QUIZ: This Nostalgic Video Game Quiz Will Test You on Everything From Pac-Man to Sonic!

The Nintendo DS was released between 2004 and 2005. And it made gamers very happy because it was a sophisticated handheld device that provided up to 19 hours of gameplay on one charge.

In the original Nintendo game, “Legend of Zelda,” Link had to rescue Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon by first locating eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom. Along the way, he had to use his trusty sword to vanquish all sorts of nasty creatures.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade started in 1924, but it wasn’t until 1993 that Sonic the Hedgehog was featured as a balloon for Sega of America to promote its upcoming release of the video game.

Coco Bandicoot is Crash’s little sister. Doctor Neo Cortex and Doctor Nitrus Brio genetically engineered her using their Evolvo-Ray, which is also how Crash was made.

A man named Gunpei Yokoi worked as a janitor and an assembly line worker at Nintendo. Eventually, he became a game developer within the company and he ultimately came up with the first idea of the Game Boy.

Toru Iwatani, the man who created Pac-Man, was eating a pizza when he suddenly came up with the idea. But that origin story definitely doesn’t explain how the ghosts in the game tie into eating pizza.

In the arcade version of Donkey Kong, the character we fondly know as Mario was called Jump Man. Eventually, the character got his own game spin-off, so to speak, and Jump Man became Super Mario.

Nina Williams made her debut in the original Tekken and has been a part of every version of the game. The character is described as a cold-blooded assassin with deadly fighting skills.

The founder of the kid’s dining franchise, Chuck E. Cheese, was also responsible for the creation of the Atari, a game console that entertained thousands before the first Nintendo game system arrived on the market.

Doom was a first-person game that was first released back in 1993 and involved shooting bad guys. It was bloody. Then in 2016, the game was rebooted and continued to offer the same gory elements that gamers loved from the original.

Super Mario 64 made its debut in 1996. It was the final Super Mario game released by Nintendo in the 1990s. Fortunately, Super Mario fans rejoiced in 2002 when another new game was released.

The episodic series about Sam, a six-foot-tall dog investigator, and Max, his weirdly unique rabbit sidekick, was created by Steve Purcell and developed as a graphic adventure video game by LucasArts.

It was actually Vincent Valentine who was a playable character in the franchise, more specifically, in "Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII." Vincent is a Turk whose job is to defend Lucrecia Crescent, a Shinra scientist. Vincent ends up falling in love with her.

Pong was the first video game to be successful commercially. In 1972, the first prototype of the game was placed in a bar in Sunnyvale. Thanks to its simplicity and how easy it was to learn the rules, the game was a major success.

Super Mario, the little guy with the thick mustache, became the most popular character with American kids in the '90s according to ´Q´ ratings.

Minecraft, along with GTA, have been at the forefront of the bestselling games of all time. Released by Mojang Studios, the sandbox video game known as Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time. They currently boast over 200,000,000 copies sold plus over 120 million current users.

Behind the scenes, the Sony/Nintendo partnership was not working out. So the day after Sony made its announcement, Nintendo let the world know they were dropping Sony and were now working exclusively with Phillips. Eventually, Sony went solo and came up with their own video game console, the Sony PlayStation, which was a major success.

This patch allowed users to access a NSFW mini game that game developers didn't want players to access. As you can imagine, this created an uproar in the media and some retailers even pulled the game from shelves.

In November of 2020, Nintendo released a historical compilation that included 3 collectible games: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, and Ball.

Satoshi spends his days collecting bugs, so he figured other people would have a blast collecting things too. With this simple idea in mind, he came up with a video game idea called Capsule Monsters, in which users could collect and share different creatures.

The video game series was designed by John Carmack, Tom Hall, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, and Kevin Cloud and was released on December 10, 1993. The next year, Doom II: Hell on Earth was released.

With a whopping 157.68 million units sold around the world, the PlayStation 2 is the best-selling game system ever.

The iconic duo of Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield are the lead characters of the uber popular game Resident Evil. Leon and Claire survived a biohazard attack in Raccoon City.

The first Pokémon game, which came in both red and green versions, was released in Japan on February 27, 1996. In 2021, Pokémon celebrated their 25th anniversary of games, cards and entertainment.

The first game of the Spyro series, Spyro the Dragon, was released in 1998 for the PlayStation console. The original game was a huge success and went on to sell over five million copies worldwide.

The original Tomb Raider game was released in 1996 and it was such a huge success that it lead to a feature film titled “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” which starred Angelina Jolie in the lead role.

The Sims characters were only added into original versions of the would-be architecture simulator to add more realism to the designs. The game was later retooled and released for Microsoft Windows in 2000.

In 2007, Aerosmith licensed 29 of their songs to the video game publisher Activision and their game Guitar Hero: Aerosmith went on to sell over 4 million copies. In contrast, Aerosmith’s 2004 album “Honkin’ on Bobo” only sold about 160,000 copies.

Rad Mobile was released in arcades in February of 1991, just five months before the first Sonic the Hedgehog game would be released. Sonic appears as an ornament hanging from the driver’s rearview mirror.

Spacewar! is often referred to as the first video game because it was developed in the early ‘60s. The game took inspiration from science fiction and space travel and it became very popular in the computer programming community of the time.

“Warcraft” was released in 2016 and was based on the popular game series “World of Warcraft.” The film grossed $439 million at the box office and “Detective Pikachu comes in a close second in this list, having grossed $433 million.

The team behind Doom first started developing the original game in 1992 and they found inspiration from the 1986 movie “Aliens” and the 1987 horror film “Evil Dead II.”

Pac-Man was originally released in 1980, making 2010 the 30th anniversary of the iconic game. Google brought their playable version back to their site in 2020 because of its popularity.

In 2013, the site Twitch had over 45 million unique viewers and by 2014, it was considered the fourth largest source of internet traffic in the United States.

In 2000, Nintendo received complaints from parents whose children had suffered blisters and burns while playing Mario Party. The parents later filed a lawsuit and Nintendo offered free gaming gloves to all Mario Party owners who requested them.

The Dreamcast sold millions of units, but that wasn’t enough to save the SEGA gaming company, who just couldn’t compete with the incredible sales of both Nintendo and Sony. Some games for the Dreamcast included Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio and Shenmue.

Yoshi first debuted in the game Super Mario World, which was released in 1990. The popular character went on to star in its own games in including Yoshi’s Island, Yoshi’s Story and Yoshi’s Crafted World.

The first Resident Evil game was released in 1996 and reawakened gamers’ love for fighting zombies. The series is gaming company Capcom’s best selling video game franchise and has sold over 105 million units.

The Nintendo company was founded in 1889 and the company produced playing cards and toys before they ventured into video games in the ‘70s. Nintendo distributed their first video game console, the Color TV-Game in Japan in 1977.

Bomberman was a strategic maze game that was released in Japan in 1985. The most recent version of the game, Super Bomberman R Online, was released on September 1, 2020 on the platform Stadia.