>> Other scores did other things, including opening all of the levels to the end game (that was a fun week when that leaked, all of the high score boards all over town were wrecked).
Kind of crazy to think one of the coolest things back in the day was battling other unknown or sometimes known teenagers for the highest scores on video games in arcades. I remember being really good at Pengo at one of the local pizza joints that my cousins loved going to. I remember saving as many quarters as possible as an 11 year old to make sure I could hold that high score until we came back a few weeks later.
Kind of crazy to think one of the coolest things back in the day was battling other unknown or sometimes known teenagers for the highest scores on video games in arcades. I remember being really good at Pengo at one of the local pizza joints that my cousins loved going to. I remember saving as many quarters as possible as an 11 year old to make sure I could hold that high score until we came back a few weeks later.