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1d	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @Ekonion: The first game to record high scores was recording 10 characters
May 15	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? I suspect they would not use 1 byte per char though.
May 15	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @MichaelMadsen: thank you that makes alot of sense.
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May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? let us continue this discussion in chat
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? Well it seems that the first high scores were on 10 characters so it still does not explain why it was reverted to 3. And you misunderstood me, I did not say that they will have always enough room. I was saying that assuming that it was due to technical limits is not obvious since the capacity of RAM at this time could handle this. Maybe I am wrong because maybe the Video RAM was dedicated but to me this is far from obvious and in regards to your first comment, it does not tell me if the RAM for scores and graphics was the same or not.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? I do not know, I assumed if you have enough ram to fit a resolution of a a few hundred by a few hundred, you would have probably enough spare to store a highscore that you could encode on 3x10x5bits for 32 symbols. If this is total nonsense for you so be it.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @Graeme Hunter: Please look at this page, it has the history of high-scores en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Score_(game) with a few references. I emailed Taito support to ask them if there was a reason they limited to three chars the high-scores, but from what you say, it was not limited to three chars.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? It does not say how much can be spared for high-scores, I agree but I wanted only to say that a few bytes of data is really nothing compared to the number of pixels in the game. And that is not what you said in your first comment.
May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @SevenSidedDie: so you are saying that these cabinets were too limited in RAM to store high scores ? Don't the sprites have to go through some RAM at some point in order to make the final picture to display ?
May 14	revised	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? Removed the word 'presumptous' which seems to make people angry.
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May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? I do not think the limitation was memory, but I am happy to know the real reason. See Graeme Hunter's reply seems to me a more reasonable answer. Seems that my wording attracted alot of ire.
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May 14	comment	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? @SevenSidedDie: I was merely mentioning that it is 1 single byte and you are not technically correct as some arcades did not store the scores permanently after reset which invalidates your point.
May 14	revised	Why do the high score tables of older arcade games limit your name to three characters? deleted 18 characters in body