Your High Scores Signing Initial and What it Stands For

[DEL]

Nickname.
& for a shit run - DED

[Necronopticous]

OOO
000
___

No meaning whatsoever.

[cj iwakura]

Used to be CJS, my initials, now I put CJI.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Just for kicks, I'd input "PCE" for the high score initial entry. On the classic Hard Drivin' and Racing Drivin' deluxe sit-down cabs, I'd enter the classic "Pac-Man Lives" or "Mrs. Pac-Man Lives" as my high score initial entry. Atari Games was cool to allow their arcade patrons to enter whatever they wished to do so if such a high score was reached.

Some arcade games and console games were notorious for not being able to enter certain high score entries such as: FUC, FUK, SEX, etc. and would revert to a set default name entry if those particular entries were chosen. Of course, there's always the nicely phonetically spelled variant of "Phuck" to consider as well.

Back in the early 1980s, it was cool to leave such short text messages on the arcade game's high score list for your friends/enemies to read/peruse. It was possible to pull off back in those days, provided that you could reach the high score list (albeit at a quarter per high score initial entry for a mere $1.25 back in the day if there were five top high score slots available at your disposal). Of course, most early '80s arcade games didn't save high scores and/or high score initials and would simply dissappear upon shutting the arcade's main circuit breaker box down for the night. Some classic arcade games like Tron, Discs of Tron, Dig Dug, Pole Position, Pole Position II, etc. would save such high scores & high score initials for posterity. Classic arcade gamer veterans already know about this cool high score text messaging trick (just like with the lost art of "jamming" as well).

Sidearms Factoid: The classic Capcom's Hyper Dyne Sidearms PCB (circa 1986) had the strange notion for the player to enter his or her initials before the start of a serious shmup session. Only if you were to reach or beat the top 5 rankings, would your initials appear there. Strange but true.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Aru-san]

ARU, for reasons that should be obvious

Considering how much I play Espgaluda (and improve on scores on the cab that's at my school), I should probably do that neato message thing for the all-time Tateha HS board that PC Engine Fan X mentioned.

[moh]

moh


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surprise.

[viper_phase1]

CAT

It's a nice three-letter word, and I like cats very much.

[Kollision]

If I do it nicely it will be KOL or EDW.
If I perform like shit it will be something like BST, KCT, MER, BUN, CU or SCH (for Scheisse).

[Ruldra]

Normally I just use my initials: FEL
If I'm going to post the score online, I use RUL

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm, I just realized that my initials backwards would be HAE, that'd be good to see

My initials are TJE.

ToeJam & Earl!

[chempop]

GLX

Short for "genius loci times", my children's theater co.


If I am playing on non-defaults it's

GLZ

[Naut]

NOT

heterograph

[siddacious]

BNS <-- Initials
SID <-nickname
51D <-more awesome version
SBS <- email sig, combo between initials and nickname

[iconoclast]

ROB - Short for Robert because I'm not creative enough to come up with anything else.

I like how x91 uses roman numerals for his initials (IXI).

[man9child]

PJG for my initials, but I went through some phases.

ACE as a kid cause my older cousin used it and I thought he was cool, also fast to enter.
OZZ because I liked Black Sabbath.
RS2 because I really got into Ikaruga for a few years.
GOD but only when I take top spot on a public machine.

Only thing I use nowadays besides initials is 1CC if I clear it.

[beatsgo]

OAT

...because I like oatmeal

[matrigs]

SAD

because that's what my scores are.

[BrianC]

AAA - what I put when I'm too lazy to put in a score
BLC - my real initials

[shadowbringer]

SBR (shadowbringer, duh )

[NeoStrayCat]

M.V = Initials of Name (Used to...)
DOH = For Kicks
HHH = lol...


NSC = But lately, my username in Initial form.

[VixyNyan]

VIX or NYA, but mostly VIX. ^^

[CptRansom]

LOL

Sometimes WAT or WUT.

[moh]

SAD

because that's what my scores are.

YEAH!!

i know how you feel

[ciox]

Whatever an instant "END!" gives you, for instance Psyvariar Revision gives you "???" if you do that, and then you can be amazed at how it was updated to "!!!" for Psyvariar 2. Usually it's boring company initials though.

[hzt]

Generally if I do a crap score at the arcade I enter one of the other player's initials, so that people will think they did it.

And dan76 does this occasionally

And both of them usually write HZT when they do

I think hzt is just some random letters I chose to deliberately have no meaning for me, I guess it's possible it meant something originally (I've used it online sometimes before using it as score initials) but I've forgotten now if it did, so same result.

[Klatrymadon]

I've mostly been using YOG for the past few years, after Yog-Sothoth, from Lovecraft's pantheon (also the name of a musical project I still haven't started).

Occasionally I'll use BAL, as in Bal-Sagoth.

[MX7]

Just my initials: Michael Xavier Seven.

[renardqueenston]

R.Q / R!Q / R♥Q / R♪Q - pretty much whichever weird character the scoreboard allows goes between the initials

or REN, if not even "." is available, but that's uncommon, and REN! on 4-character boards

[moh]

OAT

...because I like oatmeal

I also like oatmeal.

[TJB]

TJB mostly, sometimes I use TDN.

if it lets me use more than 3 characters (In The Hunt for example) I'll use my current IIDX name, GOKKUN.