Video Games

Mario

Games company that created Mario		Nintendo
Arcade game in which Mario first appeared (1981, as Jumpman)		Donkey Kong
Mario's trade		Plumber
The land in which Mario's adventures take place		Mushroom Kingdom
Mario's brother (in Mario Brothers and Super Mario Brothers)		Luigi
Mario's task is often to rescue		Princess Peach
Mario's main antagonist (a turtle–like monster)		Bowser
Character created in 1992 as an evil version of Mario – name is a combination of "Mario" and the Japanese word for "bad"		Wario
Dinosaur that first appeared in Super Mario World (1990) as a sidekick of the Mario brothers, going on to appear in various Mario games and spin–offs		Yoshi

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Launched in 2009 by Finnish company Rovio Entertainment; has been praised for its successful combination of fun gameplay, comical style, and low price; now a multi–media franchise		Angry Birds
Bartender Desmond Miles is pitted against the Knights Templar, in		Assassin's Creed
Modern Warfare (2007 and sequels), World at War (2008), Black Ops (2010 and sequels), Ghosts (2013), Advanced Warfare (2014) and Vanguard (2021) are editions of		Call of Duty
Tiffi, Easter Bunny, Mr. Toffee, shop owner Mr. Yeti, Odus the Owl, and the evil Bubblegum Troll, are all characters in		Candy Crush Saga
Launched in 2012, announced its 2,000th level in September 2016
Soda, Jelly and Friends are words that have been used to denote variants of
Appears as himself in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories		Phil Collins
Star of the Tomb Raider franchise: has been voiced by Shelley Blond, Keeley Hawes and Camilla Luddington (among others)		Lara Croft
Series of games aimed at children, where the object is to feed sweets to a green frog-like creatue called Om Nom; the original version sold a million copies in nine days on its release in 2010		Cut the Rope
Commercially disastrous Atari game, millions of copies of which are believed by some to have been buried at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1983		E.T. the Extra–Terrestrial
Series of post–apocalyptic games, the original (released in 1997) being set in California in the year the year 2161: the player takes the role of a character called the Vault Dweller; features a wrist–held computer called the Pip–Boy (Personal Information Processor–Boy) and a recurring character called Vault Boy, who is the mascot of the sinister Vault–Tec Corporation		Fallout
Survival game, launched by North Carolina–based Epic Games in 2017: quickly became a cultural phenomenon, drawing in more than 125 million players in less than a year; popularised the dance crazes flossing, fresh and flapping		Fortnite
Hand–held games console launched by Nintendo in 1989		Game Boy
San Andreas, Liberty City and Los Santos are locations in		Grand Theft Auto
Largely set in the kingdom of Hyrule; Link, the playable character and chief protagonist, is often given the task of rescuing Hyrule and the eponymous princess from Ganon, the main antagonist		The Legend of Zelda
Created by Swedish programmer Marcus Persson (who likes to be called Notch); released in 2011 by Mojang, the company he set up to develop it, which was bought by Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion; has survival mode, hardcore mode, creative mode, adventure mode, and spectator mode		Minecraft
Classic arcade game: the title character must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze, while avoiding four coloured 'ghosts' named Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde		Pac–Man
Seminal arcade tennis simulation game launched in 1972 by Atari		Pong
Western–themed action adventure game series: first edition, released in 2004 and set in the 1880s, featured bounty hunter Red Harlow; second (2010) is set in 1911 and features former outlaw John Marston; third (2018) is set in 1899 and features outlaw Arthur Morgan		Red Dead (Revolver / Redemption / Redemption 2)
Franchise originating in Japan, dating from 1996: known in Japan as Biohazard; original playable characters are Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine; various characters battle zombies and other monsters created by the Umbrella Corporation; Raccoon City is one of the principal settings (except that it was destroyed in 1998 and has been cordoned off by the US Government ever since)		Resident Evil
Company behind Sonic the Hedgehog, Total War and Yakuza; stopped making consoles after the failure of the Dreamcast (introduced in 1998)		Sega
Developed by Will Wright and first published by Brøderbund in 1989: players build a virtual city and develop its industry and infrastructure; importance is placed on increasing the standard of living of the population, maintaining a balance between the different sectors, and monitoring the wider environment to prevent the settlement from declining and ultimately going bankrupt		SimCity
Developed by Maxis as an offshoot of the above; published by Electronic Arts, launched in 2000; players create virtual people, place them in houses, and help direct their moods and satisfy their desires		The Sims
Star of a game launched by Sega in 1991: his quest was to defeat Dr. Ivo Robotnik (a.k.a. Eggman or Doctor Eggman), an evil scientist who had imprisoned animals in robots and stolen the magical Chaos Emeralds		Sonic the Hedgehog
Created in the Soviet Union (Russia) in 1984: met with huge success when bundled in with early Game Boys; as of 2014, second only to Mario in number of paid downloads; involves stacking two–dimensional geometric shapes as efficiently as possible		Tetris
First published in 2000: has included editions called Shogun, Mediaeval, Rome, Napoleon, Attila and Warhammer		Total War
Features treasure hunter Nathan "Nate" Drake (the main protagonist), senior treasure hunter and mentor Victor "Sully" Sullivan, and journalist Elena Fisher		Uncharted
"High fantasy" franchise, dating from 1994: set in and around the world of Azeroth		Warcraft
Sega franchise, introduced in 2005: name is a Japanese word for a gangster or crime syndicate		Yakuza

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