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Basic Trope: Players of a game receive very large numbers of points for their actions.

  • Straight: Doing a Goomba Stomp on an enemy gives you 1000 points instead of just one.
  • Exaggerated: You get googolplexes of points for everything you do in the game.
  • Downplayed: You get five points for minor actions instead of just one.
  • Justified: Your score represents money, and you're being paid a lot for your mission.
  • Inverted: You get 0.00000001 points for beating the Final Boss.
  • Subverted: At the end of the game, your score is divided by 100, so you really only got one point for actions you thought gave you 100.
  • Double Subverted: ...Then, your score gets multiplied by 1 million.
  • Parodied: The zeroes at the end of your score counter run off the edge of the screen.
  • Zig Zagged: Your score is displayed in different units at different points in the game, making it look much larger in some places than in others.
  • Averted: Every bit of progress you make in the game earns you only one point each.
  • Enforced: The game company wants the high scores on their game to be really impressive, so they make the game give out points like crazy.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "I scored a million points in this game!" "I guess you need to practice more."

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