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I was playing Disney Trivial Pursuit with a few friends the other day and I thought "Wouldn't it be great to have a gaming version?" so... I'm making one.

The categories are:- People and places, general knowledge, Celebrity involvement, history, sports and a picture category.

Would anyone like to donate some questions? Normal games have 5000.... That's a lot.

Which tactic employed in Call of Duty by an opposing team results in small, yet well timed, bouts of temporary levitation?

a) Air Strike
b) Martyr
c) Noob Tube
d) Kangaroo Defence

There. That should start you off.

People and Places:
In Papers, Please, you work as an immigration officer in which fictional dystopian country?

a) Obristan
b) Kolechia
c) Cobrastan
d) Arstotzka

It's not multiple choice by the way, bit good question... What's the answer?

I've never played it.

D. The first two answers are also countries in that region. Cobrastan was made up by someone trying to get in with an obviously fake passport.

Use places , planets and major characters from games (e.g. what is the name of the continent where the game Skyrim is set / what is the first name of the main protagonist in the Halo series / what planet is the settings for the Borderlands games)



Thats a difficult one I think to come up with specific questions for but I suppose there are plenty of general gaming questions about the systems / infrastructure that you could ask (what does XBLA stand for / on the PS3 controller what symbol is in the same position as the X button on the 360 controller / how many points did Minecraft cost when it was first released on the Xbox 360)



Voices are the obvious one for this (go to any actors IMDB page and pull games stuff - who voiced the Joker in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City / Who voiced Batman in those games / who voiced Batman in Arkham Origins + Joel in The Last of us / What links Halo Reach and Firefly)



Anything historic pick some of my posts about the Atari / Chinnys posts about the Amstrad / or anything about old consoles



Who was the football star on the front cover of Madden 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / etc / Fifa 2000 / 20001 / etc

Name the Amrican football star who launched a Megadrive game which came out before Madden



Name the game (from a character shot or an equipment page) or more generic stuff on identifying the game from the cover (with the words blotted out) or even name the game system from a box corner (most systems have very distinct colours and patterns)

All good tips there Zaphod, much appreciated.. So got any questions? (with answers please!)

You mean they were not blatantly obvious :-) ?

Name the Amrican football star who launched a Megadrive game which came out before Madden
Joe Montanna

Who voiced the Joker in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City /
Mark Hamil

Who voiced Batman in those games / who voiced Batman in Arkham Origins + Joel in The Last of us
Kevin Conroy / Troy Baker

What links Halo Reach and Firefly
Nathan Fillion (he played Captain Reynolds in both Firefly and Halo3 / and then some other character in Reach and ODST)

what does XBLA stand for
XBox Live Arcade

on the PS3 controller what symbol is in the same position as the X button on the 360 controller
Square
(From top clockwise Xbox is Y / B / A / X - PS3 is Triangle / Circle / X / Square)

how many points did Minecraft cost when it was first released on the Xbox 360
1600

what is the name of the continent where the game Skyrim is set
Tamriel

what is the first name of the main protagonist in the Halo series
John

what planet is the settings for the Borderlands games
Pandora

In Gears of War, who is Marcus' Love Interest?
Dom.

Trust.

What gun was bound to the '5' key by default in Quake 2?


What was the name of the terrorist organisation lead by Barret Wallace in Final Fantasy Seven?


What is Solid Snake's real forename?


Which character turned into a Lion in the Bloody Roar series?


What is the name of the starting room of Jet Set Willy?

Brilliant! I'm adding them all! Keep em coming....

Pst. I wouldn't add mine.

Nah, I've played it and I know that it's true.

Grim's question above about Metal Gear Solid reminds me of this from Reddit the other day

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments ... racter_is/

You could also try some Maths or number based ones in singles or multipart :

In numerical order starting at Call of Duty what number would 2013's Call of Duty : Ghosts be ?
(10)

What do you get if you add together the number of Mass Effect games (on consoles) to the number of Gears of war games (on console)
(3+4 so 7 - some people may think only 3 GOW games since the 4th was GOW Judgement instead of 4)

How many map packs were released for Call of Duty : World at War (or pick any other COD since then - they have all had 4 packs released)
(4)

In Call of Duty Zombies by what number is the element know that both powers your special weapons and caused the original zombie outbreak
(115)

A bonus Zombies question :

In Call of Duty : Black ops , when you finish the game and the final credits finish -what happens ?

(Answer it starts Zombies mode on the map 'Five' - without a code you had to complete the game to unlock that map)

What is Zaphod79 favourite game series?
Call of Duty.

Correct - however I dont think I'd expect TheVision's players to know that

What is the most important accessory for gaming?
A spreadsheet.

Ohh a whole catagory :

How many individual lines are there in TheVision's gaming spreadsheet
What is the highest amount paid for a game in TheVision's gaming spreadsheet
What single title or game series appears the most times in TheVision's gaming spreadsheet

Or to put it another way: How many times has TheVision bought a duplicate game like a berk because of inadequate prepurchase spreadsheet checking.

