101 Video Game Trivia Questions
November 6, 2025
Make no mistake about it: people love playing video games. In fact, there are billions of video game players worldwide. How many, exactly? Well, that’s one of the trivia questions below, so I won’t give away the answer. These 101 video game trivia questions are designed to help players of all ages brush up on facts, figures, and fun information about video games. How many can you get right?
101 Video Game Trivia Questions
1) When was Super Mario Bros. initially released?
September 13, 1985.
2) Which video game company published Super Mario Bros.?
Nintendo.
3) Who is Mario’s brother in Super Mario Bros.?
Luigi.
4) Who does Mario have to rescue in the original Super Mario Bros.?
Princess Toadstool. She becomes Princess Peach in later editions of the game.
5) What is Princess Peach’s official title?
She is the princess regnant and head of state of the Mushroom Kingdom.
6) Who else lives in Princess Peach’s castle?
Princess Peach lives in her castle with Toads.
7) What is the most prominent feature of Toad (and all the other Toads)?
Toad has a large mushroom head with red spots on it.
8) Who do Mario and Luigi have to defeat to free Princess Peach?
Bowser.
9) Who is the antithesis of Mario?
Wario.
10) Tetris was created by which famous video game company?
Atari created Tetris, which requires players to slot differently shaped bricks together to prevent the screen from filling up.
11) When did Atari first release Tetris?
12) Was Tetris first released for arcade machines or for home video game consoles?
Arcades.
13) In which three decades did electronic pinball machines become popular?
While pinball machines have existed since the late 1800s or early 1900s, depending on who you ask, electronic pinball machines became popular in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
14) When you play a Wii video game system, you create an avatar for yourself on the screen. What are those avatars called?
Mii.
15) What five sports are available in Wii Sports?
Tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing.
16) When was Donkey Kong invented?
The original was designed in 1981.
17) Which video game invites players to race go-karts while playing as different popular video game characters from a variety of franchises?
Mario Kart.
18) What year was Mario Kart first released?
Nintendo launched Mario Kart in 1992 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
19) There are lots of versions of Mario Kart. How many are there?
After the original, Nintendo released 10 different versions of Mario Kart, including those for different consoles like Wii, Switch, and DS. That makes 11 versions total.
20) What is the best-selling video game to date?
In 2023, Minecraft became the first video game to sell more than 300 million copies.
21) The second most best-selling video game has sold 200 million copies. Which video game is that?
Grand Theft Auto V
22) Which video game allows you to walk around the real world and collect tiny battling monsters that “appear” in the camera on your phone?
Pokemon Go.
23) With an estimated 1.1 billion players, which video game is the most popular by player count?
That title goes to PUBG, which is an abbreviation of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, an obviously popular multiplayer battle royale shooter game.
24) Which popular video game lets you create your games, called “experiences” in a dialect of the programming language Lua?
Roblox.
25) Roblox, while fun, has invited some controversy based on the content of some user-created experiences. In which countries has Roblox been restricted or blocked?
China, Turkey, Qatar, and Jordan.
26) What is the virtual currency that users play with in Roblox?
The virtual currency is called Robux and it can be purchased with real-world money.
27) Software engineers David Baszucki and Erik Cassel created Roblox in what year?
They built the game in 2004, but previously worked for a company called Knowledge Revolution, creating other educational and physics simulation software.
28) Where does the name Grand Theft Auto come from?
“Grand theft auto” is the legal term for motor vehicle theft in the United States.
29) What does NPC stand for?
Nonplayer character.
30) What does it mean if a video game is an “open world” game?
Players in an “open world” video game are able to approach objects and non-player characters freely, interacting with the game environment in a number of ways. This is often called a “non-linear” virtual environment.
31) What are the names of the three fictional cities in which the original Grand Theft Auto takes place?
Liberty City, San Andreas, and Vice City.
32) What real-world cities are those fictional cities based on?
Liberty City is based on New York City. San Andreas is based on San Francisco. Vice City is based on Miami.
33) The original Grand Theft Auto, released in 1997, was playable using what computer systems?
