionBolt
72 - 09 points - can - Franky Mikey
73 - 09 points - m!g - SonicFanNerd
74 - 08 points - pop - Sascha
75 - 08 points - mnc - HomiSite
76 - 08 points - mnc - Mitschel
77 - 08 points - gpo - Klingsor-
78 - 07 points - hcg - Snake
79 - 07 points - ntl - Dogorilla
80 - 07 points - hcg - teroknor
81 - 07 points - sh2 - retro74
82 - 07 points - lgs - Darkcloud
83 - 07 points - vgz - Walti
84 - 07 points - rta - Embrodak
85 - 07 points - 4py - schockbock
86 - 07 points - gms - hellifanboy
87 - 06 points - rtc - Elgin_mcqueen
88 - 05 points - gav - Yoshi
89 - 04 points - pcx - Pascal Parvex
90 - 04 points - sh2 - godzella
91 - 04 points - rta - malus
92 - 03 points - eab - mailman
93 - 03 points - 4py - Akabei
94 - 03 points - mmx - Loxagon
95 - 03 points - rta - T
96 - 02 points - pop - PUH
97 - 01 points - pop - Daiyama
98 - 00 points - ntl - BabyYoshi12

4py = 4Players Forum
can = Canard PC
dgo = dialogoption
eab = English Amiga Board
gpo = Gamepro Forum
gsg = Gamers Global
gms = Gamestar Forum
guf = Gaming Universe Forum
hcg = hardcore gaming 101
lgs = last game standing
m!g = M!Games Forum
mtc = Metacouncil Forum
mmx = Multimediaxis Forum
mnc = altes maniac Forum
ntl = NintendoLife Forum
pcx = PCX Forum
pop = PowerPlay Forum
rta = ResetEra Forum
rtc = Retro Canteen Forum
rpg = RPG Maker MV Forum
sh2 = Shock² Forum
spz = Spazio PC
vgz = Videogameszone Forum

Here's a winners ceremony! Congratulations to Excelsior, J.R., lifer, Gerhard S and the italian Strider - you are the Top 5 and won this round!

Also Kudos to The_BACH, fl0rian, Earthpainting, Kong and Knuckles - together you form the Top 10.

local high score:

1 - 24 points - lifer
2 - 12 points - JoakimZ
3 - 10 points - Blooper987
4 - 07 points - Dogorilla
5 - 00 points - BabyYoshi12

Congrats to lifer for the local lead - you are the highest "24 points" player, as you got the two hardest titles right but missed "Kid Icarus".

@BabyYoshi12 - a shame it didn't work out, here is a a picture so you can see what the Zelda sales people look like next to the one from Kid Icarus: Untitled

Thank you all for joining in and see you next time!

Edited on by Mr_Horizon

Mr_Horizon

Please login or sign up to reply to this topic