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| oldgamerz:
Vary old games used to have you accumulate points depending on how you perform usually. an arcade port of something, a scoring system, Do you care about getting a high score? or even bother to put in initials into your consoles save state, At A game over screen? I don't see the appeal because it's only me looking at the system. but I'm thinking about actually caring about points in those games. I got nobody to show them to, so I'm kinda in the meh category, for the most part I really didn't care about getting a high score in most games I've played. But I know some of those old 1980's and 1990's games give out continues and extra lives for getting the best score so, what is your opinion on this subject? I could imagine it would be something special in a family or large gaming group that are vary close in relationship and friendship though. But not so good in the modern day isolation. |
| tripredacus:
It does for pinball. https://pinside.com/pinball/community/pinsiders/tripredacus/scores |
| sworddude:
For retrogames such as pacman, donkeykong or final fight it matters allot. Entirely different beast compared to speedrunning In way more challenging than speedrunning since you need to maximize your points with weak moves while never losing lives. being crazy good at avoiding patterns while taking all opportunities in trash situations to gain the maximum score if where talking say the final fight example You generally don't abuse stuff for cheesy kills since you'll get less score as a result you actually have to play the game instead of what some glitches do for speedrunning in some games. |
| snyderec3:
Considering there are lawsuits happening over Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong scores, I'd say some people definitely make a big deal of it. |
| bikingjahuty:
I've never been a high score chaser, ever. Sure, it was always cool when I accidentally ranked on some arcade machine growing up, however it was never something I strived for and still to this day don't really care about. With that said, I'm not one for achievements in games either, which I see as being the modern equivalent to high score. I just enjoy playing every game the way I want to regardless of how good or bad my score is. |
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