before there were epic storylines
branching quests and deep character
development videogames had one goal and
one goal alone get the biggest number
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten high score based video games for
this list we’ve picked the 10 best games
where your main objective is to rack up
the highest score humanly possible
number 10 fruit ninja fruit ninja is
deceptively simple but isn’t that what
makes mobile games so much fun armed
with a razor-sharp katana also known as
your finger the player is tasked with
chopping and slicing as much fruit as
possible in the allotted time because if
there’s one thing that any ninja worth
their salt hates its apples Kiwis
watermelons and pineapples score
multiplying combos can be achieved by
swiping multiple fruits at once but
avoid those bombs because they’ll end
your turn
fruit ninja is addictive yet simple the
perfect example of a fun mobile
distraction number nine dance dance
revelution series
dance dance revelution is one of the
most iconic modern arcade franchises and
for the longest time
you couldn’t head to an arcade without
seeing some dudes sweating buckets
frantically pounding his feet trying to
achieve the perfect score the gameplay
is pretty simple arrows move their way
to the top of the screen in sync with
crazy techno music and you have to step
on the corresponding dance pad in time
DDR went on to influence games like Just
Dance and Guitar Hero basically
single-handedly popularizing the concept
of rhythm based music games number eight
geometry wars series
what started out as a simple Easter egg
in Project Gotham Racing to soon became
an Indy phenomenon the geometry Wars
franchise took the classic formula seen
in games like asteroids and made it hip
again by combining twitchy arcade
shooting with modernized graphics
geometry wars managed to capture all the
elements that had kids dumping quarter
after quarter into arcade machines in
the 80s the premise is deceptively
simple navigate your ship across a
square grid while blasting alien ships
and racking up points but there’s
something that’s oh so satisfying about
weeding through those clouds of enemies
hell they called it geometry wars retro
evolved for a reason number 7 Galaga
there’s a reason why Galaga can still be
found in many arcades around the world
and why it’s been ported to just about
every console imaginable it’s probably
one of the most fun old-school score
attack shooting games ever created
Galaga took the formula popularized by
space invaders and improved on it with
enemy AI graphics gameplay and sound
that was way ahead of its time
Galaga manages the impressive feat of
still holding up as a fun and
challenging score attack game decades
after its release number 6 Temple Run
series
there are hundreds of endless runner
games on mobile devices but none
captured the adoration of both casual
and hardcore gamers like Temple Run for
months you couldn’t enter a subway or
bus without seeing someone frantically
swiping their smartphone trying to
collect coins and jump over pits the
combination of insanely fast gameplay
challenging platforming and ridiculously
addictive score multiplying makes Temple
Run a huge hit also who didn’t spend
hour after hour collecting coins to try
and unlock that football player number
five Donkey Kong Donkey Kong is often
remembered as the game that introduced
the world to two of Nintendo’s most
iconic characters Mario and Donkey Kong
yes Donkey Kong is one of the most
important historical documents in gaming
but it also stands out as one of the
best and most addictive arcade games
ever created that is very very cunning
and he will do what needs to stop it’s
very difficult to get Mario I mean jump
man past the constant barrage of barrels
and flames but it’s oh so satisfying to
reach the top of the stage and give that
giant monkey his comeuppance there’s
nothing stronger than having it be done
in front of a crowd the process stands
for itself he did it in front of all of
us but this solves any kind of doubt
that that could ever been number four
Guitar Hero series
rockband may have taken the formula
established by guitar hero added more
instruments and turned a kick-ass guitar
solo into an epic four-person jam test
but the Guitar Hero franchise is the
more significant series because it was
the pioneer of the plastic axe
Mining an amazing setlist with addictive
score based gameplay a badass guitar
peripheral fun storyline and cool
graphics Guitar Hero was a must own when
it was released number three Tony Hawk’s
Pro Skater – sure the original was
plenty of fun but nobody was quite ready
for the Megaton bomb that was Tony
Hawk’s Pro Skater – Neversoft found the
perfect storm of gameplay attitude
graphics soundtrack level design really
everything and created a near-perfect
game
one of the major additions was the
ability to manual allowing players to
put together almost endless strings of
tricks
suddenly beating all of those missions
took a backseat to finally hitting that
perfect combo and beating your best
friend’s top score number two miss
pac-man pac-man is the most famous
arcade game ever created but its sequel
miss pac-man basically improved on the
original in every way whereas the
original pac-man only had one map miss
pac-man has several that combined with
some basic story screens and a small
ribbon on Miss pac-man’s head are
basically the only improvements but they
were enough
escaping those ghosts while eating
pellets and navigating the maze like map
is so simple yet is there anything more
satisfying than grabbing a power pallet
and gobbling down all of the ghosts in
one shot before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions number
one Tetris
what started out as a pet project for
Soviet programmer Alexei patch enough
became one of the most beloved video
games ever and it mostly started when
Nintendo ported Tetris to the original
Gameboy
who could predict that the perfectly
addictive design of Tetris would go
together with portable gaming like
peanut butter and jelly Tetris
ultimately founded the puzzle game genre
and it’s still amazingly satisfying to
rack up a high score by erasing line
after line of squares with a perfectly
placed block just watch out for those
damned zig zag pieces do you agree with
our list did we forget any legendary
high score based video games for more
high score and top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
