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Nintendo vs PlayStation

Cartridges against compact discs, mushrooms against memory cards. Pick a side and find out how well you remember the console war that made modern gaming.

🎮 Gaming medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • The original PlayStation first went on sale in Japan in which year?
  • Which storage format did the original PlayStation use for its games?
  • The Nintendo 64, released in 1996, stored its games on what?
  • The PlayStation 2 could play DVD films as well as games.
  • This power-up, first collected in 1985, makes the hero grow. Which Nintendo series introduced it?
  • Which game was released alongside the Nintendo 64 at its 1996 launch?
  • Which Nintendo handheld, released in 2004, had two screens with a touch-sensitive lower one?
  • The PlayStation grew out of a shelved Sony project to build a CD add-on for which console?
  • Select ALL of these machines that were made by Sony.
  • Final Fantasy VII, released in 1997, appeared on which console?
  • Did the Nintendo GameCube play standard full-size DVDs?
  • Which handheld did Sony launch in 2004 to take on the Nintendo DS?
  • Which studio developed the first Crash Bandicoot games for the original PlayStation?
  • Put these consoles in order of first release, earliest first.
  • Which British studio developed GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64?
  • Nintendo's Virtual Boy, released in 1995, showed its graphics only in red and black.
  • Select ALL of these games that first appeared on a Nintendo console.
  • Which Sony studio created Gran Turismo, released in 1997?
  • Who is widely called the father of the PlayStation?
  • Which Nintendo president, who led the company from 2002 until his death in 2015, began his career as a programmer?