scorebox
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[edit]scorebox (plural scoreboxes)
- (cricket) An enclosed structure in which the scorers sit; often behind the scoreboard
- (video games) A box overlaid on the screen to display the player's score.
- 1994, Coyt D Watters, “Projection TVs and SEGA”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):
- Video games are notorious for having relatively unchanging areas on the screen (ie the scorebox), which can quickly be burned into the screen.
- 2001, Matt Neuburg, REALbasic: the definitive guide, page 64:
- Recall that our arcade game is to have a scorebox that knows how to increase itself, and observe that this implies there is a score.