Retro gaming fans quiz

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Jul 4, 2003

55,740

Back in Sussex

• Oct 10, 2014

• #1

How many did you get right?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/quiz/2014/oct/10/video-retro-games-arcade-classics-quiz

Me: 9/10. Disappointing.

 

CPFC G

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Dec 24, 2011

1,067

• Oct 10, 2014

• #2

8 out of a possible 10


You've clearly played a lot of classic games, but at the same time didn't waste your WHOLE youth feeding 10p pieces into machines.

What was the pacman answer at the end? I had to guess.

 

dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013

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Burgess Hill

• Oct 10, 2014

• #3

4. About right, was usually on the pool table instead.

 

CheeseRolls

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Jan 27, 2009

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Shoreham Beach

• Oct 10, 2014

• #4

8 here, probably distracted by fruit machines and pinball

 

Mackenzie

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Nov 7, 2003

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East Wales

• Oct 10, 2014

• #5

8/10.....slightly disappointed given that I virtually lived on the pier and in West Street as a kid.

 

hans kraay fan club

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Mar 16, 2005

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Chandlers Ford

• Oct 10, 2014

• #6

7/10

Got 5,7,9 wrong

 

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willow147

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Romney Marsh, Kent

• Oct 10, 2014

• #7

9 out of 10, just got the pac man one wrong.

 

CheeseRolls

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Shoreham Beach

• Oct 10, 2014

• #8

hans kraay fan club said:

7/10

Got 5,7,9 wrong

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7 will be a blind spot for many on here. I certainly never played it, even if I was happy to go into the Crystal Rooms and onto the Palace Pier

 

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP

Jul 5, 2003

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Location Location

• Oct 10, 2014

• #9

8 out of 10
Failed on the pac-man and sports one - tricky.

 

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marshy68

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Jul 10, 2011

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Brighton

• Oct 10, 2014

• #10

6/10 - quite pleased really spent my childhood playing footy in the park with the white dog turds.

 

Grombleton

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Dec 31, 2011

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• Oct 10, 2014

• #11

7/10. Came unstuck on 1, 5 and 9. Not too bad, considering i've hardly played many of them. I'm a tad young.

 

carteater

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Jan 1, 2014

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West Sussex

• Oct 10, 2014

• #12

4/10 got 1,3,4 and 7 correct, pretty good considering i wasn't alive when any of these games came out

 

Goldstone1976

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• Oct 10, 2014

• #13

Ummm.

I "knew" the titles of three. But only scored 2/10.

 

brakespear

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Feb 24, 2009

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Sleeping on the roof

• Oct 10, 2014

• #14

got the last one wrong. Never heard of it, hated Pac Man at the time (because I was terrible at it ). So 9/10, not exactly obscure questions though.

 

W.C.

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Oct 31, 2011

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• Oct 10, 2014

• #15

8/10

Got the the Q-bert one wrong which didn't surprise me, but TRACK AND FIELD!? I don't think I've ever played any other arcade game as much as I did that one, and I put Hyper Sports in. Doh.

 

edna krabappel

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Jul 7, 2003

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• Oct 10, 2014

• #16

I got 5.

Guessed nearly all of them. But I am only a GIRL.

 

Beach Hut

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Jul 5, 2003

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Living In a Box

• Oct 10, 2014

• #17

4/10 Poor

 

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Bad Ash

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Jul 18, 2003

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Housewares

• Oct 10, 2014

• #18

I'd say those games were a couple of years before my time (age 34), so 8/10 isn't bad. Should have had Chuckie Egg in there.

 

The Sock of Poskett

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Jun 12, 2009

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• Oct 10, 2014

• #19

3/10 I knew Galaxian and had a guess at the rest

 

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emphyrian

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May 25, 2004

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Woodingdean

• Oct 10, 2014

• #20

9/10 just question 7 wrong