Fans debate whether the Frogger arcade game shown in the episode accurately depicted high score storage and display, with discussion of whether the scores were ordered correctly on screen.
[email] (Adam Sena) writes:
In my teen years I was on the high score list for several games in Tucson and I seem to remember being on the lists for awhile. We definitely had power outages during summer monsoon season which I thought I remember my scores transcending. The games had some sort of permanent storage mechanism to hold the programs which ran the game. Is there anyone out there with definitive knowledge of the inner workings of 80s-era video games?
I believe if you look at that episode and freeze-frame the scores, they're not in the right order (high score on top of screen down to lower score on bottom). Anyone else notice that, or am I nuts?
You're nuts. Frank
bradley young wrote:
I checked this out and the scores are not in the correct order. Having said that, this still doesn't convince me of your sanity.
Brian (TOETOD)
"Well let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly..."
Nope. No nuts at all. In fact, some of the scores repeat themselves and there are lower numbers towards the top. Back when the episode first aired, I posted the entire top ten list but nobody paid it much attention.
If you don't mind, post the whole thing. I'm still wondering who some
of the initials were supposed to represent.
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------------------------------------------------------------"Eric Perlin" writes: >
Eric: Your criticism of the people inquistive about the scores in "The Frogger" was quite a poor showing. "WHO CARES!" you ask? Many of us are curious as to the trivial and inane regarding our favorite show. You comment that Seinfeld is not a documentary and is entitled to creative license, and therefore we shouldn't question the real life accuracy of any given point. "The Frogger" episode brought up an interesting technical question and many people were curious as to what the answer was. People were just curious, that's all. If we found out that the scores could not have been erased we weren't going to declare the episode unretrievably flawed. We here in the NG understand that it is just a show and not real life, but that hardly means that we don't think its interesting to question situations on the show and their applicability to how things work in real life. Sure, such a technical question may have been one of the less significant aspects of the show and maybe a silly question, but some of us found it interesting since the premise of the show was centered around it. This IS the NG and the type of things that are discussed in it are all the large and small topics anyone (or two) find interesting. If you have something to add to the NG then please do, but leave the sweeping criticism of open-forum discussion elsewhere.