MS-DOS and Windows.
34) Which popular video game features characters that appear as block-like people who walk around in a cube-shaped world?
Minecraft.
35) Minecraft is referred to as a “sandbox game.” What does that mean?
A sandbox game is a video game in which there is no prescribed end or goal for players to reach. They can interact with the game freely and with their own creativity. They can also set their own goals for themselves.
36) Minecraft is such a sandbox game that it has also been used in educational contexts to teach which subjects?
Teachers have used Minecraft to teach chemistry, computer-aided design, and computer science.
37) What is the Minecraft game mode in which players must gather natural resources, like wood and stone, while fending off monsters that spawn in the dark?
Survival Mode.
38) What is the Minecraft game mode in which players have access to an infinite number of resources and can fly freely around the game world whenever they want?
Creative Mode.
39) What are the gameplay changes called that players in the community create in order to build new versions of Minecraft?
Mods. They’re created by the modding community.
40) Which popular block toy brings Minecraft to life in the physical world?
LEGO Minecraft.
41) What is the word for the cosmetic, virtual items that you can add to a video game avatar that alters the avatar’s appearance without fundamentally changing the character?
Skins.
42) How much money is generated in the production of video game skins annually?
As of 2022, video game skins generated more than $50 billion.
43) Which puzzle platform video game is abbreviated as LBP?
LittleBIGPlanet.
44) What is the LittleBIGPlanet tagline?
“Play, Create, Share.”
45) What’s the name of the player character featured in LittleBIGPlanet?
Sackboy.
46) What does Sackboy look like?
Sackboy is a doll-like character made of a burlap sack. His eyes are made of buttons. His body is closed up with a zipper.
47) What are the NPCs in LittleBIGPlanet called that are designed to give players more control over their levels and to make their gameplay more intelligent?
Those NPCs are called Sackbots.
48) What is the name of the 1991 Sega video game in which two funky, slang-speaking alien rappers crash-land on Earth and attempt to escape the planet?
ToeJam & Earl.
49) What was the first 3D Mario Bros. game called?
Super Mario 64.
50) When was Super Mario 64 released?
June 1996.
51) At the beginning of Super Mario 64, before gameplay commences, a large image of Mario’s face fills the screen. What can players do on this screen?
Players can stretch Mario’s face in all directions and change his expression.
52) What is the name of the little green dinosaur that Mario rides around on?
Yoshi.
53) In which crossover video game can you play as a famous character from a number of different franchises and then fight the other characters, attempting to knock them off of a stage?
Super Smash Bros.
54) As of 2025, how many units of Super Smash Bros. have been sold?
There have been more than 77 million Super Smash Bros. games sold as of 2025, making it one of the best selling video games of all time.
55) The Game Boy was first launched in Japan. What year did it arrive on the scene?
Game Boys were first available for purchase in Japan on April 21, 1989.
56) What color was the original Game Boy?
Gray.
57) The handheld gaming console eventually made way for Nintendo to release a new, hybrid, tablet-style console that can be used as a portable device or with a television. What is the name of this Nintendo gaming console?
Nintendo Switch.
58) What is the name of Sony’s popular series of gaming consoles?
PlayStation.
59) How many different versions of PlayStation are there?
There are five different standard PlayStations that have evolved over the years, including slim and pro models.
60) Which video game drops up to 100 players from a “Battle Bus” into a game map where players must find weapons and fight one another while a toxic storm slowly encroaches?
Fortnite Battle Royale.
61) Which Fortnite game was designed to let kids play an “age-appropriate Grand Theft Auto” type of game?
Lego Fortnite.
62) Which “prequel” video game, developed by the creators of Grand Theft Auto, takes place is a fictional version of the U.S. in 1899 and the declining Wild West?
Red Dead Redemption 2.
63) What year is the original Red Dead Redemption set in?
It’s set during the decline of the American frontier in 1911.
64) In Red Dead Redemption, a player’s actions affect their honor, fame, and how other NPCs respond to the player. What is this system called?
A morality system.
