Round 6: Free-for-All Cage Match Edition

A short game where you try to out-think other forum posters.

Rules:

• There are two types of questions: Sheep questions (1-18) and Reverse Sheep questions (20-37).
  
• For Sheep questions (1-18), you want to answer what you think will be given most often by other people. For example, if the question is "Name a Zelda game" a good answer might be Zelda: The Ocarina of Time and a bad answer would be Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon.
  
• For Reverse Sheep questions (20-37), you want to give the answer that you think will be given least often by other people. For example, if the question is "Name a game that has Mario in it", a terrible answer would probably be Super Mario Bros. A good answer would probably be Dr. Mario.
  
• In Sheep questions, you get one negative point for every person that gives the same answer as you, including yourself. For example, if you and six other people said Ocarina of Time, all eleven seven of you would get -7 points. No points are given if you are the only person to say an answer.
  
• In Reverse Sheep questions, you get one positive point for every person that gives the same answer as you, including yourself. If you and ten other people said Super Mario Bros., you would get 11 points.
  
• The lowest total score wins. In the above two examples, your current score would be 11 – 7 = 5.
  
• Unless otherwise noted, answer with US-released PC, console, or hand-held games only. 勇士の紋章 ディープダンジョン is not a valid answer for a question.
  
• New! There are lightning rounds (marked by the !!!). In these, answers count double. Wrong answers in Reverse are still one point above the most common answer.
  
• No using Google, Gamefaqs, Wikipedia, etc if you don't have to. Try to remain moral in this (i.e. don't use them to cheat).
  
• Private message me your answers. Do not post them in this thread or tell anyone else.
  
• I've included an Excel file if you want to keep track of your answers. Simply copy your column of answers and PM it to me when you're done.
  
• To make it easier for me to score the results, please list your answers one per line and don't number the items.
  
• Incorrect answers in Reverse Sheep get the number of points for the answer with the most votes + 1, making it worse than giving the worst correct answer.
  
• Answers are due by Sunday, April 5th at 11:59PM EDT. Answers will be revealed the following week during business hours (to give you all something to do).
  
• Question 19 is a special question. It can either be Sheep or Reverse Sheep, as determined by the closing price of Activision-Blizzard stock on April 6. If the price (in pennies) is even, it is a Sheep question. If the price (in pennies) is odd, it is a Reverse Sheep question. Since I will not get to Question 19 on the first day, there should be no problem with this one.
  

Questions:

SHEEP QUESTIONS

1. Name a race or class for a playable character in World of Warcraft.
   
2. Name an arcade game that uses a control scheme other than just a joystick and buttons.
   
3. Name a public figure who has spoken out against video games.
   
4. Name a console from any generation that did not finish first or second in sales.
   
5. Name a game developed by Rare that doesn't involve cute cartoon animals.
   
6. !!! Name a Capcom game without the words "Street" or "Mega" in the title.
   
7. Aside from Wolverine, name an X-Men member playable in any game.
   
8. Name a game with great graphics that was released in the 90s.
   
9. Name a Nintendo DS game that uses the stylus sparingly or not at all.
   
10. Name a PSP game that has also appeared on console systems.
    
11. Name a video game executive or developer who has become a household name (among us, at least). I'm looking for a person, not a company.
    
12. !!! Name a game that you believe appeals greatly to females.
    
13. Name one of the guilds you could join in Oblivion. For non-players, keep in mind the game followed western RPG archetypes.
    
14. !!! Name a PC game that is at least ten years old that people still play today.
    
15. Name a game that required more than one disc to play.
    
16. What is considered the best game of this console generation?
    
17. Name a game with a color in the title.
    
18. Name a still-living & active musician or group whose music has not appeared (or is not scheduled to appear) in any Rock Band or Guitar Hero game. I will consider "active" meaning they still tour and record new material.
    
    
    TOSS-UP QUESTION
    
19. Name a game with "Mario" in the title.
    
    
    REVERSE SHEEP QUESTIONS
    
20. Name one of the cities where you can perform in Rock Band or Rock Band 2.
    
21. Name a PC game developed by id Software in the 80s or 90s.
    
22. Name a major MMO that has had over 150,000 active subscribers at one point. (Hint: More popular than Asheron's Call)
    
23. Name a usable, non-grenade weapon from Unreal or Unreal Tournament.
    
24. !!! Aside from The Sims, name a Maxis "Sim" game. (i.e. it has "Sim" in the title).
    
25. Name a game where you control a tank.
    
26. Name an arcade game from 1998 or later which had a subsequent home console port.
    
27. Name a point-and-click action RPG released from 1997 to 2004.
    
28. Name a game developed by Rare that does involve cute cartoon animals.
    
29. !!! Name an athlete who has appeared on the cover of a console game.
    
30. Name a game released on the Neo Geo AES home console.
    
31. Name a released or announced game by Insomniac Games.
    
32. Fill in the blank for this game title. Where in _________ is Carmen Sandiego?
    
33. Name a non-Nintendo hand-held system released anywhere in the world.
    
34. Name a game set in the Old West.
    
35. Name a real-world golf course playable in any golf game.
    
36. !!! From Super Mario Bros to Super Mario World, Mario had many upgrades available to him that changed his appearance and/or the gameplay of the character. Name one of them.
    
37. Name an NES game which used the standard diagonal-text black cover (like these).
    

Answers are due by Sunday, April 5th at 11:59PM EDT

<hr>

I'll also need a volunteer whom I can PM my answers, as I'll be playing as well.

You may PM me, but I will count off for spelling errors.

Excitement!

The toss up is

is #4 worldwide sales?

Also, as #4 says "finished" I assume that this generation doesn't count?

Correct on both, orangecrush.

With math like that, this round will be more luck than anything.

#19 is just wrong.

PC games allowed this time too, interesting.

Yay PC games!

Sweet. Nice variety of questions, though I suck at the PC ones. I'll just have to shoot for finishing in the middle of the pack yet again. Thanks for putting another one together Bus.

Explain this one to me. What does the '/' indicate? The way the question reads is anyone not in a game qualifies as long as they are still breathing. With the addendum it sounds like you specifically want an artist that is still active as well. Sooo... which is it, active or not? Does said group still have to be together?

Crap! I misread the Rock Band/Guitar Hero question as being an artist who HAD appeared. Are we allowed to change answers once we've submitted them?

I read it as active.

Now define "active". Touring? Putting out new music? Not a recluse?

Tupac and Elvis and Kurt and Janis and Morrison are all dead, but selling records. Are they active, just not alive?

Exactly. I'm trying to come up with my next "China"town Wars answer.

It says right next to the question in small print:
I will consider "active" meaning they still tour and record new material.

Examples of living, actively touring, actively recording artists:

Fall Out Boy
Maximo Park
Weezer
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The only problem with all of the above artists is that they have appeared in Rock Band.

So essentially the '/' doesn't belong in the question and should read:

Name a still-living active musician or group...

PC games are easier for Sheep questions because there's such a wide variety of them. For Reverse Sheep questions, you really have to "rope in" the possible answers and it can't be very open-ended.

I don't think it's that big of a problem, given how many questions we've had specific to Goldeneye or Halo. I have some silly ideas for questions, but it's my fault for not messaging you them in the previous thread asking for ideas.

I like the "name a non-Diablo 2 hack-n-slash game you never played because you were too busy playing Diablo 2" question.

25) Name a game where you control a tank.

Does this have to be a game where you exclusively control a tank?

And since its between 97-04 you can't choose Fate