Why should we care: Achievements and Trophies

As long as there have been games, there has been challenges, achievements and tasks that you wouldn’t normally do within a normal playthrough. Completing the original Mario without ever dying, rushing through Sonic in the fastest time, collecting all the ultimate weapons in Final Fantasy. While they didn’t always pop up with a message saying “You did X, have Y points” there have been times where games had their own in-game or in-company tracking systems for such, the most commonly known was that of the Pokédex keeping a number of all Pokémon caught.