| 100% | ATARI | 5 | Game maker starting in 1972 |
| 54% | ATARI | 5 | Game company founded in 1972 |
| 53% | ATARI | 5 | Game maker since 1972 |
| 47% | ANTE | 4 | Starting bet in a card game |
| 46% | SERVES | 6 | Starts the game depicted in this puzzle |
| 46% | SPAWN | 5 | Start a life in a video game |
| 46% | ATARI | 5 | Pioneer video game maker that declared bankruptcy in January 2013 |
| 45% | ATARI | 5 | Name in video games since 1972 |
| 44% | OLDEST | 6 | In some games, the youngest not the __ start first |
| 44% | UMP | 3 | Call maker in a game, for short |
| 44% | IMIT | 4 | Starting words from the tagger in a game of tag |
| 44% | SERVE | 5 | The starting hit in a game of tennis |
| 43% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which players subtract from a starting score of 501 |
| 43% | TORRE | 5 | Starting catcher in every All-Star Game from 1964 to 1967 |
| 43% | HBO | 3 | Pay-TV channel whose first-ever broadcast, in 1972, was an NHL game |
| 43% | KICKOFF | 7 | Method of starting play in a game of football |
| 43% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which each player starts with a score of 501 |
| 42% | ATARI | 5 | Maker of many of the video games featured in "Ready Player One" |
| 42% | TAXI | 4 | 1972 Harry Chapin single that starts "It was rainin' hard in Frisco" |
| 41% | IRE | 3 | Game company, started in 1997, that released the MUD "Starmourn" in 2018 (abbr.) |
| 41% | ATARI | 5 | Maker of many of the games featured in the film "Ready Player One" |
| 40% | ROGERCLEMENS | 12 | Starting pitcher who pitched in a record 10 MLB All-Star Games (2 wds.) |
| 39% | ANTE | 4 | Remove a card before the start of the game, in Magic: The Gathering |
| 39% | BOX | 3 | Start to "car" to give a yellow train card in the board game "Ticket to Ride" |
| 38% | BUZZERS | 7 | Noise-makers in game shows |
| 38% | NIXON | 5 | He visited China in 1972 |
| 38% | MAO | 3 | Nixon visited him in 1972 |
| 38% | HASAT | 5 | Starts in on |
| 38% | ACTI | 4 | Start in literature |
| 38% | JUMP | 4 | Start in surprise |