Atariperson23

Be glad we're not limited to 9999 like Asteroids on the 2600   Or 255 like the mazes in PacMan,

That's why even though I score a million,...My score shows 1.

Not sure why it sometimes shows 20, and my game only lasted 17 seconds, though

Haha! 

A lot of games will even stop at that score count-I started calling any game that "stopped" at a certain score point "Nine Lining it"(even if it wasn't actually nines...). I think it stuck, at least with a few friends!

I used a stack of quarters as a counter, to keep up with my rollovers on Burgertime(MAME), still have all seven!

(Actually, eight...I was overly optimistic, I suppose...)

On that game in particular-someone with a score of 1,000,001 points is going to tabulate on the games scoreboard as one point, so someone with a ten thousand point game would still have the high score...

"Good" players would just play to the late 900k's, and stop playing, to get the top scoreboard spot on a machine.