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You already know what a high score is.
 
You already know what a high score is.
  
[[Speedrunwiki.com]] is not exclusively devoted to speed runs. Unlike the [[Speed Demos Archive]], with which we are not affiliated, this site is actually devoted to ''all'' forms of intense, advanced, difficult videogaming. This happily embraces the theory and practice of getting impossibly high scores in what are essentially fixed-length games such as [[Ikaruga]] and... and... the letter-sorting sub-game in [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]], and open-ended games like [[Tetris]].
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[[Speedrunwiki.com]] is not exclusively devoted to speedrun. Unlike the [[Speed Demos Archive]], with which we are not affiliated, this site is actually devoted to ''all'' forms of intense, advanced, difficult videogaming. This happily embraces the theory and practice of getting impossibly high scores in what are essentially fixed-length games such as [[Ikaruga]] and... and... the letter-sorting sub-game in [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]], and open-ended games like [[Tetris]].
  
 
Yes, this does mean the site is slightly mis-named. Watch carefully as we shrug. *shrug*
 
Yes, this does mean the site is slightly mis-named. Watch carefully as we shrug. *shrug*
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===Extreme high scores===
 
===Extreme high scores===
  
The highest known high score in a ''retail videogame'' is a score of [http://cyberscore.net/chart-26442.php 103,489,326,467] obtained by [[Tom Batchelor]] on the Sapphire Table of [[Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire]] for the [[Game Boy Advance]], on May 5th, 2006.
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The highest known high score of ''any kind at all'' is a score of [http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/scores.htm 1,799,746,631,743,346,000] points obtained by Stuart Campbell on stage 3 of Score Attack mode in Giga Wing 2 for the Dreamcast.
 
 
The highest known high score of ''any kind at all'' is a score of [http://homokaasu.org/gasgames/highscores.gas?g=3 141,645,132,297,378] obtained by "pepponen" on the unfortunately-named internet Flash game [http://homokaasu.org/gasgames/game.gas?3 Fuck It] (SFW). (Pepponen's score is over 10 times the second-place score because scores in this game increase exponentially.)
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 23:12, 25 February 2022

You already know what a high score is.

Speedrunwiki.com is not exclusively devoted to speedrun. Unlike the Speed Demos Archive, with which we are not affiliated, this site is actually devoted to all forms of intense, advanced, difficult videogaming. This happily embraces the theory and practice of getting impossibly high scores in what are essentially fixed-length games such as Ikaruga and... and... the letter-sorting sub-game in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and open-ended games like Tetris.

Yes, this does mean the site is slightly mis-named. Watch carefully as we shrug. *shrug*

Extreme high scores

The highest known high score of any kind at all is a score of 1,799,746,631,743,346,000 points obtained by Stuart Campbell on stage 3 of Score Attack mode in Giga Wing 2 for the Dreamcast.