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Arcade Authorship – High Score Table Credits
- nickt 3y agoWhen I was a kid, I thought AAA was a legend.
- emodendroket 3y agoIt’s funny to think that these authors were not thought to be worthy of crediting and 40 years later people still care enough about the games to try and figure through cryptic hints. I doubt any software I’ve worked on will stay relevant that long.
- joezydeco 3y agoThey were certainly worthy... but they were also the geese laying the golden eggs. The management didn't want their best designers and programmers poached by the competition so names were not made public. There were groups that figured this out, though, and quit to form their own design companies. Most famously the Activision team and the Vid Kidz.
- alberth 3y agoSeinfeld George wanting to perserve his Frogger top score https://youtu.be/5etwHVarNgI https://youtu.be/5etwHVarNgI
- joezydeco 3y agoFunny part is that the original Frogger didn't have a high score table. But someone wrote new code to add it. https://www.jrok.com/sohs/frogger/frogger.html https://www.jrok.com/sohs/frogger/frogger.html