Well, to me an ending is something the game has you working to achieve. A mission, a quest. So a game over screen doesn't count as one.
I know to you guys a game over screen or a game freeze/crash from maximizing your score counts as "an ending", and it does, in the sense that you "ended" the game; but it's not an "ending" in the sense that you get an animation/music/reward for completing whatever mission you were supposed to do, which is what I'm after.
And ET and Smurf:RIGC do have an ending, that animation you get when you complete your mission. It doesn't END the game since you can continue repeating the process, but it is an ENDING or conclusion to the story/mission/quest you set out to do.
Yeah, that pissed me off. Other games did something similar like that. Indiana Jones shows you the exact same opening animation, Solaris (friggin omg hard game) also shows you the same title screen but with little men on the field, James Bond also recycles the title screen (even with the stupid difficulty setting on the bottom) but with the score on top.
I didn't force you to click on the Spike's Peak link