Video Games Dive — Unlimited Krillion Practice

Characters, consoles, studios and the long tail of gaming history.

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Video Games Dive

Seven Video Games prompts, 25 seconds each, one answer apiece. The rarer your answer, the deeper you sink.

How it works: you see a prompt, type one answer and press Enter. Obvious answers score little; rare but real ones score big.

Example: "Name a fruit" → Apple +10 is what everyone says, Salak +100 is what almost nobody says.

Scoring happens in your browser and stats stay on this device. Answers that miss our list are logged as text only, with no account or profile, to improve the prompts.

About the Video Games pack

Everyone can name Mario, Link and Pikachu. The Video Games pack is built for the moment after that, when you have to keep going. Ask for a character from the Mario series and the Surface zone is crowded with plumbers and princesses, but the later zones hold the Koopalings, the odd enemy from a 1988 sequel and sidekicks from the role-playing spin-offs.

Many prompts here are closed sets inside a famous series: Final Fantasy casts, every Robot Master in Mega Man, Pokemon Gym Leaders, Street Fighter rosters, Super Smash Bros. fighters and a long run of Sonic games. Others are wide lists such as consoles, studios, arcade classics and indie hits. Titles are matched forgivingly, so punctuation, a leading The and common short forms are fine.

To reach Midnight and Abyss, think about what shipped around the edges. Handhelds nobody bought, arcade cabinets from the 1970s, Genesis shooters, spin-offs on odd hardware, and the composers whose music you hummed without knowing their names. Go by console generation or by studio and work outward from the hits. A single dive here is a quick way to find out whether you really played everything you claim to have.

This pack currently has 24 prompts and 1,943 accepted answers, all written for this site.

Video Games prompts you might get

Each dive picks seven of these. The answers stay hidden until you have played.

Name a video game console or handheld
Name a character from the Super Mario series
Name a character from The Legend of Zelda series
Name a character from the Final Fantasy series
Name a fighter from Super Smash Bros.
Name a character from the Street Fighter series
Name a legendary or mythical Pokemon
Name a Pokemon video game
Name a Pokemon Gym Leader
Name a classic arcade game
Name a Sega Genesis or Mega Drive game
Name a Mega Man Robot Master
Name a video game protagonist
Name a video game villain
Name a Minecraft mob
Name a Mario video game
Name a Nintendo 64 game
Name a Sonic the Hedgehog video game
Name a Gen 1-9 grass, fire or water starter Pokemon or one of its evolutions
Name an indie video game
Name a fighting game or fighting game series
Name a video game developer or publisher
Name a game released on the original PlayStation
Name a video game music composer

More packs

This pack plays on its own page only. The Unlimited Dive and the Endless Descent mix the ten core packs.