126 players confirm it for me - there really are a hell of a lot of first-person shooters out there, and I could create two more puzzles from this round's incorrect submissions alone! I wonder which game in this round was the most guessed? One of the heavyweights of the shooter scene perhaps, so Halo, Doom, Quake or Half-Life? Nah, it's a newcomer that's not even ten years old. Scroll down and see for yourself which one it is.
Briefly on the bonus question - the background video is a really old Windows screensaver, called "3D Maze". 53% of you guessed that correctly too! There was no bonus point because some of the answers were a bit vague and I didn't want to be unfair.
But now let's start with the answers... first the names of the games as text, then the pictures, then the high score.
1) Halo 3
You got all the Halos wildly mixed up, but it's actually a picture from the third part.
Answer rate: 85%
Other suggestions: Destiny, Haze, Splitgate
2) Superhot: Mind Control Delete
The third entry of the stylish fps with the cool time control feature, and also the most guessed game of this round!
Answer rate: 92%
Other suggestions: Killer 7, Superliminal
3) Team Fortress 2
Who still remembers Valve's "Orange Box"?
Answer rate: 90%
Other suggestions: 4x Serious Sam, Borderlands, Fortnite, XIII
4) Quake 3 Arena
Maybe the answer rate would have been higher if I had taken the Sarge with the cigar as an opponent and not the funny eye?
Answer rate: 67%
Other suggestions: Daikatana, Doom, Serious Sam, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Duke Nukem Land of the Babes, Fortnite, Silent Hill The Escape, The Legs have Eyes
5) Half Life: Blue Shift
This version of the Half Life story was even available for the Sega Dreamcast!
Answer rate: 91%
Other suggestions: Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, System Shock 2
6) Doom Eternal: the ancient gods 2.
The "Dark Lord", final boss in the second DLC to Doom Eternal.
Answer rate: 65%
Other suggestions: 5x Destiny, Daikatana, Gobots, Metal Hellsinger, Painkiller, Unreal, Warhammer 40k
7) Titanfall
Even before Apex Legends, Titanfall Assault and Titanfall 2 - this game kicked it all off in 2014. Why did you guess "Gears of War" so often?
Answer rate: 42%
Other suggestions: 17x Gears of War, Armoured core, Halo, Hawken, Killzone, Resistance, Unreal Tournament
8.) left 4 dead 2
Answer rate: 48%
Other suggestions: Serious Sam, Back 4 Blood, Far Cry, Gears of War, Bioshock, Call of chtullu, dead island, Goblin Commander, GTFO, Killing Floor 2, Rage, The hunchback of Notre dame, The Thing, Unreal Tournament
9) Wolfenstein: The New Order
The double assault rifle combo immediately reminds me of the new Wolfensteins.
Answer rate: 54%
Other suggestions: Fallout, Resistance: Fall of Man, singularity, The Darkness
10) Dusk
Answer rate: 49%
Other suggestions: Witches, Medal of Honor, Painkiller, Blood, Clive Barker's Undying, Daikatana, Quake, SiN, Unreal
11) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
This is the CoD with Kevin Spacey as the villain.
Answer rate: 44%
Other suggestions: 5x Deus Ex, Mass Effect, Prey, Battlefield, Cyberpunk, Titanfall, Apex Legends, Bioshock Infinite, Crysis, Dead Space, Destiny.
Half Life: Alyx, Haze, Portal, Quake 4, The Persistance
12) RoboCop 3
The technically "ambitious" adaptation of a bad film for home computers (Amiga, Atari, DOS).
Answer rate: 35%
Other suggestions: The Matrix, Terminator, Siphon Filter, MIDI Maze, Killer 7, John Wick Hex, James Bond 007, Die Hard
13) Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel
Answer rate: 56%
Other suggestions: Titanfall, Bulletstorm, Mechwarrior, Metal Gundam, Project Warlock
14) Faceball 2000
Away from consoles, also known as "Midi Maze".
Answer rate: 41%
Other suggestions: Gremlins, Maze War
15) Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Controversial fps for the 3DS.
Answer rate: 49%
Other suggestions: Halo, Gundum Evolution, Overwatch, Speedball 3
16) Battle Frenzy
Released exclusively for the Mega Drive, also known as Bloodshot.
