Test your knowledge of '90s-era video game music with this quiz

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Friday, June 15, 2012

If you've read any of my articles in the last few months, you may have noticed that I love old video games. And music. And music from old video games. So the Kongregate Flash quiz Were You A Nineties Gamer? was right up my alley. At least, it should have been.

The test presents you with 93 snippets of game music, arrayed in Mario-style question-mark blocks. Your goal: Identify the titles by those sound clips.

Seems easy enough, but a few of these selections are pretty darn obscure. They also include a whole bunch of Sega Genesis games (the one retro system I never really played much).

Fortunately, you can listen to the clips in any order and return later to ones you're stumped on. You also pick up "hint points" with every correct answer, which you can use to unlocks bits of trivia and screenshots to help you with the trickier entries.

Even with all that, I don't think anyone could get them all right without cheating (read: Google). I only got 57 out of 93 before I ran out of hint juice. Give it a try and see if you can do better.

 
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Comments (3)
Me_and_luke
June 15, 2012

Boy, that was painful. I guess never owning a SNES or Genesis would make this difficult.  I was waiting for more late-generation NES games or any N64 games to come up.  I'd ace those tests...

Pict0079-web
June 15, 2012

I gave up. I didn't know there were so many Disney games. I didn't even know about all the good Genesis ones. The only one I played in the 16-bit era was Maui Mallard.

Lolface
June 15, 2012

I got 61 before I ran out of hint points, but I had to use Google for some spelling issues (I didn't know there were 2 ds in Aladdin). Does that count as cheating?

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