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Video Games Trivia Quiz
Press Start Famous games explained very badly, plus the heroes, hits and big moments every player knows. Press start.
230 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Video Games Trivia Quiz has 230 questions: 81 easy, 92 medium and 57 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 230 Video games questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Explained badly: a kid caught spraying paint on a train runs away along the tracks forever, while a grumpy guard and his dog give chase.
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Subway Surfers
It became the first game on the Google Play Store to pass one billion downloads.
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Explained badly: you build a cosy little village, then send barbarians to smash up strangers' villages while they sleep.
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Clash of Clans
It became the base of Finland's Supercell, which built hits like Clash Royale on top of it.
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Explained badly: you swap sweets around to make rows of three, then beg your friends online for extra lives.
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Candy Crush Saga
By 2023 it had earned over $20 billion, one of the biggest money-makers in all of entertainment.
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Sonic's red-and-white shoes were inspired by the boots of which pop star?
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Michael Jackson
The boots came from the cover of Jackson's album Bad, and Sonic's blue matched Sega's logo.
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Which crime series began life as Race'n'Chase, a dull game where you played a police officer chasing criminals?
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Grand Theft Auto
The team flipped it so you play the criminal instead, and the first game came out in 1997.
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Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A: a developer added this cheat because he found his own game too hard to test. What is it called?
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Konami Code
Kazuhisa Hashimoto made it for Gradius, and in Contra it famously gave players 30 lives.
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Fans have got which 1993 shooter running on graphing calculators, pianos and smart thermostats, making 'it runs on anything' a running internet joke?
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Doom
In 2011 a YouTuber showed it running on a graphing calculator, and the challenge never stopped.
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Explained badly: a boy wakes up from a 100-year nap wearing almost nothing, and decides the best plan is to climb everything in sight.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
It launched alongside the first Switch on 3 March 2017, and was also Nintendo's last game for the Wii U.
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Explained badly: a photography student finds out she can rewind time, and mostly uses it to fix awkward conversations.
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Life Is Strange
French studio Dontnod released it in five episodes across 2015.
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Explained badly: you move to a desert island, and a raccoon hands you a home loan before you've even unpacked.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
It came out just as 2020's lockdowns began, and people held real weddings and graduations on their islands.
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Explained badly: a dad searches a snowy mountain hamlet for his kidnapped baby daughter and runs into a very, very tall vampire lady.
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Resident Evil Village
The vampire, Lady Dimitrescu, went viral before launch and became a huge source of fan art and memes.
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Explained badly: five friends try to plant a bomb, but one of them can throw up walls of ice and bring teammates back to life.
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Valorant
Riot Games built it as a free hero twist on Counter-Strike, with characters called Agents.
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Explained badly: a ninja loses an arm, gets a new one with an axe built in, and keeps coming back to life just to die again.
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Sekiro
FromSoftware's samurai game won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2019.
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In Pac-Man, the red ghost chases you directly. Which ghost, whose Japanese name means 'ambush', aims for the spot just ahead of you?
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Pinky
Each of the four ghosts has its own personality, which is why they never move as a single pack.
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Explained badly: a little square jumps over spikes in time to the music, and one touch sends it right back to the start.
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Geometry Dash
Fans waited almost seven years after the 2.1 update for version 2.2, which finally landed in December 2023.
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Explained badly: a man takes a summer job watching for forest fires, and his only friend is a voice on a walkie-talkie.
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Firewatch
The voice belongs to his boss Delilah, and the whole game is set in Wyoming's Shoshone forest.
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Explained badly: a spiky-haired ex-soldier with a giant sword is hired by eco-rebels, and the story is so long that the first part never leaves one city.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake
It is the first of three games remaking the 1997 classic, and it all takes place in the city of Midgar.
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Explained badly: a space miner touches a strange rock and ends up exploring over a thousand planets, picking up every loose object in sight.
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Starfield
It was Bethesda's first brand-new world in 25 years.
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Explained badly: you're a tiny cell in a petri dish, eating smaller players while bigger ones try to eat you.
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Agar.io
A Brazilian developer made it, naming it after agar, the jelly scientists use to grow bacteria.
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Explained badly: a tiny robot's spaceship, shaped like a PS5, breaks apart, and he must find his whole crew across the galaxy.
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Astro Bot
Many of the lost bots are dressed up as famous heroes from PlayStation's history.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Video Games Trivia Quiz?
230. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
Can I play the Video Games Trivia Quiz with friends online?
Yes. Start a room with this quiz, share the room code or link, and 2 to 12 players join from the Braggit app or any browser. You can also play it solo.
Is the Video Games Trivia Quiz free?
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Do I have to spell the answers exactly?
No. You type your answers, and Braggit accepts close spellings, so a small typo still scores.
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