Clocking?

[latenightapplepie]

Yeah I've heard 'clocking' before and I'm an aussie, but I don't hear it so often any more. It's not in common usage on the internet, I believe.

 

[Phyroxis]

I've worked in and around EA studios and haven't heard it... Though I'm just a marketing contractor, so I don't see too much studio action to begin with.

 

[NeoAC]

Canada hasn't heard of it either, of course I'm pretty far removed from the gaming community, and I've only used the phrase "completely beaten" on the two games I can claim that for. (Kirby 64, and Banjo-Tooie, yeah I know, really lame)

 

[BlueTimberwolf]

Clocking is a term from the old arcade machine days.

It is when the player achieves a score so high that the machine can?t display the score.

Example:

BB 9999999
CJ 0058698
HH 0023569

BB might have achieved a score higher than 9999999 but the machine does not have the ability to show it. The game has been clocked.

Now days it is used as a reference to someone completing every aspect of a game.

 

[klc0100]

From London England and always use the word clocked and clocking the first game I ever clocked was Pokémon blue thats how long I have been using the word.

 

[Jaythulhu]

Clocking? Yeah, that's what finishing a game was called back in the days of arcades and atari 2600s. Not sure if it's still used, I hear a lot more yank slang than aussie around here these days.

 

[Bowstring]

I'm from the UK, and I've never heard it before. I usually use 'cleared'. As in:

"I cleared Spyro the Dragon 4 times."

or

"I tried to clear Resident Evil but the poorly rendered zombie-esque monsters made me sad in my pants."

 

[Kermi]

Literally twenty years ago, a friend of mine informed me he "clocked" Alex Kidd in Miracle World. I always felt he was using the phrase wrong. I can see how 'clocking' might apply if you were say, doing a speed run, and you could then say "I clocked Alex Kidd in at 43 minutes", but it doesn't feel right to me to say I clocked a game when all I did was complete it.
Then again, games like Alex Kidd in Miracle World didn't have a completion bar, no hidden secrets, no side paths or non-linear exploring. You either got to the end or you didn't.

 

[PureChaos]

I have in lived in different areas around the south of England and i've not heard it be used in any of them, even by some of my friends who are big gamers.

 

[darthsmily]

[/quote]

See what I mean! That wasn't English! That was... I don't know what the hell that was

I bet that the Australian language derives itself from the "Cockney" British accent and/or language.

And yes, I have heard the term "clocked" before down here in Australia.

 

[Rush_Thores]

See what I mean! That wasn't English! That was... I don't know what the hell that was

I bet that the Australian language derives itself from the "Cockney" British accent and/or language.

And yes, I have heard the term "clocked" before down here in Australia.[/quote]

Is that cockney accent as in how it really sounds or 'watch oliver twist and think you know how it sounds when really you're just kinda ignorant' cockney accent?

But yeah I live in California right now and use it all the time. Although I moved to England for a couple a years and might have picked it up there.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

Can't say that i've heard it referred to that way... New England area here. Just say complete it 100% or some other jazz...