Global High Score Lists

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High score lists that can be accessed by anybody playing a game.

While high score lists where introduced with Space Invaders and followed by many other Arcade Games, these lists which specific for each arcade machine. With the spread of the internet and personal computers however, games could be made the uploaded results to a central server and thereby creating Global High Score Lists where players could compared themselves with all other people who had played the game.

Examples

Bejeweled Blitz, Combine, and Drop 7 all allow players to let their high scores be visible by all other players of the game through uploading the results through the internet.

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Extra-Game Consequences, Massively Single-Player Online Games, Meta Games, Public Player Statistics

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High Score Lists

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New pattern created in this wiki.

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