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Contents 1 1-up and "One-up" 2 Old games, 1-UP, 2-UP - player up. 3 1-Up Mushroom Picture. 4 1-Up (Homestar Runner) 5 "In other titles, if the player collects a "health" power-up while that gauge is already at maximum he is rewarded with an extra life." 6 2 Universe Problem 7 "1st User Player"

[edit] 1-up and "One-up"

While I don't doubt the videogame useage originates from the Japanese use, it may be worth noting that the similar phrase "one up" (to jump ahead of a competitor) has been widely in use in English since the 1950s after being popularised by Stephen Potter in One-upmanship. - Zoganes

[edit] Old games, 1-UP, 2-UP - player up.

There's a more valid explanation for the 1-up terminology.

Older arcade games, going back to the old multiplayer pinball games, would have separate score tabulations for each player. A four-player-max pinball game would show a lit section on the back screen showing which player's turn it was, i.e., who was "up". Player 1 UP, Player 2 up, Player 3 up, etc.

Early two player arcade games would show 1up score and 2up scores... and then the number of lives remaining.

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I second this. I remember the '1UP', '2UP' notation on the score lines of 80s arcade games. An extra life then was always just called a bonus life or extra life. The definition of '1UP' as extra life is a very strange terminology to me and I don't think it should be listed as the primary meaning of this term. Maybe the term has drifted over the years, but the current meaning certainly wasn't original.

Can someone find a MAME screenshot showing '1UP' and '2UP' in its original meaning?

--Natecull 07:09, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

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Does the original 1UP stand for "1st user player", perhaps? 24.199.116.254 10:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

That's what I thought, although on reflection I've only really thought that recently and back in the 80s and early 90s would never have refered to "user" in the context of computer games so I'm not sure when it first occurred to me but I suspect it's a backronym. I do remember wondering exactly what it was supposed to stand for, when I was a kid. --JamesTheNumberless 14:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1-Up Mushroom Picture.

The 1-Up Mushroom picture is just an edited version of the Mario Kart: Double Dash!! concept art for the Super Mushroom, as seen here:

• Image:Mushroom.jpg
• Image:1upMushroom3d.jpg

Can someone get a real picture? RememberMe? 02:11, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

How is this? 1-up mushroom in Super Mario Bros.gif ... I've added it above 1upMushroom3d.jpg (which appears to be using an improper license, you can't just slighty change the colors with photoshop a picture and then claim it is public domain). --Splarka (rant) 23:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1-Up (Homestar Runner)

You know, there is a Homestar Runner character called 1-up. Can we have an article about him? --138.130.37.208 07:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "In other titles, if the player collects a "health" power-up while that gauge is already at maximum he is rewarded with an extra life."

I can't think of a single title that does this. If someone can think of few examples it ought to stay, but otherwise it can't be called standard practice and should remain removed. Mr.bonus 17:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2 Universe Problem

It says that 2UP can also refer to "2 Universe Problem" in software debugging. If anyone knows any more detailed information about this, please create an article or stub about it, or provide a link that contains more informations.85.1.223.60 00:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Seconded. I can't find any information of this supposed problem at all. The only thing google gives me are links back to wiki. Aaronstj 18:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "1st User Player"

I thought 1UP also meant "1st User Player" but I think I just made that up. In Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, on the character selection screen, the cursors say "1UP" and "2UP". --Addict 2006 21:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)