# What arcade game could you crush everybody at?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 1, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-arcade-game-could-you-crush-everybody-at/953634 "2021-11-01T16:45:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-arcade-game-could-you-crush-everybody-at/953634/82 "2022-03-25T12:07:29Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> This was the Olde Days. They didn’t have enough memory for all the words they wanted. I’m pretty sure it says “Would you challenge E Black Knight again”. That extra TH was oo much.

It happened still in 1988 with the Jokerz pinball machine which had a feature that doubled your score, but they only had so much room in the message display so when it happened, it told you that you got to “DOUBLE YER SCORE”.

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