In the last four decades, Nintendo has produced some of the most ubiquitous and iconic video game hardware and peripherals on the planet. Even if you don't have a stash of retro consoles and peripheral goodies tucked away somewhere, Nintendo's range of home and handheld consoles and the games and accessories that went along with them are instantly recognisable to millions of us. Any self-respecting gamer knows the ins and outs of a Super Nintendo or a Wiimote, right?
We thought we'd put your Nintendo hardware knowledge to the test (again) with this little visual quiz. Below you'll find a series of close-up shots and zoomed-in pics of famous Nintendo hardware and peripheral gadgets. There are twenty multiple choice questions to test yourself against — how many can you identify?
We'll start with an easy one...
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By Jove, I clearly spend more time playing the games that run on the system than looking at the system itself. I need to reconfigure my priorities.
Wow, some real hard ones up there. Kudos on making a very entertaining quizz
This was about as fun as filling out a google Captcha.
I was doing really well for the first half... ended with 13/20
12/20. How on earth is anyone supposed to tell the difference between a Wii and Wii U disc? Lolmao!
15/20. I'm disappointed with myself.
14/20 oh well...
In the D-pad section, shouldn’t the most recent hardware be the Switch Lite?
@Meuz I guessed at that one because the reflection in the pic was mainly blue and knowing that the discs hold 25GB I assumed they may use a blue laser without being actual Blu-Rays.
@DK-Fan No. I think that they were choosing random hardware, and the Wii U just happened to be the most recent hardware they chose.
17/20. Not bad. This was a fun quiz
The D-Pad one got me...
The d-pad, the one to select is the exact same on other older console and got fooled by that, I also forgot it existed in white.
20/20! I did it! And i only had to reload because I screwed up 31 times!
12/20. This was tough.
And 19/20 (no cheating)
Some I found by elimination (the 3d glasses thingy) I don't know if I should be worried or not
14/20. Should have taken a bit more time for the quiz. Which is brilliant, by the way! Thanks, Gavin!
13/20 for me! You sneaky lot 😉😂
14/20, really enjoyed that one. One question though- how the heck can you tell the difference between a GameCube, Wii or Wii U disc from that angle? Is there some sort of colour difference that gives it away as a Wii U disc?
The D-Pad question's wording is very misleading. The Wii U is not Nintendo's "most recently manufactured hardware." I thought maybe the intention was to pick out the Mario G&W d-pad.
@Dezzy what? Why? I think it was brilliant!
I could have SWORN that red D-Pad was from a New 3DS XL. You cheeky buggers.
Oh boy..., really for me, this was hard, 7/20
Ok, to check very close every console, controller and more.
I'm pretty used to utterly flunking these quizzes, but I really thought I'd be able to best this one.
12/20... the quiz bested me, it seems.
@Meuz That was one of the easiest ones for me. Those edges are pretty recognisable.
@Adam I interpreted that to mean which of the D-pads is most recent, but the fact that it can be misinterpreted that way is a good reason for the question to be edited for clarity.
"You scored 8 out of 20."
It was hard for me specially when I never had GameCube, Wii and Wii U.
@BulkSlash The Wii U had wonderfully smooth rounded edges on its discs as an anti-piracy measure.
Just imagining regular people giving me the side-eye as I absolute boss this quiz.
Wow, 10/20. Easily the hardest quiz I've done on this site.
Amazing how little I know about the hardware I play my games on. XD
I got off to a strong start, but I faded about halfway through. It doesn't help that I have little knowledge of N64.
The most recently manufactured hardware is the gam and watch, not the wii u. Hence, I consider my answer correctly on that one!
The last one, all the screws are the same so all answers are correct.
Well, I did a lot better than that Pokemon quiz hahah! 19. (Got the most recent d-pad wrong lol)
@__jamiie You’re disappointed? I got 7 lol.
I’ve reworded the D-pad question for clarity.
16 out of 20 here. I seriously thought that was the control pad for a Wii Remote, not the Wii U GamePad. And how was I supposed to know what that thing was in question 19?
