> In terms of original games, I'm told a lot of the Korean arcades ran unpatched XP > machines connected to the internet for highscore sharing etc. needless to say, they > didn't survive remote exploit attacks and ended up as zombie machines, probably lost > forever. > > I believe some of the MAME frontends support similar share scoring features based > around hiscore.dat.
Don't forget cabs running ClientServerMAME. (It does happen).