Answer rate: 28%
Other suggestions: 9x Terminator, 6x Zero Tolerance, 4x Robocop, Alien Syndrome
17) Behind the Iron Gate
The first Amiga exclusive game of this round, a cumbersome fps that is almost devoid of textures for performance reasons.
Answer rate: 18%
Other suggestions: 5x Star Wars, Mech Warrior, Alien Trilogy, Master Spy, Nuclear Blast, Starbucks, Substation, System Shock 2
18.) The Colony
The oldest game of this round (80s), here the version for the Apple Macintosh.
Answer rate: 20%
Other suggestions: Antichamber, Maze War, Sega Rally
19) Forgive me Father
A Lovecraft-inspired modern shooter with an interesting graphics style.
Answer rate: 25%
Other suggestions: 6x XIII, 6x Borderlands, Mad world, Rage 2, Red Steel, The Darkness, Walking Dead, ZPC
20) Breathless
The second Amiga exclusive game, graphically and gameplay-wise already much closer to Doom than #17.
Answer rate: 18%
Other suggestions: Star Wars Dark Forces, Rise of the Triad, Butt shooter, Marathon, Po'ed, Rebel Moon rising, Zero Tolerance
22) Red Faction
A port of Red Faction...for the Nokia N-Gage!
Answer rate: 28%
Other suggestions: Quake, C&C Renegade, Gunman Chronicle, Killzone, Marathon, Opposing Force, Robocop, Shogo: MAD, Soldier of Fortune, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
23) Forbes Corporate Warrior
A really weird first person shooter and the most difficult game of this round.
Answer rate: 13%
Other suggestions: 4x Tron, MissionX, System Shock 2, Virtual Nightmare, Virtual Reality
24) Dread
A Doom clone for home computers (Amiga & Atari) coming out next year, with phenomenally low hardware requirements (A500 with 7MhZ & 1 MB Ram). https://youtu.be/CIjSNlUS3vg?t=200
Answer rate: 17%
Other suggestions: 11x Doom, 6x Duke Nukem, 6x Wolfenstein, 4x Rise of the Triad, Gloom, Avenging Angel, Dark Forces
25) Chex Quest
It's not a waffle, it's a breakfast cereal! The game had its beginning as a promotional CD of a cereal box and was then continued several times.
Answer rate: 32%
Other suggestions: Bernd the Bread, Duke Nukem 3D, Minecraft, Birdseye potatoe waffles, The Evil Waffle, Egg Waffle Killer, Waffle Wars
Here is the quiz picture again, followed by the answers:
I'd have to say that I got about as many of them from recognizing the HUD as the actual enemies that were pictured, as a lot of them are either DLC or just pretty obscure.
As ever, there were a couple I'd played but didn't recognize too.
Once in a while, there's a bonus question where you can wish for games that will then, with a bit of luck, be used in a round like this one. From the roughly 100 entries I got in the last question, I have chosen 25 titles, one from each participating forum.
The following criteria influence the chance that a title will be chosen:
Has the game been in another quiz before? If not, then +1!
Did several users wish for the same title? If yes, then +1!
Are there good screenshots of the game that don't look like other titles? If yes, then +1!
And lastly: Does the player participate regularly? The more often, the better.
The more of the above is fulfilled, the more likely it is that your game will be in the next Make-a-Wish round.
And like last time: If you don't recognise your own wish, you lose one point!
25 screenshots, 25 forums, and 25 players, that's what it looks like right now in the make-a-wish October quiz. While every game has been guessed at least once, no one has been able to score full points... which means YOU can still win this round.
Nine people have already found "their game", but oh dear: one player didn't recognise his own wish and will get a minus point if he doesn't realise it before the end of the month!
Here come the first clues:
1) With the 4, 6, 8 and 14, there's some famous RPG series included - two from the East, two from the West. 2) Titles 17 and 20 are each set in one of the world wars. 3) Games 5 and 9 are new and only released this year. 4) This round does not show a single Amiga screenshot and only one of the games has been ported to this home computer.
@Mr_Horizon Submitted a result for the first time in what feels like forever (the last few quizzes have been on topics I'm just not very familiar with, I'M SORRY 😭). Definitely some I got wrong but I had a great time all the same (also, very good taste with No.3 is all I'm saying ).
