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Puzzler: Box-art mysteries (episode 5)

Mindjack
Thursday, August 04, 2011

Here at Bitmob, we’re always looking for ways to help exercise your brain and keep it in peak performance. For today’s puzzler, take a good look at the box-art snippets below, and try to remember the video games they come from.


BAM 5

Need some hints? See below.

 
  1. It may have been inspired by the movie Aliens.
  2. Only time will tell if you get this one right.
  3. Be good. Be bad. Drive fast.
  4. Warp through the folds of time to save a goddess.
  5. Playing God is your only choice.
  6. It’ll hold. We’ll make it.
  7. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "Yes!"
  8. Less Adder, more Guld.
  9. Fatal Frame and Dead Rising have something in common with this one.

Time’s up! Put down your pencils, and head to page two for the answers.

 
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Comments (29)
Mikeshadesbitmob0611
August 04, 2011

6/9. Had the wrong game in the series for 8, didn't find the box art for 3 memorable at all, and 5 is just me not being enough of a gamer to remember a box I've literally seen a thousand times :(

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

You're still the puzzler authority around here. #8 is a tough one. Even if you saw the whole art, you could still think it was the first game in the series.

Profile
August 04, 2011

I'll never forget those sexy thighs

Default_picture
August 04, 2011

4/9 for me :P

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

7/9 for me, and I made this!

Robsavillo
August 04, 2011

The hint for #5 might be a little misleading if you didn't play (or know the history of) the Japanese version....

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

Really? I thought it was the most obvious hint, and I never played the Japanese version. Who do you play as in the American version?

Robsavillo
August 04, 2011

Without giving anything away, you do explicitly play the Abrahamic God (with a capital "G") in the Japanese version. Nintendo watered it down to "The Master" and removed the explicit Christian references in the North American release.

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

As a kid, I thought "The Master" was a god, like, the God. I can see why Nintendo altered the game.

No wonder everyone asks you for advice!

Default_picture
August 04, 2011

I played 6 of these games, but only got 3 right ... Those green lips are unmistakable, though.

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

I doubt it's a coincidence that her name happens to be Jade.

Default_picture
August 04, 2011

DAMN! I am forever stumped. I was so sure i knew #2

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

You didn't get #2? What did you think it was? (please, no poop jokes)

Default_picture
August 04, 2011

Okami. I didn't think about it long enough. 

Default_picture
August 04, 2011

yeesh. I was looking at the pictures for a good 5 minutes. I managed 6/9.

also, Although the lips gave me the answer right away, hint 9 made me feel like an idiot... I was thinking what DID the three games had in common... ... ... then I realized... I'm an idiot. XD

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

And you managed to make me LOL for being an idiot, so it works out! That makes me wonder...are there any more female characters with green lipstick?

Default_picture
August 04, 2011

The only other one that comes to mind is Tira in Soul Calibur 3, I think. I'm usually too distracted by the underboob so I can't be definitive.

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

Oh cool, that's the first time I look at her face!

Profile
August 04, 2011

Only 4/9 for me, I should've really looked harder as I know all the games lol

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

I'm not great at math, but I think you got about 102% of them right.

Profile
August 04, 2011

I also have about 34% of your name!

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

I used to put "S.A.M." as my initials when I got a high score in an arcade game. Memories....

Bitmob
August 04, 2011

Wow, I only got 2/9.  I'm kicking myself for not getting #4!

Mindjack
August 04, 2011

Did you kick yourself harder after reading the hint I provided?

Bitmob
August 04, 2011

Yes.  Then I went to my room and cried.

Pict0079-web
August 04, 2011
Not bad. 5 out of 9. #2 was pretty sneaky. I had to really think about that one.
Mindjack
August 04, 2011

Nice. Any other snippet from #2's box art would have given it away too easily.

Default_picture
August 05, 2011

I'm ashamed that I didn't get Chrono Trigger...

Mindjack
September 21, 2011

You should be.... :P

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