Arcade Trivia Quiz

The question is: What percentage of players remember that there was a game about what percentage of players remember old video game quizzes? Arcade Trivia Quiz from 1989 is exactly the type of title that time and advancing hardware didn't help one bit. It runs on DOS, looks like it was unnecessarily afraid of colors, and its only activity is asking you questions about old arcades.

You get eight answer options for simple questions — how many coins did the game have, what was its name, which was which. The mechanics are as simple as bread: read the question, click a number. If you guess right, you advance and earn points. If not, you lose. No drama, no animations, nothing. Just a black screen, white text, and a question-answer cycle that could run on a 1985 assistant.

The essence of games is fun. Arcade Trivia Quiz doesn't even bother with fun. The questions are for connoisseurs who drool over Pac-Man and Space Invaders, but if you're not an old-timer with encyclopedic memory of Donkey Kong Junior or Dig Dug, you'll just be clicking blindly. Neither graphics nor sound entertain you — it was probably a way back then to sell nostalgia without the money for quality.

What do you take away from it? A pinch of retro charm if you're into old arcade titles and want to test your knowledge. Otherwise it's pure function without flavor, without soul. It would've been great in 1989 at some retro party — nowadays it only works as a curiosity in an archive of old games.

Today only some collector or arcade expert would look at it to verify how much they actually know. Otherwise pointless. It plays fine in a browser, but that's almost the only reason to mention it at all.