Retro night
The “From cassettes to Tamagotchi” quiz — Retro night. It has 25 questions in five categories: The magnetic age, Pocket wonders, Arcade halls, Before the internet, Computing firsts. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which video cassette format won the format war against Betamax?
What did you do to a cassette when the song cut off mid-word?
How many revolutions per…
In the gameWho released the first…
In the gameWhich Japanese company released…
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In which country did the Tamagotchi, the digital pet toy, appear in 1996?
Which Nintendo console of 1989 ran on batteries and fit in a pocket?
Which puzzle game was…
In the gameWhich furry robot toy…
In the gameWhat did Sony call…
In the gameWhich yellow eater of 1980 became the most recognisable arcade game of all time?
Who flew down in rows to attack Earth in the 1978 arcade that launched the golden age?
Which Soviet programmer…
In the gameWhat is the control…
In the gameWhich console saved the…
In the gameWhich device sang and hissed as it connected to the network over a phone line?
Which machine sent documents down a phone line, printing them on thermal paper?
Which distress signal is…
In the gameWhich device recorded callers'…
In the gameWhich American painter and…
In the gameWhich 'rodent' appeared under the user's hand in 1964 thanks to Douglas Engelbart?
What is the glass tube that drew the picture in old 'thick' televisions called?
What was the first…
In the gameWhat stood in for…
In the gameWhich company released the…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.