| 100% | PAC | 3 | "___-Man" (arcade game with a yellow character) |
| 84% | MSPACMAN | 8 | 1980s arcade game featuring a yellow character with a bow: 2 wds. |
| 81% | PACMAN | 6 | Arcade game with a yellow smiley eating dots |
| 76% | FLICKY | 6 | 1984 arcade game with a blue bird character |
| 76% | Q*BERT | 6 | 1980s arcade game with a cube-jumping character |
| 71% | JRPACMAN | 8 | Arcade game character with a propeller beanie |
| 68% | PAC | 3 | ___-Man (1980s arcade game with a maze) |
| 66% | SKEEBALL | 8 | Arcade game with a ramp |
| 66% | SOCCER | 6 | Game with a yellow card |
| 64% | DDR | 3 | Arcade game with a floor pad, for short |
| 63% | MARBLEMADNESS | 13 | '80s arcade game with a rolling ball |
| 63% | DIGDUG | 6 | Classic arcade game with a subterranean setting |
| 61% | NBAJAM | 6 | Classic arcade game with a glass backboard that shatters |
| 61% | QBERT | 5 | Video game with a cube-hopping character |
| 60% | DND | 3 | Game with a 56-Across character class, for short |
| 59% | AOL | 3 | Letters associated with a yellow "Running Man" |
| 59% | CURIOUS | 7 | Inquisitive George, lived with a yellow-hatted man |
| 58% | DIG | 3 | ___ Dug, '80s maze arcade game with a "Stranger Things" episode named after it |
| 58% | AIRHOCKEY | 9 | Table-based arcade game with paddles and a puck |
| 57% | PAC | 3 | ___-Man, famous arcade game character who is associated with the color at 42a |
| 55% | SKEE | 4 | ___-ball (arcade game with a ramp) |
| 55% | FROGGER | 7 | “The arcade game with the most ways to die,” per a 1982 review |
| 55% | QBERT | 5 | Classic arcade game character who hopped around a pyramid |
| 54% | PAC | 3 | ___-Man, arcade game character |
| 53% | PAC | 3 | Arcade game character ___-Man |
| 53% | WATERPOLO | 9 | Pool game played with a yellow ball |
| 53% | DONKEYKONG | 10 | Video game with a gorilla that first featured the main character of 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 52% | MARIO | 5 | "The Godfather" author who shares his name with a video game character |
| 51% | AOL | 3 | I.S.P. with a yellow running-man logo |
| 50% | PAC | 3 | ___ Man, video game about a yellow dot eating other dots |