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(...) Definitely some I got wrong but I had a great time all the same (also, very good taste with No.3 is all I'm saying ).
Glad to hear you had a good time.
But I can't take credit for "good taste" this month, all games were user wishes! You can thank the "shock²" community for number 3.
Over half of the games have already been recognised by the people who wished for them, I guess the others are still taking their time. Fifty people are playing, you have ten days left to join and still no one has full points.
Ready for the second & final clues? ^_^
1) Game 7 is a licensed title, there are also movies and comics. 2) Number 3 is an RPG with Mii characters. 3) #3 is also Nintendo exclusive, just like #10, #13 and one game from the last row. 4) Title 15 is a very japanese music game.
Nearly eighty people did already dive into the October quiz (four of them from this forum) - and time is running out, in less than 48 hours this round will be over! Well, does anyone have full points? The answer is still NO. o_O
1) The #8 is a part from a series that started in 2010 on Wii. 2) The gameplay of #9 is somewhat like Super Smash Bros. 3) Title #16 is a Soulslike. 4) Game #17 was initially just a mod of a famous fps before it became its own game.
Deadline is Monday 31st October, enter via http://www.retrogamequiz.com/, you can also update your existing entries by submitting again.
I only participate in these when I’m certain of a few of them (which is almost never), but this time I have 13 guesses, and I’m sure about 4 or 5 of them, so worth a try…
If I guessed a spin-off of the answer, does it count? I’m not 100% sure about which specific game 6 is.
Heigh Ho Heigh Ho. It’s off to work (from home) I go.
The Make-a-Wish round is over, all requested games were found out - but three players whose wishes were in the quiz didn't take part at all, boooh! All in all, the number of players was again very impressive with 127, I am happy. There was no one with full score this round, mainly due to #25. Scroll down to see what kind of game that was?
Just briefly before we start, here are the "Should there be MORE make-a-wish rounds" voting results (10% non-voters factored out):
I think we'll leave everything as it is
But now we start with the evaluation of the quiz... first the names of the games as text, then the pictures, then the high score table.
1) Kingdom Hearts 3
Wished by: LittleChoco & Mangamaniac
Answer Rate: 88%
Other suggestions: 3x Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross, Skies of arcadia
2) Stardew Valley
No game has been guessed as many times as this one!
Wished by: Zion
Solving rate: 90%
Other suggestions: Animal crossing, Harvest Moon, Legend of River King.
4) Ultima VII
Wished by: Jammet
Answer Rate: 65%
Other suggestions: Final Fantasy, Shining Force II, Tibia, Some old D'n'D game.
5) Cult of the Lamb
Wished by: hellermarie
Answer Rate: 70%
Other suggestions: Cat Quest, Deltarune, Hollow Knight, Ni no kuni, Ship of Fools.
6) Suikoden 2
Wished by: QFNS
Answer Rate: 58%
Other suggestions: 7x Dragon Quest, 3x Breath of Fire, Octopath Traveler, Chrono Trigger, Beyond Oasis, Final fantasy 6, Fire Emblem, Secret Of Mana, Terranigma
7) Predator: Concrete Jungle
Wished by: Gameproff
Answer Rate: 77%
Other suggestions: Mortal Kombat X, Halo 3, Hellboy: The Science of Evil, Mass Effect.
8.) Xenoblade Chronicles
Wished by: tharathiel
Answer Rate: 65%
Other suggestions: 4x Final Fantasy, Hitman II, Monster Hunter 3DS
9) MultiVersus
Wished by: Scorplian
Answer Rate: 62%
Other suggestions: Last Ninja, Nickelodeon All Star Brawl, Ranma 1/2.
10) Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Wished by: Addearheart
ReAnswer Rate: 70%
Other suggestions: Valkyrie Chronicles, School Girl/Zombie Hunter, Star Wars, The Last Story, Jeanne D'arc fantasy XIX.
11) The Last Ninja
Wished by: Striderblade
Answer Rate: 54%
Other suggestions: Beyond the Forbidden Forest, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja unit, Pitfall, Spider Fight.
