''QuizQuiz'' ( ko, 퀴즈퀴즈), also known as ''Quiz Quiz'', was a
massively multiplayer online
A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players, often hundreds or thousands, on the same server. MMOs usually feature a huge, persistent open world, although there are ...
(MMO)
quiz
A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which players attempt to answer questions correctly on one or several specific topics. Quizzes can be used as a brief Educational assessment, assessment in education and similar fields to measure growth ...
video game created by
Nexon
Nexon Co., Ltd. is a global video game publisher, listed in Japan, that specializes in online Virtual World games for PCs, consoles and mobile. Nexon is one of the world’s ten largest interactive game companies based on market capitalization a ...
which used a
super deformed
Chibi, also known as super deformation, or S.D. is a style of caricature originating in Japan, and common in anime and manga where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby with stubby limbs, oversized heads, and m ...
type
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
graphical style to portray the players and the few environments or
non-player characters
A non-player character (NPC), or non-playable character, is any character in a game that is not controlled by a player. The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster o ...
(NPCs) it contained. The game was released as a free beta download off of the
Nexon Inc. website but was later discontinued in
North America
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due to low playerbase. Released in 1999, it was one of the first
free-to-play
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games using a
microtransaction
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revenue model.
The game remained available in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
,
Japan
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, and
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
but the Singapore and Japan servers were later shut down as well in December 2004.
General gameplay
After signing up and logging in, players would be redirected to a lobby, where they could chat (limited, a more full-featured chat was available in player-created
chat room
The term chat room, or chatroom (and sometimes group chat; abbreviated as GC), is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. The term can thus mean any technology, ranging from ...
s) with other online players and view the currently open games. The games all were trivia-oriented or puzzle games such as ''
Reversi
Reversi is a strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. It was invented in 1883. Othello, a variant with a fixed initial setup of the board, was patented in 1971.
Basics
There are sixty-four identical game pieces ...
''. Once the game they wished to play was open, all interested players could join the game by clicking on its button. Games supported anywhere between two and thirty-two players. Players were rewarded for doing well in the games with an in-game currency which they could use to buy items and clothes for their characters. Most items did nothing but make your
avatar
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look good and show how smart you are, thus allowing you to gain the respect of other players. Other items, however, powered you up in some of the games, such as sunglasses in the true-false game. A player's overall score in the games was measured by an
IQ meter. Most items required a certain IQ score to be attained before the player was allowed to purchase that item.
Games
''Note: None of the names may be accurate, this is due to the lack of a current English website.''
Several games were available in ''QuizQuiz'', most of them involving trivia or puzzle elements. Several versions of the games were available.
Survival Olla Olla Game
The Survival Olla Olla Game consisted of nine players all lined up in buckets hanging over a body of water containing
crocodile
Crocodiles (family (biology), family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to inclu ...
s for the trivia game, or
shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimo ...
s for the typing game. The buckets would all start in the middle of the screen and when the game began. In the trivia game, multiple choice questions would be asked by the server and would be answered by the players using the function keys (f1-f4). If a player got the question right, his or her bucket would be raised, otherwise, it would be lowered. If the player's bucket reached the water, that player would be eliminated and booted back to the lobby with a slight IQ deduction. If a player reached the top, that player would be considered the winner, in some versions, if nobody reached the top, the last player alive would win. The winner would gain IQ. The game would continue until all players had either reached the top or the bottom. Players would often share the answers with each other in an effort for all players to gain IQ. There would also be an incentive for players who know the right answers to give false answers on purpose so as to cause other players to fall. The typing game had pretty much the same concept, except instead of answering trivia questions, a sentence would be shown on the screen and the players would compete to see who could type it out the fastest. If you have a typing error in your sentence, your bucket would drop. If you type the sentence correct, your bucket would rise. The person who types the sentence the fastest will see their buckets rise faster than the others.