branching quests and deep character
development videogames had one goal and
one goal alone get the biggest number
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
ten high score based video games for
this list we’ve picked the 10 best games
where your main objective is to rack up
the highest score humanly possible
number 10 fruit ninja fruit ninja is
deceptively simple but isn’t that what
makes mobile games so much fun armed
with a razor-sharp katana also known as
your finger the player is tasked with
chopping and slicing as much fruit as
possible in the allotted time because if
there’s one thing that any ninja worth
their salt hates its apples Kiwis
watermelons and pineapples score
multiplying combos can be achieved by
swiping multiple fruits at once but
avoid those bombs because they’ll end
your turn
fruit ninja is addictive yet simple the
perfect example of a fun mobile
distraction number nine dance dance
revelution series
dance dance revelution is one of the
most iconic modern arcade franchises and
for the longest time
you couldn’t head to an arcade without
seeing some dudes sweating buckets
frantically pounding his feet trying to
achieve the perfect score the gameplay
is pretty simple arrows move their way
to the top of the screen in sync with
crazy techno music and you have to step
on the corresponding dance pad in time
DDR went on to influence games like Just
Dance and Guitar Hero basically
single-handedly popularizing the concept
of rhythm based music games number eight
geometry wars series
what started out as a simple Easter egg
in Project Gotham Racing to soon became
an Indy phenomenon the geometry Wars
franchise took the classic formula seen
in games like asteroids and made it hip
again by combining twitchy arcade
shooting with modernized graphics
geometry wars managed to capture all the
elements that had kids dumping quarter
after quarter into arcade machines in
the 80s the premise is deceptively
simple navigate your ship across a
square grid while blasting alien ships
and racking up points but there’s
something that’s oh so satisfying about
weeding through those clouds of enemies
hell they called it geometry wars retro
evolved for a reason number 7 Galaga
there’s a reason why Galaga can still be
found in many arcades around the world
and why it’s been ported to just about
every console imaginable it’s probably
one of the most fun old-school score
attack shooting games ever created
Galaga took the formula popularized by
space invaders and improved on it with
enemy AI graphics gameplay and sound
that was way ahead of its time
Galaga manages the impressive feat of
still holding up as a fun and
challenging score attack game decades
after its release number 6 Temple Run
series
there are hundreds of endless runner
games on mobile devices but none
captured the adoration of both casual
and hardcore gamers like Temple Run for
months you couldn’t enter a subway or
bus without seeing someone frantically
swiping their smartphone trying to
collect coins and jump over pits the
combination of insanely fast gameplay
challenging platforming and ridiculously
addictive score multiplying makes Temple
Run a huge hit also who didn’t spend
hour after hour collecting coins to try
and unlock that football player number
five Donkey Kong Donkey Kong is often
remembered as the game that introduced
the world to two of Nintendo’s most
iconic characters Mario and Donkey Kong
yes Donkey Kong is one of the most
important historical documents in gaming
but it also stands out as one of the
best and most addictive arcade games
ever created that is very very cunning
and he will do what needs to stop it’s
very difficult to get Mario I mean jump
man past the constant barrage of barrels
and flames but it’s oh so satisfying to
reach the top of the stage and give that
giant monkey his comeuppance there’s
nothing stronger than having it be done
in front of a crowd the process stands
for itself he did it in front of all of
us but this solves any kind of doubt
that that could ever been number four
Guitar Hero series
rockband may have taken the formula
established by guitar hero added more
instruments and turned a kick-ass guitar
solo into an epic four-person jam test
but the Guitar Hero franchise is the
more significant series because it was
the pioneer of the plastic axe
Mining an amazing setlist with addictive
score based gameplay a badass guitar
peripheral fun storyline and cool
graphics Guitar Hero was a must own when
it was released number three Tony Hawk’s
Pro Skater – sure the original was
plenty of fun but nobody was quite ready
for the Megaton bomb that was Tony
Hawk’s Pro Skater – Neversoft found the
perfect storm of gameplay attitude
graphics soundtrack level design really
everything and created a near-perfect
game
one of the major additions was the
ability to manual allowing players to
put together almost endless strings of
tricks
suddenly beating all of those missions
took a backseat to finally hitting that
perfect combo and beating your best
friend’s top score number two miss
pac-man pac-man is the most famous
arcade game ever created but its sequel
miss pac-man basically improved on the
original in every way whereas the
original pac-man only had one map miss
pac-man has several that combined with
some basic story screens and a small
ribbon on Miss pac-man’s head are
basically the only improvements but they
were enough
escaping those ghosts while eating
pellets and navigating the maze like map
is so simple yet is there anything more
satisfying than grabbing a power pallet
and gobbling down all of the ghosts in
one shot before we unveil our top pick
here are a few honorable mentions number
one Tetris
what started out as a pet project for
Soviet programmer Alexei patch enough
became one of the most beloved video
games ever and it mostly started when
Nintendo ported Tetris to the original
Gameboy
who could predict that the perfectly
addictive design of Tetris would go
together with portable gaming like
peanut butter and jelly Tetris
ultimately founded the puzzle game genre
and it’s still amazingly satisfying to
rack up a high score by erasing line
after line of squares with a perfectly
placed block just watch out for those
damned zig zag pieces do you agree with
our list did we forget any legendary
high score based video games for more
high score and top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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