![]() ![]() Fail to do so and you could easily dismiss an arcade game as shallow or too easy. I don’t really like the expression “You’re playing it wrong,” but with score attack games there’s definitely a way to play them right. Once you understand what makes them tick, once you stop playing them to “complete” them and play for a high score instead, that’s when the scales fall from your eyes and you see these games for what they really are – genius clockwork mechanisms that are expertly constructed to push you to your limit, plumbing their hidden depths and deepening your appreciation. ![]() Little gems like Taito’s Zoo Keeper or Namco’s Mr Driller, less celebrated by the general gaming public, have become some of my all-time favourites for precisely one reason. There’s something about a score attack game that I really love.
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