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Test Your Game Knowledge 7:
The Answers Revealed

Let's see how you did, shall we?

Question #1: What's the best-selling (retail) first person shooter (FPS) of all time?

Answer: According to PCData, the best selling FPS of all time is Doom II: Hell on Earth. The original Doom almost certainly outsold it, but since it was a shareware game, it's impossible to find out specifics without going through id's records. Interestingly enough, the Doom shareware isn't far behind Doom II, having sold over a million retail copies.

Question #2: What Doom and Quake designer is also the author of a popular pen and paper RPG?

Answer: Sandy Petersen, who worked on both Doom and Quake (and now works for Ensemble, where he's working on Age of Empires II), is the author of the Call of Cthulu role playing game.

Question #3: What was the first FPS to feature fog effects?

Answer: The first FPS to feature fog effects was trivia favorite Rise of the Triad.

And the winners is...Ben Turner!

Woo hoo! E-mail us the name of the game you want, and we'll get that to you as soon as we remember to mail it.

And now...those wacky entries:

Question #1: Quite a few people expressed their fear that the answer would wind up being Deer Hunter. While it's certainly closer than a lot of people are comfortable with, Doom II is undoubtedly the leader here.

And then there's the silly answers:

"I don't know but my baby sitter said that 1+1=11 ha ha ha"
-- JIZITUP

"Funny Question: None of them, they all sucked."
-- Fantaz

"Quake 2, for retail sales. Unreal for OEM sales."
-- Voodoo3 Man

"I would say Doom2 but it probably is some console title anyway, since loads of console game copies get sold in Japan."
-- grEEbo

True, but most of those are dance simulations and Pokemon games. Not many FPS games. :)

"Doom... Comeon.... 7 friggen platforms... it HAS to be it!!! if it isn't though its probably Quake. id RULES!"
-- GoatCheez

"This is a trick question. Its obviously a toss-up between VGA Planets and Ski-Free."
-- Adnan "skew" Zafar

"Pamela Anderson"
-- QuakennN

Question #2: The two most common answers were John Romero and Paul Jacquays. Paul J's a pretty good guess, but of course, he didn't actually work on either Doom or Quake, so that rules him out. Besides those two, just about everyone ever associated with id Software was put down as a guess, from Christian Antkow, to Tom Hall.

"'My cat's breath smells like cat food.' -Ralph Wiggims"
-- Kevin M Guthrie

"Carmack can do anything"
-- Gary Stein

"Which designer? Quake had designers?"
-- Andrew Stine

"John Romero (that sexy-haired wallabe!)"
-- rufees

"Its not Paul Jaquays because he began work during Quake 2. So it would half to be Tim Willits, unless the way you asked the question was incorrect. Was It...? WAS IT?"
-- Ben Donges

"The nerd (no offense Blue) who created Dungeons and Dragons?"
-- Spezzer

No offense Blue?

"Pamela Anderson"
-- QuakennN

Question #3: I take full responsibility for this question (actually, all the questions are my fault, but this one I'm actually sorry for). When I originally wrote this question, I had a different game in mind, but it turned out that ROTT did it first. Doh! I promise everyone that there won't be a ROTT question for at least two weeks. Really.

"Quake III!!!!"
-- Josh Marcum

"Turok.... Even though they used it to cover up that their crappy engine couldn't handle the poly counts of the real world!"
-- GoatCheez

"Donkey Basketball, the view from Uranus."
-- Whitey

"If you mean fake-clip-plane-386-era fog, then Hexen. If you mean true volumetric fog, then Unreal."
-- Vængr3I =

"Doom... 20 or so feet away from you, the view fades out! HEY, THATS A FOG EFFECT!"
-- Matt James Bovett

"Pamela Anderson"
-- QuakennN

There you go, everyone...hope you all had fun...and hey! Kick butt! It's another contest! Enter away!

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