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Arcade & Classic Games · 90

A score display gives failure a souvenir. The run ends, but the number remains as evidence that the next coin has a target. The history behind the category adds another layer. Galaga let captured fighters become part of the player's strategy: rescuing one could create a more powerful dual-fighter formation at the cost of a larger target. A continue screen is thirty seconds of negotiation between pride, curiosity and another coin.

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Q*bert debuted in 1982 with a pyramid of cubes drawn in a pseudo-3D perspective. Its title character even swore in a made-up symbol language when things went wrong, decades before emoji made that sort of thing feel normal. Meanwhile, this bit of history is hard to resist: NBA Jam exploded into arcades in 1993 with exaggerated dunks, two-on-two basketball and the famous 'on fire' state after consecutive baskets. Realism was invited, but spectacle got the better seat.