They even used to have competitions in various magazines like Nintendo Power in the 80s and 90s for games like Sonic, where you could win prizes if you took a photo of your TV with the highest score for a specific game.īack then, people didn't have access to things like Photoshop, so a simple photograph was enough to convince a panel of judges. Especially as many early video games were actually ported popular arcade titles. So naturally when video games started getting popular on home consoles, it felt only natural to carry it over. They were a holdover from the rise of the arcade just a few years before home consoles really took off on any substantial level, where it was bragging rights to be at the top of the "INSERT COIN" scoreboard for the day. Like Xaionik says Score wasn't irrelevant before it was possible to save your game and before 3D/pre-internet video-gaming.īack then, with no way to save your game, many games were more about getting a high score and showing off to your friends. the issues with scoring make this kinda irrelevant. 32000 points?!?! I mean, wow, that's cool and all because I had to "lap over" the emerald and reach it again, but. Normally without hitting "bonus" once, you get 2000 points. Either fix the concept or put it properly under some grave and get over it.Įdit: I went through an emerald stage and milked orbs.
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Score on the screen is like the dead horse that gets dragged around because you like looking at horses. Meanwhile "going fast" is emphasized even more to the point of doing things that are counter-intuitive to scoring, like getting intentionally hit to lose a flawsless cool bonus for the sake of finishing the boss fast (a strategy that could be valid if you were to gain time which then converted to points outweight the loss of 1k from cool bonus). You can even milk your lives (and make more live while milking them).
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You can "quit and exit" to start over a world and milk the act 1 of any world multiple times (requires save mode). You can farm the rotating sign at the end of each stage for points.