Quiz game released by Taito for the Arcade (1990) and Super Famicom (1992). The game features teen idol Yukiko Iwai (the eponymous Yuuyu) both in the game and on the cover. Yuuyu no Quiz de Go! Go! is a quiz game from Taito that uses the likeness of teen idol Yukiko "Yuuyu" Iwai. The player answers questions on various topics from anime to politics to score points, making sure not to accrue too many wrong answers. Success is based on a percentage rather than a quota: in order to pass a round with a requirement of 60, the player has to correctly answer three out of every five questions (or better). Yuuyu was a member of the idol group Onyanko (Kitten) Club, which were hugely popular in Japan during the late 80s. She emcees the in-game quiz show via digitized photos and voice samples, introducing the many rounds and frequently chanting "Go! Go!".
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Starring idol Yukiko Iwai and appropriating a sort of faux-Indian game show aesthetic, Yuuyu no Quiz is a bright, energetic, joyous experience, bursting with personality from every inch. Text that looks crayon drawn, expressive chibi sprites, high quality voices and wonderfully animated real photos...the last thing Yuuyu wants is for you to feel bad, even when you completely bomb.
The questions and answers themselves start much easier than those found in its contemporaries and have been playfully crafted, filled with jokes and slang. They is also, in a first for the genre, a picture based category that provides colorful illustrations for you to identify. And instead of the traditional lifebar system, here rounds are battles of percentages, where you can run through as many questions as you want as long as your percent correct is higher than whatever the CPU asks. This leads to a great propulsion to rounds, a constant push and pull of answering as many as you can without pushing your luck too hard.
Of course, bonus round minigames are also present to provide the brain a little break and a chance for quirky items to help out when you dive back in.
It all makes for a simply fantastic experience; addicting, mood lifting, and full in a way arcade quiz games had yet to see.