Party Quiz Mega Q

Party Quiz Mega Q
Party Quiz Mega Q
Developer(s)	Sega
Publisher(s)	Sega
Composer(s)	Hirofumi Murasaki
Platform(s)	Mega Drive
Release	JP: 5 November 1993;
Genre(s)	Quiz game
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Party Quiz Mega Q^[a] is a quiz video game developed and published by Sega, which released for the Mega Drive in Japan in 1993. Players participate in a television quiz programme, answering questions in rounds of differing rules, earning or losing points along the way. Up to five players are supported, and the game was released on the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console in 2007. In 2014, the soundtrack was released on the Mega Drive 25th Anniversary Album Vol.1 album.

Gameplay[]

A typical game in progress

The game plays like a real television quiz programme: five contestants compete against each other in rounds of various quiz modes,^[2] and up to five players can play simultaneously using the Mega Drive's Multiplayer Adaptor.^[3] In each mode, points are awarded for answering questions correctly, and deducted for answering incorrectly. Quiz modes include (although are not limited to) the Bet Quiz, where the contestants place bets before a question, and the Genre Selection Quiz, where a genre is chosen and a question of that genre is posed (each time a genre is selected, the point stake is increased). The programme features advert breaks during which Sega products are advertised.^[4] The winner plays the Time Attack Quiz, where questions are answered within a time limit to "win" prizes.^[5] There is also a free play mode where players can practise quiz types without playing in the programme.^[4]

Legacy[]

Party Quiz Mega Q was released on the Virtual Console in Japan on 18 December 2007.^[6] The soundtrack, composed by Hirofumi Murasaki, was released on the Mega Drive 25th Anniversary Album Vol.1 album in Japan in July 2014.^[7]

References[]

^ "セガハード大百科メガドライブ対応ソフトウェア（セガ発売）" [Sega Hardware Encyclopaedia Mega Drive Software (Sega releases)]. Sega (in Japanese). Sega. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
^ メガドライブ大全増補改訂版 Mega Doraibu Taizen Zouhokaiteiban [Mega Drive Encyclopaedia enlarged and revised edition] (in Japanese). Tokyo. 2015. p. 191. ISBN 978-4-7783-1442-2.
^ "パーティークイズMEGA Q　（セガ）" [Party Quiz Mega Q (Sega)]. BEメガ読者レース. Beep! MegaDrive (in Japanese). Tokyo: SoftBank. May 1994. p. 23.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "パーティークイズ　MEGA Q" [Party Quiz Mega Q]. メガドライブFAN (in Japanese). Vol. 45. Tokumashoten Intermedia. November 1993. pp. 80, 81.
^ Sega (1993). パーティークイズMEGAQ　取扱説明書 Pātī Kuizu Mega Kyu Toriatsukaisetsumeisho [Party Quiz Mega Q Instruction Manual] (in Japanese). Sega. p. 32.
^ "パーティクイズ MEGA Q" [Party Quiz Mega Q]. Wii mk2 (in Japanese). Retrieved 26 September 2016.
^ "CD「MEGA DRIVE 25th Anniversary Album Vol.1」7月2日にリリース！" [CD "MEGA DRIVE 25th Anniversary Album Vol.1" to be released on 2 July!]. GAME Watch (in Japanese). 17 June 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2016.