Apropos of nothing, these photos remind me of trying to join a "club" for the video game Pitfall (on Atari) which required sending proof of a 20,000 score by mailing them a Polaroid of your TV screen.

EDIT: Wow! I guess it's a known thing (glad I didn't imagine it): https://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/10/26/a...