scorebox
nounEtymology From score + box.
1
Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports An enclosed structure in which the scorers sit; often behind the scoreboard
2
Video games A box overlaid on the screen to display the player's score.
- Video games are notorious for having relatively unchanging areas on the screen (ie the scorebox), which can quickly be burned into the screen.1994, Coyt D Watters, “Projection TVs and SEGA”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet):
- 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.2001, Matt Neuburg, REALbasic: the definitive guide, page 64: