JECHT
Round 5 – ChocolateIsland
Tossups
1) One trick in this game involves entering an inn with less gold than the innkeeper would normally charge resulting in him letting you stay for free. A scene in this game involves a female character getting angry that the game’s protagonist left for the town of Sheran without first trying her cinnamon pies while another scene features the title character forgiving a young boy named Lou for stealing her money because she knew ‘he had some reason to steal’. Along the journey, the party meets up with the hulking soldier Aguro who helps to defeat some Demon Lords and the half-elven guide of the LostForest and powerful magic user, Jerin. The protagonist of this game is a descendant of the legendary hero, Maxim and must travel to the floating Fortress of Doom in order to stop the four major villains: Daos, Erim, Amon and Gades. FTP, identify this 1993 RPG by Taito for the SNES that involves a party of heroes attempting to defeat the all-powerful Sinistrals and is named after the protagonist’s female counterpart.
ANSWER: Lufia and the Fortress of Doom
2) If the player kicks a can behind the counter of the Jetlag Bakery in this game, they will be rewarded with a bonus 1000 of the game’s currency while other ways to make money include performing on game shows such as Beast Hunter and Balloon Fantasy. The end of the game has the protagonist stumbling upon the Motherlode and awakening a character named Juno who wishes to exterminate the ‘carbons’ while other important characters include the mayor, Emilia who is a former friend of the title character’s foster father, Barrel. Enemies in this game include the flying aircraft Gesellschaft, the digging robot Marlwolf and forty Lego-man ripoffs called Servbots all which were built by Tron Bonne. Chronicling the title Digger’s adventures on KatelloxIsland, FTP, identify this underrated adventure game in which a helmet-less Megaman Vollnutt appears in 3D for the first time.
ANSWER: Megaman Legends (or Megaman 64)
3) By placing three gem colored effigies under pictures of the Scholar, the Sorcerer and the Warrior in this game, it will unlock a secret staircase leading to a secret weapon, the Enchanted Gladius. Playable characters in this game include a Franciscan monk who is blamed for the death of his brother while on pilgrimage to the Hand of Jude while another is a slave girl of Suryavarman II who is killed and then kept alive by a dark god. The main villain of the game is a Roman centurion named Pious who was converted into a lich by the aforementioned dark god who is called Mantorok. One of the most unique features of this game is the fact that at certain points the walls and ceilings may bleed, the controller functionality may die or the game may shut off temporarily – all events dictated by a falling Sanity Meter. Developed by Silicon Knights, FTP, identify this 2002 survival horror game for the Nintendo Gamecube, where Alexandra Roivas relives the lives of several people throughout history after reading the game’s namesake tome whose name suggests perpetual night.
ANSWER: Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
4) After defeating a magician-themed boss who attacks using doves and by whirling like a cyclone, the player unlocks the overhead shoot-em-up minigame, Pure White Giant Glastonbury. Other bosses in this game include a 76-year old feminist whose shopping cart transforms into a laser cannon and a Swedish model with a prosthetic missile launcher leg. This game has a prominent tiger motif as evidenced by trading cards featuring the wrestlers Sangre Tigre and Loco Tigre, a small pixilated tiger in the right hand corner of the screen and the name of the protagonist’s motorcycle, Schpeltiger. The game begins when the main character while on his way to buy video games, kills a criminal named Helter Skelter with a beam katana he won in an online auction. Named after an in-game motel and main character’s place of residence, FTP, identify this 2008 Wii game that features 27-year-old otaku, Travis Touchdown in his life as a hitman.
ANSWER:No More Heroes
5) After saving a petrified Leonardo da Vinci, this character is given permission to use both da Vinci’s flying machine and his katana. In another stage, this character defeats a giant scorpion monster, rents a camel and runs into a pizza man riding a red turtle with an order for Cleopatra. In another game, this character travels to the village of Bellacola where he may be asked by the fishing master, Hook if his name is Nester. This character deciphered the dolphin language shortly after obtaining the NAV-COM controlled vehicle, Sub-C and a yo-yo from the chief of C Island. This characters goal in both games is to stop the alien overlord and ‘Prime Invader’, Zoda. A star pitcher from Seattle, FTP, identify this nephew of archaeologist Dr. Steven Jones and the protagonist of the 1990 NES game, StarTropics.
ANSWER: Mike Jones
6) In the vehicle select screen for this game, by holding down all of the view buttons and selecting anything but the Ferrari Testarossa, players can select from hidden vehicles such as a school bus or a Chevy Caprice police car. After beating the arcade version of this game, the player is greeted by a hick-like parody of Bill Clinton and the White House can be seen with cows and tractors on the roof. This game was the first N64 Virtual Console game to be released by a third party developer and in that version all references to former sponsor, Corn Pops have been removed from the Golden GatePark stage. Many of the courses in this game are geographically inaccurate such as the Gateway Arch appearing in the Iowa stage and Mount Rushmore appearing in the Grand Canyon course. Followed up by the sequels Exotica and World, FTP, identify this 1994 arcade racing game from Midway and Nintendo that allows players to perform the title action on a number of United States highways.
