High Score
High Score recounts the rise of arcade and home video games through the people who designed the machines, characters, and companies that defined the medium. It moves from early coin-ops to the console boom with first-hand accounts from the industry’s pioneers. High Score follows the innovators behind classic video games as they explain how arcades and early consoles turned technical experiments into a mass entertainment business. The series opens on the coin-op era, when figures such as Nolan Bushnell and the teams around Pong and Space Invaders turned bars and malls into gaming floors. Designers describe the constraints of limited hardware, the chase for the next hit cabinet, and the sudden cultural reach of titles like Pac-Man. Interviews with creators including Toru Iwatani and other arcade veterans walk through how characters and scoring loops were built under tight memory and cabine