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A game design tradition, sometimes attributed to ''[[Adventure]]'' ([[William Crowther]] and [[Donald Woods]]; 1976), of permitting a [[player]] to reach a game's optimal [[ending]] without earning the "last lousy point" that will provide the highest possible score. In order to earn the final point, a [[player]] must perform some extremely obscure action -- so obscure that gamers are sometimes tempted to cheat. | A game design tradition, sometimes attributed to ''[[Adventure]]'' ([[William Crowther]] and [[Donald Woods]]; 1976), of permitting a [[player]] to reach a game's optimal [[ending]] without earning the "last lousy point" that will provide the highest possible score. In order to earn the final point, a [[player]] must perform some extremely obscure action -- so obscure that gamers are sometimes tempted to cheat. | ||
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* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LastLousyPoint Last Lousy Point] at TV Tropes Wiki. | |||
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Revision as of 09:38, 10 April 2011
A game design tradition, sometimes attributed to Adventure (William Crowther and Donald Woods; 1976), of permitting a player to reach a game's optimal ending without earning the "last lousy point" that will provide the highest possible score. In order to earn the final point, a player must perform some extremely obscure action -- so obscure that gamers are sometimes tempted to cheat.
Links
- Last Lousy Point at TV Tropes Wiki.