High Score

It infuriated me because I should not only have won but had the weekly high-score in the 14-team Yahoo Friends and Family League, but for Johnson's late TD. ❋ Christopher Liss (2010)

Reince Priebus has the high-score on the Alien Versus Predator game at the Chuck E. ❋ Erik Wennermark (2011)

It then provided links to careers associated with these areas, noting that we'd be happiest in jobs reflective of our high-score categories, which for us were "artistic" and "social." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Strategic defaults - walkaways - by high-score borrowers also have been an unexpected and shocking development, she said. ❋ Kenneth R. Harney (2010)

George would not have risked life and limb carrying an Frogger arcade game across the street if he were able to reach into his pocket and brag about his 860,630 high-score he made on his 99-cent Frogger app. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Experience points are tracked both as weekly high-score charts, and as ongoing character sheets - every time you rack up 200XP of chores, your character gains a "level", and their class changes to match the type of chores that they've been doing. ❋ Unknown (2007)

More often, I'll cozy up to the pole in the opposing vestibule, Blackberry in hand and attempting to break my high-score on BrickBreaker. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When I played a game in college, my tag was a high-score initialism "FOO". ❋ Unknown (2007)

I got the fifth-place high-score, and didn't even care that I couldn't put my initials into the game. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Your initials, "XTC," sit atop virtually every high-score list in the building. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Who would buy a saved game of Civilization III with a big high-score? ❋ Unknown (2004)

OK, so I tried New York Defender as well as Gonzalo's Kabul Kaboom, and while Kabul Kaboom is more of a social commentary, New York Defender is more playable at least in my opinion - basically because it shows a high-score list. ❋ Torill (2001)

That doesn't help much when the games depend on for instance spatial perception in flight-simulators and first-person shooters or single-minded pursuit of a position on the high-score list. ❋ Torill (2001)

And while I sat there, not feelin 'just like a high-score gun-captain after target-practice, I hears a light step behind me, and pretty soon I could feel an eye looking me over, and by'n'by a voice said: "A ver-ry fine good morning, sir." ❋ Unknown (1912)