This has already happened in one way for many years, in emulators/simulators of pinball games. The Pinball Arcade does this, and has its own leaderboards for t

This has already happened in one way for many years, in emulators/simulators of pinball games. The Pinball Arcade does this, and has its own leaderboards for the achievements. It works by monitoring the internals of the pinball computer emulation, either looking directly at the RAM for cases where the memory locations are known, or at the display output for alphanumeric or dot matrix patterns that announce a particular event such as a jackpot or multiball or wizard mode.