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Hey everyone. I’ve gone and distracted Chad with a Japanese copy of Ecco: The Dolphin, giving me the chance to steal his weekly Retro Quiz column. You may have noticed in my Retro TV Game Revival profile, the store had quite an interesting floor. Namely, that the entirety of the first floor of the store was plastered with screenshots from famous retro games, along with ads from old issues of videogame magazines.

So, this week, instead of answering the usual batch of twenty questions that Chad writes up, I’ve got twenty screenshots numbered down after the jump. I’d like for you all to take a look at them, and try to name all twenty games that the images come from. It’s a bit of a change from the usual pace of things, but I figured I’d throw it up a little bit.

The answers will appear in Chad’s community blog as usual, as soon as he can identify all the games himself. See if you can score higher than Chad!

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Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 04/09/2008 09:11
Ha, that’s awesome. But you should probably include a note to tell people to right-click and hit “View Image”; otherwise, all we can see is that the images are cut off, so people might think that they only have a third of the “screenshot” for the even-numbered images.
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:18
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:19
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:19
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:19
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:19
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:19
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:19
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 09:19
Good call Samit, though I was just after doing what you said before I read what you're written! Maybe this will weed out the internet noobies? ;)
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ShawnKelfonne at 04/09/2008 09:26
C-c-c-combo breaker?
I recognize some of them like Shadowgate, Knights of the Round, Kung Fu, Sailor Moon, and Burgertime, but many of these seem like they may have only come out in Japan, and therefore I probably haven't played them (or at least wouldn't know the name).
AgentMOO's Avatar
AgentMOO at 04/09/2008 09:32
Oh no, where's chad? Did you throw him out of a tree?
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 04/09/2008 10:14
Why did you comment 8 times?
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VWGTI at 04/09/2008 10:20
lol
maxio098ui's Avatar
maxio098ui at 04/09/2008 10:30
11 knights of the round. im spent
glipe's Avatar
glipe at 04/09/2008 10:36
WTF happened there?!!! LOL!! Thinking about it, Firefox did go a bit weird when I clicked on Add Comment. Woh. Apologies all!
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king3vbo at 04/09/2008 10:39
WTF Glipe?

Thats insane
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calpis at 04/09/2008 12:31
#4 shadowgate!

I feel not dumb.
Matchstickman's Avatar
Matchstickman at 04/09/2008 13:01
Good to see you're keping up Chad's tradition, that of making one mistake per quiz.

Link
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/ul/77892-the-great-retro-quiz-2x-secret-den-den-town-edition/retroquiz5.jpg
to see the (currently) non-clickable pictures of 17-20.

But I have no answers!
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 04/09/2008 15:03
Is anybody else having text cut off as well? I can't read most of the post because so many of the words are missing to the side.
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Dexter345 at 04/09/2008 15:09
#6 is Burger Time, and the bonus is Ecco the Dolphin. #8 is obviously some sort of sexy Sailor Moon game, but considering that there have been a few over the years, I can't say which. Is it the Sailer Moon RPG that was on the SNES?
hammburglar's Avatar
hammburglar at 04/09/2008 16:01
i want chad back. youre mean. the only one i could figure out was burgertime. :(
NihonTiger90's Avatar
NihonTiger90 at 04/09/2008 17:40
Well, fuck. This one's gonna be tough.
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Brad Rice at 04/09/2008 20:16
Japan's Internet sucks. Uploading these photos have been a nightmare, and I've tried getting these onto the site so many times, and the gallery keeps failing. But the files direct are still on the site. Sorry for all the complications....

Also, here's set #5

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/ul/77892-the-great-retro-quiz-2x-secret-den-den-town-edition/retroquiz5.jpg
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