Survival OX
In ''OX'', thirty-two players would enter a large board as small lingt-blue bubble avatars. The board would have a large ''X'' on one side and a large ''O'' on the other. After a time the game would begin, whether thirty-two players were present or not. 'True or False' questions would be asked and players would need to click on the side they wished to go to, ''X'' for false and ''O'' for true. Certain items would allow your avatar to move much faster, allowing last minute decisions, or more commonly, switch answers at the last minute fooling other players. Newer players would often follow other players who took the initiative to move first, so faster and crueler players would purposely fool the newbies for fun. An alternate version was available where the opposite answer must be selected, called ''XO''. In this version, the board was halloween themed and evil laughter could be heard at the start of the game.
Virus
''Virus'' was a game very similar to ''
Reversi
Reversi is a strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. It was invented in 1883. Othello, a variant with a fixed initial setup of the board, was patented in 1971.
Basics
There are sixty-four identical game pieces ...
'' or ''
Ataxx
''Ataxx'' (アタックス) is a strategy video game published in arcades by Leland Corporation in 1990. Two players compete on a seven-by-seven square grid. The object of the game is for a player to have a majority of the pieces on the board at ...
'' where four players, two on each team would face off, taking turns with their teammate to outwit the other team. Players could chat privately with their teammate or publicly with the everyone.
MediaMedia Gameshow
In a game which looked very similar to a ''
StarCraft
''StarCraft'' is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and owned by Blizzard Entertainment. The series, set in the beginning of the 26th century, centers on a galactic struggle for dominance am ...
'' themed ''
Jeopardy!
''Jeopardy!'' is an American game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given genera ...
'' stage, three players would stand behind podiums which were themed like the
Terran,
Protoss
Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game series ''StarCraft'' revolves around interstellar affairs in a distant sector of the galaxy, with three species and multiple factions all vying for supremacy in the sector. The playable species of ...
, and
Zerg
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HUD
Hud or HUD may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Hud'' (1963 film), a 1963 film starring Paul Newman
* ''Hud'' (1986 film), a 1986 Norwegian film
* ''HUD'' (TV program), or ''Heads Up Daily'', a Canadian e-sports television program
Places
* Hud, Fa ...
s in ''StarCraft'' and be asked questions about computer and video games of all genres from all eras.
Love Love
Another game which was on it was LoveLove, which was a dating game where users would be put with someone who they voted for, and when that was over the user would start quizzes.
QuizQuiz North American Community
Contrary to Nexon's assessment that the player base of the North American beta version was low, there was in fact a large community surrounding the game that mostly resembled a clique structure. Like many other massively multiplayer games, clans were formed in QuizQuiz. Unlike other games where clans are used as a way to obtain people to hunt with or gain experience with, clans in the North American version of QuizQuiz were social hubs where a newcomer to the game could meet new people and chat. This is due to QuizQuiz's large social component and relatively weak gaming component. In the heyday of QQ North America there were many clans, notably:
* PABM (Pink And Blue Mentos, QQ's first clan
* The Super Squirtle Squad
* Tang Bang Calao
* Team Rocket
* Legendary 7
* Legendary Birds
The majority of the clan websites are no longer online. There was also a Petition (aptly called "Petition Petition"
that had upwards of 500 people sign to get Nexon to add new features / maintain the North American version.
Aftermath
''QuizQuiz'' has evolved into the Korean online game ''Q-Play'' and has been dropped from all servers outside of South Korea. The Japanese version of ''QuizQuiz'', which remained very similar to the North American beta version, was dropped December 14, 2004.
The character sprites were later put into a Nintendo DS game called ''Ping Pals''. This game allowed users to purchase clothes similar to the way clothes are collected in ''QuizQuiz''.
QuizQuiz R
On April 21, 2011, Nexon Korea made a CBT for QuizQuizR that lasted until May 19, 2011.
It featured a new mode and made a raffle for real life games (
Blue Marble Game, HalliGalli Game and 2 more prizes) if you did tasks while it lasted.
References
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External links
Korean Nexon websiteQuizQuizR CBT Event BannerKorean Q-Play websiteJapanese QuizQuiz website
1999 video games
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
Quiz video games
Nexon games
Video games developed in South Korea
Inactive massively multiplayer online games