Old arcade games don't actually save high scores permanently, they're just kept in RAM and get wiped when the cabinet is powered off.

Ever gone to an arcade, looked at the top scores on a cabinet, and felt this sense of mystique and wonderment as you read the top player's initials? Wondering what kind of life that led this outcast of society to the pursuit of gaming greatness? Imagining the atmosphere of the venue as this anonymous soul unleashed the culmination of hundreds of coins and thousands of hours spent travelling and playing into the apparatus of wood and acrylic that now befalls you?

Turns out it was just a slightly drunk dude who came in with his co-workers yesterday, putting in some quarters for fun. And the score isn't even that great.

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devtesla wrote on April 27, 2018 at 7:51 PM

there's something really sad to me about a high score being wiped every time the cabinet is powered off. so many ASS, lost to time, like tears in rain...

hollyhoppet wrote on April 27, 2018 at 8:31 PM

But in a sense it is also an opportunity for more ASS... 🤔

mm_ wrote on April 28, 2018 at 12:31 AM

koans of late capital

hollyhoppet wrote on April 28, 2018 at 1:36 AM

As a practitioner of Zen Buddhism it makes me kind of uncomfortable when people appropriate koans like that because it strips away their spiritual significance :/

mm_ wrote on April 28, 2018 at 2:02 AM

sorry, that makes sense

hollyhoppet wrote on April 28, 2018 at 2:43 AM

Thanks, no worries <3

Presidential_Afro wrote on April 27, 2018 at 7:59 PM (edited on April 27, 2018 at 8:00 PM)

this is actually mildly upsetting to me

mm_ wrote on April 27, 2018 at 7:53 PM

damn