| 100% | JRPACMAN | 8 | Arcade game character with a propeller beanie |
| 76% | JRPACMAN | 8 | 1980s arcade character with a propeller beanie |
| 57% | FLICKY | 6 | 1984 arcade game with a blue bird character |
| 57% | Q*BERT | 6 | 1980s arcade game with a cube-jumping character |
| 52% | MARIO | 5 | Video game character with a large mustache |
| 51% | YOSHI | 5 | Video game character with a long, sticky tongue |
| 51% | SIM | 3 | Video game character with a plumbob above their head |
| 49% | SKEEBALL | 8 | Arcade game with a ramp |
| 48% | QBERT | 5 | Classic arcade game character who hopped around a pyramid |
| 48% | MSPACMAN | 8 | 1980s arcade game featuring a yellow character with a bow: 2 wds. |
| 47% | PACMAN | 6 | Arcade game with a yellow smiley eating dots |
| 47% | DDR | 3 | Arcade game with a floor pad, for short |
| 47% | BUFFED | 6 | Game character improved with a spell or potion |
| 47% | MARBLEMADNESS | 13 | '80s arcade game with a rolling ball |
| 47% | PAC | 3 | ___-Man (1980s arcade game with a maze) |
| 47% | DIGDUG | 6 | Classic arcade game with a subterranean setting |
| 46% | PAC | 3 | ___-Man, famous arcade game character who is associated with the color at 42a |
| 45% | NBAJAM | 6 | Classic arcade game with a glass backboard that shatters |
| 45% | AIRHOCKEY | 9 | Table-based arcade game with paddles and a puck |
| 45% | YOSHI | 5 | Video-game character with a prehensile tongue |
| 44% | PAC | 3 | "___-Man" (arcade game with a yellow character) |
| 44% | DND | 3 | Game with a 56-Across character class, for short |
| 43% | MARIO | 5 | "The Godfather" author who shares his name with a video game character |
| 43% | DIG | 3 | ___ Dug, '80s maze arcade game with a "Stranger Things" episode named after it |
| 43% | FROGGER | 7 | “The arcade game with the most ways to die,” per a 1982 review |
| 42% | QBERT | 5 | Video game with a cube-hopping character |
| 41% | MARIO | 5 | First video game character to be honored with a figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum |
| 41% | PAC | 3 | Arcade game character ___-Man |
| 41% | IGOR | 4 | Character with a prominent back |
| 41% | LOWERCASELETTER | 15 | Character with a descender, perhaps |