Happy Friday, and happy Christmas Eve eve!
This is it, the big Christmas MegaQuiz, and boy is it mega! Here are four rounds of tantalising teasers for you all to wrap your minds around. Hope you've all had your Weetabix, there's a lot of it.
Rules for this quiz: No more than three answers per post, no consecutive posts from the same user (mine don't count). Correct answers are worth 1 point each, or 0.5 points each if clues are given. If/when clues are given, rules no longer apply (except for the points rule, obviously). Ye merry gentlemen must be rested.
Have fun, folks!
Round 1: SCRambled
Here are 20 loading screens, all "scrambled" using the Paintbox tool in BASin. Can you identify which games they're from?
Round 2: Spot The Difference
Spot the differences in the pairs of pictures below.
Round 3: Music Round
Can you identify which games these tunes are from?
1.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6doinziuhve778z/01.mp3?dl=0
2.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgsj641upwtwyax/02.mp3?dl=0
3.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zu011zd2e3bizzs/03.mp3?dl=0
4.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8jbzimb4akzw6h/04.mp3?dl=0
5.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fufab8h8ydqoz97/05.mp3?dl=0
6.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/74ruzi3hec9z0lq/06.mp3?dl=0
7.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t0yb9miljgxxe8m/07.mp3?dl=0
8.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0n3d2psmp15lqdb/08.mp3?dl=0
9.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgorlr4xek0cbhy/09.mp3?dl=0
10.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0qv3a156aulk8qc/10.mp3?dl=0
11.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dsa8jirzdjl93io/11.mp3?dl=0
12.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ai1o4zvwxiupdon/12.mp3?dl=0
13.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6xfwz9m4287d0xq/13.mp3?dl=0
14.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1c4rimtwtijy1t/14.mp3?dl=0
15.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1hb0by99004g94/15.mp3?dl=0
16.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gpi7xybl1wxjzgc/16.mp3?dl=0
17.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tng11ws52v91y8u/17.mp3?dl=0
18.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/njtr7ukfi19ty7j/18.mp3?dl=0
19.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkxh4chpp50f55i/19.mp3?dl=0
20.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbe6g9a77otbjkg/20.mp3?dl=0
(The clips can be downloaded together in a zipfile from
here.)
Round 4: Crossword Round
A fab, Speccy-related crossword. It's huge!
Across:
4. Born in Whitby? (7)
7. Small insects fighting (3,6)
10. (Basic)contains info on the colour cell (4)
11. (Basic)Something you can smoke (3)
12. A task to do set ahead of time (7,6)
14. (Basic)Sound (4)
15. (Basic)Like a feline (3)
18. Place for a fast-food snack (6,3)
19. UK Sports program in the 80's (large erection) (10)
23. Spherical but not probable at all (11)
26. (Basic)Blanks the screen (3)
28. (Basic)Is it truely this? (3)
29. (Basic)GOTO's brother (2,3)
32. Initials of a famous platform game (1,1,1)
33. Farmer after his ovums (7,3)
35. Shooter that is a type of catpault (9)
37. Famous character in the early spectrum days (6)
38. Light bouncing game (9)
39. Wonder about (8)
40. Neil Kinnock's friend who was a bit up and down (5,5)
41. Part of a brush (8)
42. (Basic)Tattoo? (3)
43. Sport with a small ball and clubs (4)
44. Football game (5,3)
46. Used to be a green thing under a bridge (5)
47. Type of fairground (8)
49. Let's go Mr Driver (5,1,1)
52. Go around and this is the effect (9)
53. An idiot who doesn't drink enough water (8)
55. Sega's run 'n gun (4,7)
58. A frogger clone (4,4)
59. The best of arrow throwing, maybe a pint or two with it (5,5,5)
62. Murphy was top of the charts for a longtime (7)
63. Arch rival (7)
64. Shoot the rocks in space (9)
65. (Basic)Short for Valerie (3)
66. A mix of combustion engine (9)
68. (Basic)1/50th of a second for PAL machines (5)
69. The most famous 16k game (3,3)
71. Aim and fire at feathered water birds (4,5)
74. Blocked light brave fighters (6,8)
75. Shooter from Hewson (6)
Down:
1. David Hasseloff would be proud (6,5)
2. Like a James Bond Film but involving legs (3,4,6,4)
3. (Basic)Printer will get these items (5)
5. Spheres and unwanted balls on your xmas jumpers (6,6)
6. Revenge by a Ninja (7)
8. Yabba dabba do! (3,10)
9. Ever vigilant watcher (3,8)
13. (Basic)Arcsine (3)
16. Shape of a five-pointed star (9)
17. Quest for the largest Planet (7,7)
20. (Not again) but without a cause (8)
21. (Basic)slice of this mathematical constant (2)
22. Type of dream with Sir Lancelot (e.g.) (10)
24. (Basic)Lost the....? (4)
25. Old challenge one last time (4,4)
27. Bothered on the road, beat em up (12)
30. (Basic)1-d array (3)
31. Hit out at a our natural satellite (4,6)
34. (Basic)Followed by Randomize (3)
36. (Basic)Get this into memory "" (4)
45. Known as Contra elsewhere (6)
48. Save from our natural satellite (5,6)
49. Garden bug, arcade shooter (9)
50. Society without authorities or a governing body (7)
51. Larger than an atom person (8,3)
54. Americanised PC name for a refuse collector (8)
55. Hit with open hand combat, shooter (4,5)
56. Platformer that is trendy beer (9)
57. The technician that is good at running (3)
60. Kirk shouts this when Klingons appear (3,5)
61. (Basic)Absolute value of a number (3)
67. Wisdom from this puzzle (9)
70. An unclear educational establishment (5,9)
71. An egg character (5)
72. Initials of US nuclear plan in the 80's (1,1,1)
73. King and Queen was a free giveaway (5)
75. Largehead, rhymes with sub (3)
