Sometime the old-school ways of getting an edge on the competition are the best ways.
| 1. This 2009 video game hybrid was a co-production between Traveller's Tales, based in England, and Harmonix, based here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| (L) Contra Band | (S) Guitar HeroQuest |
| (A) Lego Rock Band | (T) Grand Theft Audio |
| 2. If you know where to find them, space marines which sound suspiciously like Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter show up in one of the missions of which of the following first-person shooters? | |
| (I) Doom | (O) Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles |
| (R) Duke Nukem Forever | (N) Halo 4 |
| 3. The Ratchet and Clank game series include multiple installments where a secret area showcases things which did not make it into the current game (or a previous one). In each of these games, what name is given to this secret area? | |
| (S) Insomniac Museum | (A) Heretical Zone |
| (N) Alternate Universe Portal | (E) Little Shop, Little Shop of Secrets |
| 4. The secret room in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past contains a greeting from which of the following? | |
| (T) American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald | (W) Nintendo Power contest winner Chris Houlihan |
| (I) Composer Koji Kondo | (G) Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde |
| 5. Maniac Mansion, one of the earliest point-and-click adventure games, appears as a fully playable game-within-a-game in which ohter Lucasarts title? | |
| (A) Grim Fandango | (E) Day of the Tentacle |
| (R) Sam and Max Hit the Road | (O) The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition |
| 6. The game Borderlands 2 contains which of the following secret areas as a graphically distinctive homage to an entirely different video game? | |
| (B) Construction site, in the style of Donkey Kong | (A) Pit lined with tetrominoes, in the style of Tetris |
| (R) Cave, in the style of Minecraft | (S) "Knight Club," in the style of King's Quest |
| 7. In Left 4 Dead 2, which of the following tunes can be played on a jukebox within the game? | |
| (T) "Pac-Man Fever" by Buckner and Garcia | (P) Theme from Mortal Kombat |
| (O) "Everybody Loves Donuts" From "'Splosion man" | (S) "Still Alive" from Portal |
| 8. This early videogame is notable for being one of the first - possibly the very first - to have both a hidden room and a hidden designer credit in it. (But no duck.) | |
| (W) Adventure | (U) Mystery House |
| (H) Castle Wolfenstein | (T) Pitfall! |
| 9. The so-called "Hadouken", a super-powerful weapon hidden at the end of a Mega Man X stage, is a what? | |
| (I) Fireball | (O) Orb which shoots lightning |
| (C) Homing missile | (N) Multidirectional BB Gun |
| 10. Spoiler alert! The initial letters in the chapter titles in the video game "Dead Space" spell out a Something of a spoiler. What do they spell? | |
| (D) Alpha base not safe | (A) No known cure |
| (R) The boat sinks | (T) Nicole is dead |
| 11. Star Wars: the Force Unleashed II contains a statue and wearable outfit from what decidedly un-Star-Wars-Like source? | |
| (S) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | (E) The Transformers toy line |
| (H) The Monkey Island series | (D) The Duke Nukem series |