1384
£99.99
Doom (5 times)

As a general tip, try to go for actual questions people would expect to see in such a game and not the kind of thing that just proves how much obscure nonsense the questioner knows. It's a difficult trap to avoid and I'm totally not having a go at anyone in saying that but there are some questions here that are much closer to the latter than the former.

I'll throw one in here and you can decide whether I've taken my own advice: name the set of islands Far Cry 3 takes place on.

Some History / Classic ones for you

How many pins on the standard joystick port for 8-bit computers (Atari / C64 / etc)
9

What was the Atari VCS system later renamed to ?
(Atari 2600)

What memory combinations did the original spectrum launch with
16k and 48k

You can tell a lot about a system by the numbers on it - what is the difference between a :

Amstrad CPC 464 and Amstrad CPC 664
(main answer 464=cassette / 664 = disc drive)

Atari 600XL and Atari 800XL
(600XL was 16k / 800XL was 64k)

Commodore C64 and Commodore C64s
(just a different case for the S to match the 128)

Or what is the difference between the Atari 1010 and the Atari 1050 ?
(1010 is a cassette deck / 1050 is a disk drive)

A lot of mine are - however I thought that was the point of all of those trivial pursuit games - you either pretty much know the answer or you dont - if you dont its unlikely you will guess them.

What is the name of The Last Ninja?

Bob.

Bob Ninja.

Good question... What's the answer?

As for the questions, I agree. The Disney trivial pursuit was basically aimed at people who had seen that specific film. If you hadn't, then there's no way you'd get the answer right.

The Rook Islands



As zaphod notes that's probably always going to be the case but to me there's a difference between questions that anyone who knew a bit about a certain game would stand a chance at getting and some that only obsessives would ever know the answer to.

Fucking hell, it's not Trivial Pursuit Call of Duty edition!

Have you edited that numerical order question? I'm sure it said 11 earlier.. I'm using that by the way.

Also, if there's no more GoW or Mass Effect games, I'd be surprised.

That's a fair point, it's probably safer to stick to stuff about specific games to avoid the questions going out of date.

As a vaguely more serious suggestion, What is the konami code?

Good question.

Make more easy questions. Nobody likes a game that they don't know any of the answers to.

What's Mario's brother called? Name the famous blue hedgehog from Sega games? Etc

Name the childish football game released by Sensible Software.

BZZZT repetition - Mr Dave already called that out and at least one of the questions references two non COD games series - end of the day and i was just typing nonsense and COD is a series that i know a lot of trivial crap from without too much thinking involved.



I have - this years is 11 (the Sledgehammer game) - Ghosts is definitely 10

1 , 2 , 3 , 4(MW) , WaW , MW2 , BO , MW3 , BO2 , Ghosts



Or what does it do on game X (Contra for example it gives you 30 lives)

Some other history ones around names - Whats the housekeepers name in Jet Set Willy (Maria) / Whats the name of your hero in Castlevania (Simon Belmont) / whats the name of the main character in Castlevania Symphony of the night (Alucard) / What are the names of the two bubble breathing dragons in the arcade game Bubble Bobble ? (Bub and Bob) / What are the names of the 4 ghosts in the english version of Pac Man (Binky , Pinky , Inky , Clyde) <- thats the first one i've had to look up I could not remember Inky / What is your characters name in Ghosts 'n' Goblins (Sir Arthur)

Which actor links these Videogames series: Fallout, Mass Effect, Halo, Saints Row, Call of Duty, Dissidia: Final Fantasy?

In Monkey Island, what is the correct response to the insult "you fight like a dairy farmer"?

I don't know? What us it?

Something about a cow ...

** edit ** googled 'how appropriate, you fight like a cow'

You could have almost any of those as a question / response :-)

http://www.worldofmi.com/gamehelp/insults/mi1.php

I enjoy your cottage quizzes.

What was the first game that needed the Sony Dual Shock Controller to be played?

Ha! Great minds. That's already in there.

Now I want to play Monkey Island again.

Bullworth Academy is the setting of which Video game?



What is the 151st Pokemon?

Both added! Ace.

Are Games Art?


What is the best game?


Which games company are utter cunts?

I do think you need a seasoning of obscure/esoteric questions, but that's all. If it's all "What was the Poke command for unlimited lives in Manic Miner" then you're going to lose the interest of most of the people playing.

Assuming that all of the players are gamers, then test their muscle memory as well, with questions about what control inputs did what. Maybe throw some simple things in like how do you make Sonic jump, but also how do you make Ken/Ryu produce a fireball.

You could also deal with character names in games — Mario is littered with enemies no-one knows the names of from Bob-omb to Shyguys

Then you have genre's to deal with, from the what was the first of, to game changing aspects of certain genres, be they text adventures, FPS, racing games, etc., etc.

You could also litter the quiz with key personnel of famous games producers/designers. You know where to go with this

What was Bully's original UK PS2 release title?