ANSWER: Cruis’n USA
7) If this character is spoken to forty-five minutes after he appears, it is possible to a see a mole named Don flying around in the background. In another game, a trading sidequest to obtain the Golden Axe sometimes has Wendell giving you a Country-style Guitar instead of a Turban which can be traded to this character for his photograph. This character regularlygives players an item called an Aircheck which can be used to play reprises of such songs as “Only Me” or “Two Days Ago”. Other songs include his namesake CafT and Country pieces which are actually remixes from Earthbound and Mario Kart 64, respectively. In the second game this character appears in, he can be found in the museum café and in the first game he is located near the train station. Often appearing at 8:00 on Saturday nights, FTP, identify this traveling guitar-playing white dog from the Animal Crossing series.
ANSWER: K. K. Slider or Totakeke
8) A Japan-only sequel to this game was released for the PS2 and featured Gabo, a 20-centimeter tall version of a Peking Man. The title characters of this game were apparently created by Thoth during Egypt’s third dynasty and were first researched by Jean-Paul Gasse after finding mutated bone fragments along the sides of the Nile. The title creatures begin life as parasitic Mushroomers that feed on a host Nautilus until they grow to the next stage, which kill each other until only one mating pair remains. The final stage of this game is the Frogman which can maneuver between land and water and speak to the player in full sentences using its eerie man-face. Narrated by Leonard Nimoy, FTP, identify this Dreamcast game that was bundled with an advanced microphone in which you attempt to raise the titular sentient aquatic beings.
ANSWER: Seaman
9) In early appearances of this character, he was often impaled by an arrow of unknown origin and was often seen talking to an imaginary winged bottle of vodka. He once responded to an offer of $5000 to stop seeing his own girlfriend by punching the dealmaker in the face and another episode involved him buying a scorpion which he named after the Mortal Kombat character. He has been the successful founder of his own religion which prays to such gods as “He who headshots most precisely” and is the inventor of the gaming holiday, Winter-een-mas. Currently, he works at a GameStop with the annoying Counter-Strike obsessed Rob and lives with his fiancée, Lilah. The creator of Zeke the X-bot, FTP, identify this wacky main character and best friend of Lucas from Tim Buckley’s webcomic, Ctrl-Alt-Del.
ANSWER: Ethan MacManus
10) One character from this nation is the first boss in the game Bad Dudes although he originally starred in his own 1984 arcade game by Data East. Another character from this nation shows up at the third Dead or Alive World Tournament after being the target of a failed assassination and wishes to gain revenge against his employer, Donovan. Another character claiming ancestry from this nation is a robotic owl named Clockwerk and is the chief antagonist of the Sly Cooper series. Along with his prototype and Gun versions, a robotic warrior named Jack that competes in the Tekken tournaments was also manufactured in this nation, while in the US version of Punch-Out the champion of this nation had his name changed to “Soda” to avoid alcoholic connotations. FTP, identify this nation, the birthplace of Zangief of Street Fighter fame and also the location of the Dam and Bunker stages in Goldeneye.
ANSWER: Russiaor Soviet Union
11) In a trailer for the most recent game he appears in, he can be seen standing over a woman addressing that “someone is not supposed to be here” and that they “should forget all this”. This character can be seen on a monitor standing on the opposite side of a fence before walking away and can be seen on an Osprey after the player defeats a beaked and tentacled worm. After the player defeats the ruler of Xen, this character claims the protagonist has ‘limitlesssss potential” and offers him a job; the refusal of which results in a horde of aliens barging in and the screen turning black. Using a clipping code in the first game reveals that this character is carrying three pencils, two sheets of paper, a 9 millimeter and a laptop in his iconic briefcase which bears the logo of Black Mesa. FTP, identify this enigmatic god-like figure of the Half-life series, so named due to his resemblance to a government worker.
ANSWER: The G-Man
12) In the seventh mission of a game this character appears in, a glitch can be performed by pushing him off of an energy bridge resulting in two identical versions of him. His first combat mission involved stopping an uprising located in an abandoned gas mining facility while accompanied by Rtas ‘Vadumee. Because he took the last departing flight from the Crow’s Nest, this character was late during the Battle of Voi in which he helped quell a parasitic infestation of the African continent. This character was demoted to his current position after the destruction of Installation 04 caused by a Spartan soldier by the name of John-117. Formerly the Elite Supreme Commander of the Covenant, FTP, identify this shamed Sangheili alien who joined Master Chief as a playable character in Halo 2.
