Does Not Illustrate: Pinball Scoring

The trope is "excessively long score", not "numbers... numbers everywhere", hence this image (confusing as it is) doesn't illustrate the trope.

Better example, one◊ or two◊. That's clearer, if anything.

I'd like a better image. There's way to much going on here to tell what's going on. 1.1 is not clear at all. 1.2 is better, but I'd like something that shows the points as they occur:
1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000, 10000, 100000, 1000000!
Something like that.

edited 16th May '13 4:04:49 PM by Rethkir

1.1 is barely legible, but 1.2 is good. An actual gameplay scene would be a bonus, but it has the huge number which is what the trope is all about. It's certainly better than the current.

Agreed.
Not a videogame exaple, but this video is a pretty funny case with those ridiculous combos.

edited 16th May '13 4:42:48 PM by Rethkir

I say this◊ would work.

4.088 billion damage for 4 hits?

As long as looks good at wiki size, I'm good with it.

Bump...in , the text isn't very clear at wiki size. This is better (at 350):

edited 21st May '13 6:14:34 PM by Willbyr

Didn't we use to have an image somewhere from a game showing like a million bajillion points?

I recall we used to have an image from Giga Wing showing a score with over a dozen digits. I have no idea why it was changed.

Edit: Found the original one.◊

edited 8th Jun '13 12:44:35 AM by PoochyEXE

I like that. Numbers all over the place.

edited 8th Jun '13 12:58:56 AM by rodneyAnonymous

I wish we could find a photograph of a pinball backboard showing how many points each target, bumper, etc scores. They usually start with 10 points then jump to 20, 30, 50 and so on. We could then have a caption "What happened to 1-9, 11-19, 21-29, 31-49...?"

9's not bad, but I prefer the fighting game pic.

7's not bad, but I prefer the Shoot 'Em Up pic. The numbers are more in focus and easier to read.

I'd like a zoomed crop of 7. There's not enough focus on the number, what with the explosion and giant robot going on on the other side. A zoomed in version with that cut out would be more clear.

edited 10th Jun '13 8:10:50 AM by Rethkir

How's this?

That's a lot better. Which to me puts it at about equal to the other one. Either is fine.

15 is acceptable to me.

It could be better, but 15 is good enough for a from me.

Still lean towards the Giga Wing one.

Crowner's hooked. I'm not where I can look at links right now, so if someone can beef up the description for 1.2, that'd be appreciated.

Pre-weekend bump for votes.

One week after the last bump, is this the best we're going to get, and if so, is it a strong enough result to act on?

Much too close.

It's not close any more.

This is beyond ready to call. The new pic is up (and cropped and resized as it was over the size limit), potholed, and tagged. Caption or no?