Talk:Score (video games)

Image copyright problem with Image:NES Mega Man.png

The image Image:NES Mega Man.png is used in this article under a claim of fair use, but it does not have an adequate explanation for why it meets the requirements for such images when used here. In particular, for each page the image is used on, it must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Please check

• That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for the use in this article.
• That this article is linked to from the image description page.

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --02:27, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Link dump

I'm going to dump all these links here - they were listed in the original article.

• Record try aborted in video game - Arizona Republic, March 9, 1982
• 1-token spree sets record at video game - Charlotte News, Charlotte, NC, September 9, 1982
• Man could crunch U.S. Pac-Man record - Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC, July 17, 1982
• Video game enthusiast gets highest score ever - Kansas City Times, August 18, 1982
• Video champ blasts his way into record book - San Francisco Examiner, September 6, 1982
• Resident saves earth, claims world record - Chapel Hill News, Chapel Hill, NC, November 10, 1982
• Texas gamer works toward high score - Abilene Reporter-News, Abilene, TX, November 12, 1982
• Central student one to beat playing Defender - Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, Cheyenne, WY, December 18, 1982
• Video game champ gets recognition - St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL, December 31, 1982
• Contests offer players tokens, recognition - Dallas Morning News, January 15, 1983
• Video Game champion vows he'll never play again - Syracuse Herald-Journal, January 17, 1983
• Videogame records - USA Today, April 22, 1983
• Pac-Man Record? - Washington Post, Washington D.C., May 26, 1983
• Teenager going for video game record - Dublin Courier-Herald, Dublin, GA, June 22, 1983
• Records, like promises, are not always meant to be broken - USA Today, July 7, 1983
• Competitors' lives filled with joysticks - Wilmington Morning Star, Wilmington, NC, June 30, 1984

--_{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 05:34, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Split into two articles

I suggest we split portions of this article into a new article titled Score (sport). I think we should differentiate between scoring in sport and scoring in games. Moreover, this article seems to be dominated by video games, to the exclusion of board games, role-playing games, strategy games (eg - backgammon), and others. The coverage of sport-related scoring is skimpy, but a separate article could help improve the situation. I'd be willing to perform the split (moving the "Sport" section out of this one) and expand the new article somewhat. Mindmatrix 01:22, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

I've moved portions of this article to Score (sport). Mindmatrix 13:43, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Hello! I'm new to wiki but I was wondering if you could explain a bit more about why this article was split. It seems wrong to me that there are two separate articles for the same concept... especially when some "games"(ie chess) are also considered to be sports and vice versa... and the use of a scoring system doesn't really differentiate sports from games. I guess I just don't understand why that distinction is useful here. Thanks for any clarification you can provide:) OilyDoily (talk) 19:19, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

"Football" -> "Association football"

I've changed a reference to "football" to link to "association football" instead. The reason is the article for football describes all games named football in general, as well as their common points, whereas the "football" the original editor was referring to was most likely association football (or soccer as it's known in the US). 50.46.192.36 (talk) 02:54, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 external links on Score (game). Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20071021155526/http://www.twingalaxies.com/images/generalinfo/poster_frogger_reward_600.jpg to http://www.twingalaxies.com/images/generalinfo/poster_frogger_reward_600.jpg
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080328112858/http://www.twingalaxies.com:80/index.aspx?c=19&id=1191 to http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=19&id=1191

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 07:33, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

article focuses on high score

Since moving some content to Score (sports), the remainder of this article seems to focus just on high scores in video games. I suggest either adding content related to board games and other games, renaming to score (video games) and adding more info about scores in general in games, or renaming to High Score Edetone (talk) 20:52, 25 November 2021 (UTC)