Here's the round I presented to my Dungeon Zoom Quiz Crew last Saturday. We go by a new name now, which will be revealed in the comments along with the answers. Can you tell what names have been blanked out from the following extraordinary, mainly mid-eighties home computer cover art? Apologies for my lack of photoshop skills, but I don't have photoshop...
1.
a) Xanadu
b) Maria's Mushrooms
c) The Great Giana Sisters
2.
a) Wacky Waiters
b) Jet Set Willy
c) Arctic Chunder
3.
a) Attack of the Mutant Camels
b) Jeff Minter's Pyramid Orgy
c) Llamageddon!
4.
a) Moon Stalker
b) Chiller
c) Michael Jackson, the Officially Licensed Computer Game
5.
a) Drelbs
b) Goinks
c) Chwat
6.
a) Computer Game Simulator
b) Codename: Undercover
c) Hacker
7.
a) Everyone's a Wally
b) Div Street Capers
c) Bob's Nob
8.
a) Longboat Lionel
b) Thundergod 3: The Search for Socks
c) Vicky
9.
a) Romper Stomper
b) Gribbly's Day Out
c) Catch The Crabs
10.
a) Johnny Spelunker
b) Cave Bother
c) Chwat
AND FOR A BONUS POINT...
What is this game called?
AND HERE ARE THE ANSWERS (walk-throughs for all these games should be findable on youtube if you're curious)... 1:- c) "The Geat Giana Sisters". New to me. 2:- b) Matt Smith's classic memory palace "Jet Set Willy". 3:- a) Jeff Minter's "Attack of the Mutant Camels". Nearly everyone went for Llamageddon, even though these are clearly not llamas. 4:- b) "Chiller". A strange game. You play a white-washed protagonist of the video to Thriller, making your way through levels such as"Graveyard", "Cinema", and "Ghetto". Nice music. 5:- a) "Drelbs" obviously. 6:- c) "Hacker". 7:- a) "Everyone's a Wally" This is what I kearnt the lyrics to in the playground. 8:- c) "Vicky". 9:- b) "Gribbly's Day Out". 10:- c) "Chwat". This became our way of signalling we were ready for the next question for the rest of the evening – a fore-shortened thumb-up and a cry of "Chwat!" – which is how we became the Chwat Pack. BONUS QUESTION:- "Entombed".
ReplyDeleteThe only one I owned was Jet Set Willy (for Spectrum). Although I remember very little about it other than the foot-tapping housekeeper and We Must Perform a Quirkafleeg.
ReplyDeleteThe Chapel? You don't remember the Chapel? It plays a large part in "Weepie", a play be Chris Goode, who – no fool – also made a show called "We Must Perform a Quirkafleeg."
ReplyDeleteHaving googled it, I do remember the big-skull-going-up-and-down room, I had just forgotten what its official name was. I also remember the weirdly existential deaths you could have by falling through the ceiling again and again and again in the same place, unable to stop yourself.
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