12) Crusader: No Remorse
Wish of: DeekyFun (no show!) & teroknor
Answer Rate: 49%
Other suggestions: 6x Star Wars, 3x Fallout, Metroid, Operation: Ignition Factor, Shock Troopers, System Shock.
14) Morrowind
Very many Sci Fi titles among the wrong suggestions.
Wished by: Nobby_UK
Answer Rate: 58%
Other suggestions: 4x Mass Effect, 3x Half Life, Final Fantasy, Star Wars: Kotor, Giants Citizen Kabuto, Kenshi, sega rally, Shadow of the Collosus, Xenoblade, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.
15) Gitaroo Man
I had this on the ps2 and totally liked it.
Wish from: Don Como
Answer Rate: 32%
Other suggestions: 4x Um Jamma Lammy, 3x Jet Set Radio, Taiko no Tatsujin, Parappa the Rapper, Pop'n Music, Rhythm Heaven: Fever, The Artful Escape, ToeJam and Earl, Futurama, Half-Life 2.
16) Bloodborne
Wished by: Dream Team
Answer Rate: 40%
Other suggestions: 9x Dark Souls, 3x Elden Ring, Darkwatch, Demon's Souls, Final fantasy 14, Nioh, The Evil Within, The Witcher 2, Thymesia, Chakan.
17) Day of Defeat
Now is this the original or DoD Source? Not sure.
Wished by: 4C8en
Answer Rate: 34%
Other suggestions: 11x Counter Strike, 4x DayZ, 4x Medal of Honor, 3x Garry's Mod, Team Fortress, Battlefield 1942, Boneworks VR, Call Of Duty, Dragon Storm, Mafia, Playerunknown Battlegrounds, Rust, Stalker.
18.) Magical Puzzle Popils
Wished by: Red XIII
Solving rate: 30%
Other suggestions: 4x Bubble Bobble, Donkey Kong, Dragon Quest, Giana Sisters, Ninja Jajamaru, Princess Maker, Rainbow Islands, Solomen's Key
20) WW1 The Great War
Also known as "the Entente".
Wished by: Dark Kariya
Answer Rate: 25%
Other suggestions: 7x Medal of Homor, 5x Call of Duty, Sniper Elite, Commando, Cossacks, Front Pigs, Jagged Alliance, Quake, Red Dead Revolver, Spec Ops The Line, Wolfenstein 2009, broken lines.
21) Myth: The Fallen Lords
An early game from Halo developer Bungie.
Wished by: drauch
Answer Rate: 27%
Other suggestions: 6x Age of Empires, 4x Total War, Medieval: Total War, Ghosts and Goblins, Lords of the Realm 2, Vedelem, Warhammer: Dark Omen, Civilization
22) Big Mac the mad maintenance man
An apparently very hard to guess title for the C64.
Wished by: markopoloman (no show!)
Answer Rate: 4%
Other suggestions: 3x Montezuma's Revenge, Air Sea Battle, Amigo 64, Dig Dug, Lode Runner, Miner 49er, Passage, Rick Dangerous, Sheriff Star, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tom, H.E.R.O.
23) Again
A detective game for the Nintendo DS.
Wished by: jgkspsx
Answer Rate: 30%
Other suggestions: 4x Hotel Dusk, As Dusk Falls, Ashley and Mary Kate, Avenging Angel, Lethal Enforcers, Murder by numbers, Papers, Please.
24) Sorcer Striker / Mahou Daisakusen
A nearly 30-year-old shooter game... in the Shmups forum the answer rate was 60%, you can clearly see the specialization
Wished by: Rossyrg (no show!)
Answer Rate: 22%
Other suggestions: 3x Actraiser, Mushihime-sama, Albert Odyssey, Heroes of Might and Magic, I Call Shotgun, Kingdom Grand Prix, Secret of Evermore, Secret of Mana, Sylphia, Twinbee
25) Pondering about Max
Okay, only the person wishing for it recognised this game, no one else. An obscure title for Atari 8 bit home computers. You can buy "Pondering about Max" here, for a whopping 600€: https://www.ebay.de/itm/265913968131?hash=item3de9b52603:g:52...
Wished by: partykiller
Answer Rate: 0.8%
Other suggestions: Tapper, Adventure, Bar Fight, Double Dragon, Red, Revenge of the elder burglars, The Bard's Tale
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