Your High Scores Signing Initial and What it Stands For

doodude · Post by **doodude** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:57 am

Super Laydoc wrote:
On violent games having a bad influence on children...

"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

BTW, thats hilarious!!!

Post by **spadgy** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:15 pm

I saw that on a T-shirt once, or something very similar. Was that you at some monsterously big club in London Mr Laydoc?

patrickmanx · Post by **patrickmanx** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:32 am

PSO

Patricio Slater Ojeda

bsidwell · Post by **bsidwell** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:39 am

BDA
Originally it was the result of missing the E while putting in BEN, but I've since switched to using it exclusively. It's a lot faster to put in.
Those of you who are car nerds might recognize it as a famous Cosworth racing engine that powered, among other things, Ford Escort rally and touring cars.

cajujoe · Post by **cajujoe** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:19 am

SAM

The initials of my name and surnames.

Sometimes I just put SM, the initials of the first and the last.

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:35 am

KMR

Just my actual initials.

Octopod · Post by **Octopod** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:11 am

I usually use ZEN.

Edit: Switched to using OCT.

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:59 am

OOO, 000, or all blanks.

I don't know why. Lazy?

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:42 pm

I've used several over the years:
SDL = real initials
LSD = trippy variant on real initials
STS = [first name] The Supreme, a nick i adopted for fun because a friend egotistically called himself Mike The Master.

Now though in MAME i use initials that tell me more info about the given score that the game doesn't provide. For example in Aero Fighters i use names like "C6", meaning ship type C and i died on stage 6. In Battle Bakraid, CNA means shot type C (since often it's hard to tell what shot type you chose due to the similar colors); NA means No Autofire.

Other variants/meanings i now use:
SDL = later stage credit feed score
SSS = autofire and gamepad
STP = gamepad
STS = keyboard
STU = keyboard with 1 hand

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:30 pm

Twiddle wrote:I try to fit in an expletive if I know I can get two adjacent scores in games like metal slug

examples:

CUN
T__

FUC
K__

BIT
CH_

This reminds me of a certain comic strip...

Kagami HiME · Post by **Kagami HiME** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:48 pm

KHI

Kagami HiME (for shmups)
or
Kairi HiME (for other games)

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:15 pm

I use PER as it's my first name. People that have three letter first names are born to get high-scores.

Zaarock · Post by **Zaarock** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:12 pm

ZAA, from my usual nickname.

RobTheBuilder · Post by **RobTheBuilder** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:50 pm

MAX

I was in an arcade in about 1994, and got top score on Puzzle Bobble 2. My name is Rob but all the scores were already listed as Rob.

My favourite game at the time was Sam and Max... so I decided to be Max. Has stuck ever since.

pieslice · Post by **pieslice** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:27 pm

BAA - one letter away from AAA.
Other one I use is GZM, which derives from Guzman, a joke name I used as my karaoke alias couple of times.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:23 am

Ruldra wrote:This reminds me of a certain comic strip...

In reality, somebody would've gotten a high score in the middle so it'd be like "will you marry me bitch" and totally punked that loser

hey hey, CAD sucks, what's new

My initials of choice (well, not choice so much as they're what I was given) are EAH

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:01 am

For about a month or two now I've been using the letters "ELK". I dunno why actually.

bakaichi · Post by **bakaichi** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:27 pm

PSF

Nothing special it's my initials, then again for me a high score is personal.

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:34 pm

On my systems I use PJS, my real initials.
On arcade machines I use SHU, the first 3 letters of my last name.
On friends systems I use FAG so they have motivation to get it off the highscores.

Hulkcore · Post by **Hulkcore** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:36 pm

I don't get highscores.

Marcel1CC · Post by **Marcel1CC** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:23 pm

M1C - means Marcel1CC. my real name and just 1CC (One Credit Clear). i will change my nick also into Marcel1CC.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:47 pm

ARU

Occasionally, I will use the following: MYU and NOQ.

ARU - StudioAru (or Aru-san).
MYU - Myuna Ishikawa, one of my roleplaying characters.
NOQ - Nokkyu (kyu = Q) Ishikawa, another roleplaying character.

third_strike · Post by **third_strike** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:56 pm

JTS for Jônatas Third Strike.

C

L!

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:39 am

LBG (my initials) or LOU (do I have to explain that one?

)

Which one I pick depends on if it goes to the beginning of the alphabet again after a letter is selected

boagman · Post by **boagman** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:18 am

XXY.

Time warp back with me to fifth grade (that's "Grade 5" to you Canadian folk...), to an arcade in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan called "Alligator Alley". Circa 1982 or so. Old school, indeed.

So I'm playing a generic (oddly enough) shmup in the vein of Galaxian or Galaga, but completely different from them altogether (nothing by Bally/Midway or Namco or anything like that...). It's a generic, probably rather crappy shmup that obviously doesn't get played a whole lot, because a fifth grade kid is able to play it and post the top score on the board.

Now, try to recall life back when you were in fifth grade...what was more important than *anything*? You guessed it: being "cool". You *had* to be cool. If you weren't like The Fonz, well, dude: you sucked. Or at least you *felt* like you sucked. Coolness: The Driving Force Of Life Itself.

So, I've got this top score, and I'm given the now-traditional initial entry screen. Sure, entering initials for high scores wasn't anything new to the industry at that point, but when you're an uncoordinated kid in the fifth grade, doggone it...you just didn't get to enter your own very often. And even when you did, what do you have staring you right back in your now-disappointed little eyes?

AWB.

I cannot express, via the written word, how absolutely, unmitigatingly, totally, absolutely, and all-encompassingly UNCOOL those three letters are together. They even *sound* stupid. Go ahead and phoenetically pronoun that: "awb". This was *so* "anti-Fonz".

Thinking on the fly, thinking about that clock ticking down, I wanted, no...*needed* to overcome the depth of nerdiness that AWB parlayed. In my own fifth grade mind, I thought, "What would a secret agent do?" Because, I mean, seriously now: WHO ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH IS COOLER THAN A SECRET AGENT?!?!?!?

And of course, I immediately came upon "Secret Agent X", and therefore thought that I should enter XXX. *However*, after thinking about it for a millisecond, I thought about the AAA problem, that people would just assume it was an accidental knock of the joystick or something and that someone had just rapid-fired the shot button to get the initial entry screen out of the way. So I had to think further.

So out of all the super-cool secret agents in the world, who's the coolest? James Freaking Bond, that's who. What's his number? 007. Yessir, I needed a change at the end there to liven it up so that no one would think it was just a mistake, and therefore, XX*Y* was born. Additional bonus: there's no way that anyone, anywhere, *ever* could have those three initials, in that order. None.

I am now nearly 36 years of age, and I have never strayed from that entry, unless more spaces are allowed than three, in which case the signature might become as long as "Artisan XXY 017", but usually would just be "Artisan XXY", or, be it ever so humble, just plain good ol' "XXY".

And now, you know the *rest* of the story...

ForceDevice · Post by **ForceDevice** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:59 am

FDV, no explanation needed.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 1:16 pm

EAH

ArrogantBastard wrote:Initials for my first, middle and last name. I'm a terribly boring person.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:01 pm

I alternate between my initials, CGK, and ACD for ACiD.

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:57 am

XRA

shortened first name/nickname/tag/handle... etc

honorless · Post by **honorless** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:55 am

RAH

My handle has been Rikki A Hyperion since like age thirteen. I used to use my real initials, but they don't reflect my sunny disposition nearly as well. So it goes!

If I get four spaces it ends up being RAH! or RAH❤.