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Arcade & Classic Games · 48

Bonus fruit, ships, bells and other strange objects became score bait because a rare target gives players a reason to break their safe routine. The category's past supplies the companion fact: Frogger turned crossing a road into a perfect arcade premise by making every lane a moving timing puzzle with almost no explanation required. Three initials can contain an unreasonable amount of pride when they sit above everybody else's score.

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Dance Dance Revolution debuted in Japanese arcades in 1998 and replaced the joystick with a floor pad. Suddenly an arcade score could depend on footwork, stamina and whether the player was willing to dance in public. The rabbit hole keeps going: Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn videogame arcades into a mass phenomenon. Its descending rows of aliens created pressure with almost no story at all.