65) True or false: The production of Red Dead Redemption took five years and involved field trips to Washington, D.C. to study classic Western films.
True.
66) What is the name of the main character in Red Dead Redemption?
John Marston.
67) What are the names of the fictional American and Mexican states in Read Dead Redemption?
New Austin, West Elizabeth, and Nuevo Paraíso.
68) What is the name of the gameplay mechanic in Red Dead Redemption that allows players to slow down time and mark their targets?
Gunslinger game play.
69) True or false: In Red Dead Redemption, witnesses will run to the police station to report a crime committed by the main player. That player can then bribe or kill the NPC before they get to the police station.
True.
70) How many players can participate in the online multiplayer version of Red Dead Redemption?
Up to 16 people can play at once.
71) True or false: the creator of Tetris designed the game in China.
False. The creator, Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, designed Tetris at the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
72) What is the sequel to Tetris called?
Welltris.
73) True or false: the slogan for Welltris was “The Soviet Challenge Continues…”
True!
74) As of 2025, how many Pokémon are there?
There are 1,025 Pokémon creatures as of 2025.
75) Pokémon is a portmanteau—a word created by placing two halves of two different words together. What two words is Pokémon a portmanteau of?
Pocket and monster. Pokémon are pocket monsters!
76) What were the first two colors of the original Pokémon Game Boy games released in Japan?
Red and Green.
77) In America, the original color releases of the first Pokémon games were which colors instead?
Red and Blue.
78) In the original Pokémon games, what are the three types of monsters that exist? Hint: the types are based on things found in nature.
Fire, Water, or Grass.
79) What are the eight different Pokémon that Normal-type Eevee can evolve into?
Jolteon, Flareon, Vaporeon, Umbreon, Espeon, Leafeon, Glaceon, and Sylveon.
80) How much does Bulbasaur weigh?
Bulbasaur weighs 15.2 lbs. or 6.9 kg. Bulbasaur is 2’4” or .7 meters tall.
81) What can Bulbasaur evolve into?
Ivysaur and Venasaur.
82) What type of Pokémon is Mew?
Psychic.
83) True or false: Mew evolves.
False. Mew does not evolve.
84) What is the shape of Pikachu’s tail?
A lightning bolt.
85) Who is the human protagonist of Pokémon that keeps Pikachu as his companion?
Ash Ketchum.
86) What is the popular slogan of Pokémon that uses a word that sounds like Ash’s last name?
“Gotta catch ‘em all!”
87) What is the name of the comprehensive Pokémon encyclopedia that players attempt to complete by playing the game?
The Pokédex.
88) True or false: Pokémon Yellow was remade for Nintendo Switch as Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!
True! The games were released in 2018.
89) What is the name of the famous researcher in Pokémon?
Professor Samuel Oak.
90) How many different languages is Pokémon available in?
Nine different languages.
91) What are the nine different languages that you can play Pokémon in?
Japanese, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
92) How many video games exist in the world, in general?
In 2025, there are roughly 5 million games in the world, according to Games Publisher.
93) How many games are available on the gaming platform Steam?
67,821 games.
94) Which platform has more games available: Nintendo Switch or Playstation?
Nintendo Switch. It has 12,062 games you can play. The combined titles available on PlayStations 4 and 5 are 6,340.
95) What is the most popular genre of video game?
While we often think of first-person games as being popular, the most popular game genre is actually puzzle games, with 65% of players choosing them.
96) How many people play video games around the world?
As of 2024, there were roughly 3.32 billion video game players worldwide, according to Games Publisher.
97) Which country has the most video game players?
China.
98) True or false: Men make up 79% of video game players and women make up 21%.
False! The numbers are actually very close. Men make up 53% of players and women 46%.
99) Which early video game, created in 1951, allowed players to face off against an artificial intelligence?
Nimrod.
100) True or false: Nimrod was created only to entertain.
False. It was actually displayed in order to show off the computing system of the creating company, Ferranti.
101) Which classic video game lets players run around a maze as a small yellow circle eating cherries and dodging ghosts?
Pac-Man.
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