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What is the origin of the term 1-Up?
The first place I saw it was Super Mario Brothers. I know it makes your lives go ‘up one’ but it is specifically called 1-Up? So any ideas on what the origin of this phrase is?
The original meaning of the term 1UP in multiplayer-capable 1980s arcade games was to mark the player’s score area. ’1UP’ would indicate ‘Player One’s score’, ’2UP’ would indicate ‘Player Two’s score’. It was common to show both scores on screen at once, with the high-score area in the middle of the score row.
The precise derivation of the phrase is a little unclear. The literal meaning would seem to be ‘Player One is up at the machine’ but in multiplayer games both 1UP and 2UP were visible at the same time. If it were simply an abbreviation for ‘Player One’ one would expect to see ’1P’ rather than ’1UP’. In any case, for a long period in the 1980s, even in a single player game it was very common to see the score field labelled as ’1UP’ rather than the more obvious ‘Score’. In current gaming console terminology, however, 1-up or one-up is used in a very different sense to mean the acquisition of an extra life during the course of a game.
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