Retro Gaming Quiz for 80s and 90s Kids

What was Mario's original name? If you answered Jumpman without blinking, you're exactly who this quiz was made for. It packs ten questions on the classic video games of the 80s and 90s into a four to six minute nostalgia run, with 10 points riding on every correct answer.

From Pong to the PlayStation in ten questions

The set opens at the very start of the medium, asking which title was the first commercially successful video game, and closes with the year Sony launched the original PlayStation in Japan. In between it covers the ghosts of Pac-Man, Ryu's signature move in Street Fighter II, the best selling NES game, and the Konami Code. Formats vary: straight single choice questions sit alongside true or false statements and select-all items such as picking the Nintendo consoles out of a lineup that includes the Genesis and the TurboGrafx-16.

Scoring is points based, 100 in total with a pass mark of 60. Feedback lands instantly after each answer, and every question ships with a short explanation, so a wrong guess on the Konami Code still teaches you that it started in Gradius before Contra made it famous. Question order shuffles for each taker, skipping is off, and there's no returning to earlier screens, which keeps the leaderboard honest.

The hosts who queue this one up

Trivia night hosts use it as a themed round, gaming bars and arcades run it on a screen or a QR code by the till, and Discord mods post the link when a server needs something to argue about. Streamers pull it up on stream and let chat play along, while office social committees drop it into a Friday channel to find out who spent the 90s in front of a CRT.

The built in leaderboard does the heavy lifting in all of these settings. Because retakes are switched on, regulars can grind their way back up the rankings, which is half the fun.

Tune the difficulty to your crowd

Swap any question, rewrite the answer options, change point values, or move the 60 point pass mark if your crowd wants more of a challenge. You can slot in Sega deep cuts or a modern round without touching the rest, restyle the quiz with your own colors and logo, and switch on a lead capture step if you want contact details from players.

Sharing works however your audience gathers: a direct link, a QR code for posters and table tents, social posts, or an embed on your site. Running WordPress? Uplup's plugin gives you a shortcode that drops the quiz straight into any page or post. Results flow into analytics with question level stats and CSV export, and the whole template sits on Uplup's free plan, so there's nothing to pay before your first taker hits submit.