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Entering your initials beside a high score was popularised by which game?

High Scores & Cabinet Culture

10 questions · medium · Trivia quiz · Arcade Classics

The culture shelf: score itself was the first competition, initials were the first identity, and one famous story about a coin shortage is a legend, labelled here as one because this site labels legends. Ten questions on how these cabinets were actually played, fed, and argued over, with verified scores stated neutrally and dated, and nobody's disputes anywhere near them.

Questions in this quiz

  1. Entering your initials beside a high score was popularised by which game?
  2. The famous story that Space Invaders caused a shortage of 100-yen coins in Japan has what status?
  3. Gauntlet bends the arcade business model because of which design?
  4. Fixed routes that clear Pac-Man levels safely exist because of what property of the ghosts?
  5. A perfect Pac-Man game requires maximum scoring across how many ordinary levels before the kill screen?
  6. In December 2023, a player triggered the first documented human-caused crash of which version of Tetris?
  7. That NES Tetris crash happened at which level?
  8. Which game in this catalogue is the vector-display one, its rivals being raster?
  9. Gauntlet's four heroes differ in which set of stats?
  10. The golden-age games in this catalogue are structured as what, rather than stories with endings?

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