ANSWER: The Arbiter
13) In one game, a rotund and spectacled one of these creatures named Kent blocks the passage to Pleasant Path while in another game one named Pete has a crush on ‘the shortie by the watering hole’, a manager named Jolene. Another one of these creatures is responsible for creating the evil living cake that was commissioned for the wedding of Booster in Marrymore. In a different game, upon being defeated they relinquish a blue coin and the give the protagonist the ability to become invincible by surfing on their remains. In that same game, these creatures often challenge the protagonist to footraces across such stages as Tiny-HugeIsland and Bob-omb Battlefield. Blue versions of these creatures can grant wings upon being eaten while yellow ones grant the ability for Yoshi to create mini-earthquakes. First appearing in red and green varieties, FTP, identify these ubiquitous turtle-like creatures usually found under the command of Bowser in the Super Mario universe.
ANSWER: Koopa Troopas
14) An easter egg in the arcade version of this game involved each playing choosing a character that had the ability to roll into a ball, and simultaneously performing that move three times resulting in the appearance of a bowling mini-game. The cancelled sequel to this game was supposedly suppose to introduce a boss character that appeared as a skeletal dragon named Necrosan and would feature an avatar corresponding to each of the playable characters from the first game. One playable character from this game is a blue creature based on a king cobra and uses attacks using poisonous saliva and pink energy rings while another is a God of Decay who appears as a giant ape who attacks by vomiting and possesses a move that was censored with a black screen in the SNES version, the Golden Shower finishing move. Depicting the battle of the Virtuous and Destructive gods of Urth, FTP, identify this fighting game by Atari Computing in which dinosaurs such as Talon and Sauron duke it out.
ANSWER: Primal Rage
15) One task in this game is collecting the Queens in a deck of cards so that a character can build a card house to reach a girl in the sky while in another area after defeating a boss who calls out his attacks before doing them, Kochamara, you obtain the ability to travel between two islands via Lungfish. One character in this game is Benny who despite his giant ears is nicknamed “The Nose” and is the sidekick of the bully Bobby Zilch who has a crush on a girl who believes she is from outer space, Chloe. An important location in this game is the Thorny Towers Home for the Disturbed that houses the paranoid security guard Boyd and the bipolar senior citizen Gloria. Starring a 10 year old boy named Razputin, FTP, identify this 2005 platformer from LucasArts that has the player entering the minds of campers at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp.
ANSWER: Psychonauts
16 [CR]Martin Holan investigates a project initiated by this figure in Nibiru: Age of Secrets, while men under his direction are the primary antagonists in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. He employs zombie dragons as the primary foe in Operation Darkness, and is rendered as “Master-D” in Bionic Commando, which centers on attempts to resurrect him. Albert Einstein shakes this man hand after leaving Trinity Site in Red Alert, initiating the Command and Conquer storyline. while in the adventure game Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you can choose to punch this figure instead of having him sign your book, as in the film. FTP, identify this man whose efforts are opposed by the player in Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, and Battlefield 1942, a man who advocated lebensraum, ordered the Night of the Long Knives, and went and started World War II.
ANSWER: Adolf Hitler
17) One of these entities can be found by searching in circular stone formations while another of them drops a Pound Cube before the players must chase it into a pillared ruins area. In addition to Smog and Cannon, other creatures of this type include Tonic who appears in an ice cavern after defeating a boss called Toadonpa and Breeze, one that is found on the upper branches of the tree spirit, Tret. The first one of these found is named Flint and can be found wandering around on the world map after leaving Vale. By unleashing these creatures in battle, their powers can be combined to summon even greater beings such as Atalanta, Charon and Judgement. Taking their names from Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter, FTP, identify these elemental beings that lend their power to the characters in the Golden Sun series that take their name from spirits in Arabic folklore.
ANSWER: Djinn
18) In Team Fortress 2, it names a taunt of the Pyro class with a slow charge time but the potential to produce a one-hit kill while in Tales of Symphonia, Regal uses an ability of this name to free he and his friends from prison. Magma Dragoon, a boss fromMegaman X4 is able utilize this ability while in the first Megaman X game, X himself is able to use it after obtaining all of the energy tanks and finding a secret capsule in Armored Armadillo’s stage. In the Final Fantasy based webcomic, 8-Bit Theatre, it is a powerful Level 9 spell fueled by ‘love’ used by Black Mage who also has utilized a ‘Fighter’ variation of this move. In addition to its original users, this move has been taught to the young girl Sakura and a weak version of it can be used by Dan Hibiki. Usually performed by pressing quarter-circle-forward and punch, FTP, identify this ‘wave motion fist’ or fireball attack first utilized by Ken and Ryu of the Street Fighter series.