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* Early {{Fighting Game}}s would do this, draining the fight timer and your health bar into end-of-round bonuses if you won the round. At least, as long as the idea of scoring points was around; ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' dropped it after the first game, while ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' never had it to begin with.

* ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'', since [[Videogame/Thekingoffighters94 1994]].

* ''VideoGame/StarFox''

** ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' and its sequel ''Yoshi's Story''.

* ''Videogame/SutteHakkun'' compares your score against your personal best. While you get no bonuses due to the nature of the scoring system, you are given a penalty if you use [[AntiFrustrationFeatures a hint]] before clearing the stage proper.
* Classic and similar modes in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series quickly rack up your score after each fight. In ''Melee'' and beyond, the battles also have score screens.

* Interestingly, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' has a score screen. It's used to determine how much TP (used for sub-abilities) you get, and for achievements. It was kept for the entire trilogy, in some cases also affecting item drop rates.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' also does this, showing a "Report Card" and awarding EXP to your party based on GameplayGrading for Time (how quickly you won the battle), Finesse (how well you utilize blindsides and counters), and Offense (how many enemies you defeat in an encounter).

* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' gives you a score out of 100 based on multiple categories: time spent on stage, number of lives lost, how much damage you've taken, and number of Cyber Elves used, then adds them up to give you a letter grade. From ''Zero 2'', you unlocked an EX Skill for getting an S rank.

** Dweeb]]changes the channel to cartoons.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMario''

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', often with a distinctive "cash register" sound when the game finishes totaling your score.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' and various other games in the series such as
** ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' and its sequel ''Yoshi's Story''

* Classic and similar modes in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series quickly rack up your score after each fight.
** In Melee and beyond, the battles also have score screens.

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand 4'' had one at the end of every regular level, where your remaining hearts were poured into a little more cash for your level score, which is then added to your total cash reserves.

In newer games, ScoringPoints are often replaced with statistics and a [[GameplayGrading rating of the player's performance]]. In this case, they're vulnerable to RankInflation.

* The ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'' series

* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero''.

** [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Dweeb]] changes the channel to cartoons.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' had this in every game. The first game had the best score screen, though. ''Great Shot'' playing in the background, kills tallied up by a line of people dying and buildings exploding (for Nod anyways, which had their own, awesome score screen music), fancy scaling effects on letters whenever you type in your initials, it was a real treat. Multiplayer and Skirmish matches also had similar score screens, the third games in particular gave you a timeline graph representing each player's progression in economy, units and buildings and showing when each player won or lost and if they constructed a superweapon along with other stats such as kills, losses, total gross resources gathered, total money spent, etc.

Some games just run a clock, in which case the odometer (or digital clock) runs up until the amount of time you used is reported. Often it will show the (ridiculously unreachable) "Par" score the developers of the game used to get to the exit. Like you've just sweated your ass off to finish the level, it took you 48 minutes to finish and it was ''[[NintendoHard really hard]]'' to get it even that quickly. So below your 48:13, is the developer's ''Par'' time: 1:45. Well, maybe not ''totally'' unreachable, you just do like Bill Murray in ''Film/GroundhogDay'' when he explained how he was able to toss cards into a hat and never miss once: "Oh, not much practice, eight, ten hours a day, every day for six months."

** Some modern games still use it, like ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur IV''. Of course there are other ways to score points. ClothingDamage, FlawlessVictory and so on.

* ''{{VideoGame/Contra}}''

* Early {{Fighting Game}}s would do this, draining the fight timer and your health bar into end-of-round bonuses if you won the round. At least, as long as the idea of scoring points was around; ''MortalKombat'' dropped it after the first game, while ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' never had it to begin with.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' had this in every game. The first game had the best score screen, though. ''Great Shot'' playing in the background, kills tallied up by a line of people dying and buildings exploding (for Nod anyways, which had their own, awesome score screen music), fancy scaling effects on letters whenever you type in your initials, it was a real treat. Multiplayer and Skirmish matches also had similar score screens, the third games in particular gave you a timeline graph representing each player's progression in economy, units and buildings and showing when each player won, lost or constructed a superweapon along with other stats such as kills, losses, total gross resources gathered, total money spent, etc.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' had this in every game. The first game had the best score screen, though. ''Great Shot'' playing in the background, kills tallied up by a line of people dying and buildings exploding (for Nod anyways, which had their own, awesome score screen music), fancy scaling effects on letters whenever you type in your initials, it was a real treat.

* ''VideoGame/{{Ristar}} has a dynamic one that adds up points while the titular character rockets his way to the next world with triumphant music playing in the background.

*** {{beatmania}} has typically taken it a step further and placed backgrounds on them that depend on the grade, often containing [[{{Fanservice}} female characters in swimsuits.]]