@Taekw0ndud A lot of them were lucky guesses.
10/20. And I mapled through some of these as well.
11/20 not that great but could have been worst
Nice, 20/20. Question 15 was a total guess. I had no clue. Just did process of elimination, and hoped I was right. 1 or 2 other guesses too. I wasn't sure about them. But otherwise, I knew what the rest were. So, good times.
10/20.
Ouch.
(Seriously though, I could have sworn that that Wii U GamePad D-Pad belonged to a Wii Remote...)
11/20 . I struggled with that & actually got more than I thought I would. I find it difficult to envisage the normal views from these close ups for some reason. Ha.
@DocRompler Thanks, I never noticed that! I tended to buy most of my Wii U games digitally. I always thought a disc edge was a disc edge, regardless platform! 😅
17/20! Very fun quiz, thanks!
13/20.
Some fantastic photos. Good stuff
16/20. I need to go take a second look at my Wii remotes' D-pads.
Original NES and SNES d-pads were the best. Why? They were soft yet responsive. Membrane then vs clicky now. Rounded off corners then vs sharp edged now. Not all things get better with time...
10/20 I’ll take it. Middle of the road!
@Meuz I immediately noticed it was a Wii U disc... It helps that they're one of the only discs ever made to be immediately recognizable due to the edges.
Damn and as a Nintendo fan I thought I know these stuffs. Failed big time.
15/20. Nice challenge!
Can’t name games worth beans but I do know my hardware
12/20 for me. Fun quiz even if some of the options have little to no discernable difference lol. Definitely would like to see more!
The Dark Souls of Nintendo Life quizzes. Git gud!
9/20 tougher than I thought it'd be. I had a Black WiiU so the questions for it threw me off a bit.
13/20. Better than how I usually do on these.
First half good then I botttomed out. 11/20.
Each correct answer was a bigger lie than the first😭😠
I'm just playing. Got a 10/20. Yes, kudos to such clear hardware for the photos.
GREAT quiz! I scored 9/20.
Well, I got 14/20. Could have had 17, but I made a couple of dumb, hasty mistakes, and the other three photos were from hardware that I've either never seen or don't own (Ring-Con, Labo VR kit and Famicom 3D System glasses), so it would have been impossible for me to know.
Either way, first time in a LONG time that I dared to take one of these infernal quizzes again, and I'm satisfied and relieved with the results.
@holygeez03 Exactly the same for me lol
I’m disappointed not getting more than 10! 🤦♂️
Got 15/20, a little disappointed but I did learn some things I have never seen before, like the famicom 3d glasses and the bead clip on the PAL N64 controller cord. DPAD one got me too because I forgot my chronology for a bit and also thought the Wii U dpad was for the Wii. DeRp.
The worst ones were the region specific ones. Some of the PAL stuff doesn't look familiar to me at all, so I had no hope on those.
Plus other ones from peripheral hardware that I've never owned.
16/20 ! A few lucky guesses, mind
Bombed
You scored 6 out of 20.
14/20, Some of the region variants I got wrong and the others I got wrong because they were accessories I don't own.
13/20. This one was fun.
Very glad I got the Super Famicom cartridge correct, I take those apart all the time. This was a fun quiz!
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4/20...Not bad..for me.
12/20
should have read the questions and not just go with the pictures lol
I got 15/20, some of the obscure accessory and Japan/Pal specific questions got me.
Some of those pics reminded me of a Croenberg film
(That's my excuse for not recognising the controller ports)
11/20 the quiz i thought i would do well in is the worst i have taken
I missed the first two, saw there were 18 more, and gave up.
"Oh, this one will be easy! I know what all the Nintendo consoles are!"
Aaaand 7/20.
I will accept my 6/20 score with humble pride. I am not a details person and this proves it.
Some of them I was kicking myself for getting wrong when it was so obvious after seeing the zoomed out photo. Others I just didn’t know at all.
