Video game high scores
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:00 pm
Why do they have high scores in video games anyway? What's the significance?
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:29 pm
To gloat.
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:39 pm
You mean so they could feel more above other people?Siren wrote:To gloat.
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:03 pm
Well that is why the high score is on top, you are above the other people, quite literallyBig Disney Fan wrote: You mean so they could feel more above other people?
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:20 pm
Yeah, well, I just ignore the scores and play only to get to the end and defeat the game itself, not other people who played the game before I did. The only thing a score is good for is to (sometimes, but not always) allow you an extra life.Mr. Toad wrote:Well that is why the high score is on top, you are above the other people, quite literallyBig Disney Fan wrote: You mean so they could feel more above other people?
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:40 pm
Watch The Last Starfighter and then you'll understand why high scores are critical.
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:40 am
But why do people feel the need to gloat about high scores? That would sort of be a good way to lose friends, wouldn't it?
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:29 pm
High scores should be just for fun. 
And it doesn't matter how high your score was, but how much you enjoyed the game. It's not something to take seriously.
And it doesn't matter how high your score was, but how much you enjoyed the game. It's not something to take seriously.Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:16 pm
High scores give you another goal to shoot for. This was especially important in the NES era. Many games, such as Tetris, had no real ending. You couldn't say you "beat the game," but the high score was a benchmark of how good you were.