History Main / Every10000Points

* The classic ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series awarded extra lives for collecting 100 & 200 rings (but not 300+; later games where it was possible to collect that many rings would fix that), plus (starting with the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' when played on a Japanese Mega Drive) an extra life every 50,000 points (and, in ''Sonic 2'', a continue for earning over 10,000 points in bonuses in a single level).

Usually in games, the goal is to have the most points, in order to win. Yet when a game [[EndlessGame can go on indefinitely]], the goal is to get as many points as possible. This likely started with {{pinball}}, but is more famous for VideoGames, particularly [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames Golden Age]] video games and puzzle games like ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''.

* ''Ghost Pilots'' for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo awards an extra ship at 30,000 points and every 80,000 points after that.
* ''Guardic'' for the UsefulNotes/{{MSX}} gives an extra Guardic every 20,000 points. The jingle that plays when you get this is not the OneUp jingle familiar from other Creator/{{Compile}} games.

* ''UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch'' games would often reward you with EXTENDED PLAY by clearing your misses at certain score levels - if you had no misses at that point, you'd instead enter CHANCE TIME (earn double points until you did miss). Also, if the game consisted of action that constantly sped up, it would usually slow down at certain intervals.
* UsefulNotes/AtariST game ''VideoGame/TimeBandit'' (unrelated to the movie) starts you off with 15 lives, and you get another every 1000 points. However, your number of lives is capped at 16. You go through them ''fast''.

* ''Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em'', the pornographic UsefulNotes/Atari2600 game, gave an extra life for every 69 points.

* The original ''VideoGame/FZero'' in GP Mode gives you points every time you advance a lap based on your position and the lap number. Every 10,000 points, you get an extra chance to retry.

* In ''VideoGame/WonderBoyInMonsterLand'', you earn an extra HeartContainer every several thousand points. You're gonna need them, because of the timed health drain, and once you reach the final stage in the arcade version you can no longer use continues.

* The classic ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series awarded extra lives for collecting 100 & 200 rings (but not 300+; later games where it was possible to collect that many rings would fix that), plus (starting with the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'' when played on a Japanese Mega Drive) an extra life every 50,000 points (and, in ''Sonic 2'', a continue for earning over 10,000 points in bonuses in a single level).

* Some ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' games do this. Rarely evenly spaced though, given that scores tend to snowball.

* ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer'' gives you an extra life every 100,000 points.

** In the original ''VideoGame/StarFox'', scoring 10,000, 30,000 and 50,000 points earns you chances to continue playing should your game be over by losing all your lives!

Usually in games, the goal is to have the most points, in order to win. Yet when a game [[EndlessGame can go on indefinitely]], the goal is to get as many points as possible. This likely started with {{pinball}}, but is more famous for VideoGames, particularly [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames Golden Age]] video games and puzzle games like VideoGame/{{Tetris}}.

* Some ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' games do this. Rarely evenly spaced though, given that scores tend to snowball.

** For every 100,000 points you score in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'', you'll be given a chance to continue should your game be over by losing all your lives!

** In the original ''VideoGame/StarFox'', scoring 10,000, 30,000 and 50,000 points earns you chances to continue should your game be over by losing all your lives!

** The same happens in ''VideoGame/DragonNest''.

* The early ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games tended to follow the same pattern: on [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaI the first NES game]] you'd get your first extra life at 30,000 points and each subsequent extra life for every 50,000 points afterward. The game had a ton of hidden treasures worth a lot of points to help you in this task, including one before you even enter the castle, and one level even contained a hidden 1-Up.
** ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'' had you gain a life at 20,000, 50,000 and every 50,000 points after that.

* ''Franchise/StarFox''
** In the original ''VideoGame/StarFox'', scoring 10,000, 30,000 and 50,000 points earns you chances to continue should your game be over by losing all your lives.

* When you reach certain score intervals in the original ''VideoGame/StarFox'', you'll be rewarded with a chance to continue should your game be over by losing all your lives; up to a maximum of 3!

* * ''VideoGame/ElevatorAction'': Some games reward the player with extra life once certain score is reached. In the original, it is 10000 points.

* {{Pinball}} machines in general use this to its fullest potential. Every modern machine will display a value which awards a free game to the player once it is surpassed, and most will also award additional games for earning enough points to appear on the high score list. These are signified by a loud knock from inside the machine, using an aptly-named solenoid called a "knocker," an artifact from before pre-recorded audio (and thus was the only good way to alert the player to something). Newer games can also be set to give out extra balls for points as well, making it a straighter example of this trope. (Pinball 2000 used that as the default settings.) Whereas video game makers refer to them as "extends," as seen at the description up top, pinball people call them "replays."

* The early ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games tended to follow the same pattern: on [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaI the first NES game]] you'd get your first extra life at 30,000 points and each subsequent extra life for every 50,000 points afterward. The game had a ton of hidden treasures worth a lot of points to help you in this task, including one before you even enter the castle.

** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', obtaining 80,000 points causes an "N-Spade" to appear on the world map, which leads to a matching-card game where you can earn power-ups and extra lives.

* In pokemon.com, games will give you a trainer token after 5,000 points, the first time you reach it under an account, that is, then it sticks to this rule like glue, all games except puzzles apply.

* In ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'', you get an extra life for every 25.000 mojo you collect.

* UsefulNotes/AtariST game ''Time Bandit'' (unrelated to the movie) starts you off with about 20 lives. And you get another every 1000 points. You go through them ''fast''.