Fun quiz. Thanks NintendoLife.
Offfff... Only got 9.
Also, owned a gamecube from day 1 and NEVER knew that was an eject button. Always just pulled the disks out of that thing.
I got a 17 out of 20!!
...after taking the quiz once already! haha
Wow, that was tough. Jigglypuff from above-level stuff...
I thought the Wii-U D-pad was a DS-Lite D-pad...
@arekdougy Same here! I totally saw a DS lite there.
7/20 I’m too young to remember anything. I was born right before the Wii
Aahhh!! Only 14/20... x) This was a fun quiz, great pics.
I fancy myself quite knowledgeable in all things Nintendo, but I messed up with #4 the D-pads (honest mistake), #8 and #16 the controller ports (I should have got these), #9 (this was a bit obscure), #17 the styluses (so many styluses...) and #15 (I really had no idea but could've guessed by way of elimination).
13/20. There were some sneaky ones in there to be sure. Must brush up on my hardware visuals. Fun quiz.
9 out of 20 and that was with a few lucky guesses, ouch. XD
20/20, piece of cake. Next!
This was really novel and inventive. And difficult! 12/20
Should have done better... But I guess I will take 15 out of 20... Stupid other regions.... 'Merica!
8/20 Considering the nature of the quiz, I'm okay with that.
6/20. Only got N64 questions right. I played that thing soooooo much. Just moved out of home. Beer, bongs, and N64. Best console ever.
Started off well, getting the first 7 correct, but then ruined that streak by getting only 3 out of the remaining 13 somehow, leading to an overall score of 10/20.
Yes, with the D-Pad, it was hard to tell what console it was. Could've been a Wii remote as far as I could tell.
@Meuz Simple, Wii U disc edges are rounded.
4/20
Some of them I thought I’d no but be surprised when I was wrong.
11/20. Not bad since a lot of them were dart board guesses.
Some of these are very unfair to anyone living in the united states. Like how the f*** am I supposed to know what a super famicom game cartridge looks like?? Quiz sucks.
I got 8. Just terrible!
10/20 😠 not cool. Those pics are hard to tell some how.
I got 15 but 1 I just took a shot in the dark. Others were either I knew or didn't know but did a process of elimination (like the joy ring as I don't own it)
This was serieus the hardest quiz ever.
That was really fun. I got 14/20. Would love to see more quizzes like this
@Meuz smooth edges on wiiu disk.
I got 16 and was disappointed in myself but reading the comments I think I did well. I had to think really hard about the d pad one! Ds and wiiu. I thought the ds was a 3ds at first. And who’s got a white wiiu?
A very decent 15. I feel... exactly the same as before. Slightly more entertained though, so thanks.
13 out of 20. There were definitely some tricky ones.
15 out of 20. Coulda done better if I thought harder about some. A few were like "Aw! I knew that!" when I guessed wrong. Fun quiz!
@BloodNinja Haha same. That screw question was made for me, i'm always taking those buggers apart
14. This quiz was hard! But it was super fun, keep doing really specific ones like these. They're great! 😁
I still have all the hardware listed in this quiz (except those 3D glasses) and still only got 10/20. I didn't particularly enjoy the quiz if only because I don't understand why zoomed-in pictures make it fun.
Fun little quiz. I scored three. Woohoo!
@SolidSnake684 It’s fun seeing what makes these things tick!
16/20, that D-Pad question was tricky!
Best quiz in a while!
Only got 12 ^^
N64 one wasn't fiar tbh, nore was fammicom 3d glasses I've never even seen them lmayo.
for N64 im not EU, so never seen it before, also missread the question so yeah... for the fammicom 3d one I guessed it and got wrong, even looking back could of gotten it 50/50 if i didnt put OG DS on it.
The last one I never owned a SFC but its a easy guess if you know what NES and N64 look like, 50/50 pass fail but the 2 pics you pick from make it hard lol
9 out of 20, okay that was really bad. But I wasn't really focused.
3/20 - I know my stuff
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