Bakuretsu Quiz Ma-Q Dai-Bouken/Walkthrough

Namco's Japan-only 1992 quiz arcade game Bakuretsu Quiz Ma-Q Dai-Bouken is divided into five areas, each one comprised of several stages; in each stage, you will have to answer a preset number of (three-script Japanese) questions correctly in order to help advance Scott (or Stanley) to the next one. When you answer a question correctly, a yellow "O" will appear next to your chosen number and the amount of time you have remaining will be added to your score, as your character's situation at the bottom of the screen improves - but if you answer a question incorrectly, a red "X" will appear next to your chosen number and your character will lose a "life-heart", as his situation at the bottom of the screen worsens. The introductory cutscene will go like this:

3ケの宝石をつけると、 何でも望みがひとつだけ叶うという伝説の冠 (3 ke no hōseki wo tsukeru to, nani demo nozomi ga hitotsu dake kanau to iu densetsu no kanmuri)



この冠を探し求める2人の探検家スコット&スタンリー (Kono kanmuri wo sagashimotomeru 2-ri no tanken-ka Sukotto & Sutanrī)



2人はガイドを雇い、宝冠があるという村に旅立ちました (2-ri ha gaido wo yatoi, hōkan ga aru to iu mura ni tabidachimashita)



「ここがその村です」 「何が様が変だな」 ('Koko ga sono muradesu') ('Nani ga-sama ga hendana')



「お前ら、何者だ」 ('Omaera, nanimonoda')



The game will then start, as the Katakana text Sutēji 1, noruma 3 (ステージ1, ノルマ3) appears at the top of the screen, while Scott and Stanley appear in a situation with three machete-wielding Zako-Hei (written in Katakana and Kanji as ザコ兵) at the bottom of the screen; their leader is depicted in the last of the five screenshots shown above, and you will have to answer three questions correctly if you wish to eliminate them all and go on to that next stage. Most of the questions in this game have four possible answers, but the other ones only have three or two - and some of them have 15-puzzle and sliding pictures above them, while the bosses pose true-or-false time trials in which you will have to answer as many questions as you can correctly in a minute.