[ASUfool]

>if you ended with the game with specific scores, different things would happen. The most notorious, was it would grant 40 credits to the game.

I must thank you for that nugget as a HS friend and I inherited the 40 game jackpot a couple times and had no idea how. Any memory of what some of those specific scores were?

[whartung]

Yea, I stumbled upon those as well. It was like "I can have the last piece of pizza" moment, looking around, nobody is missing this, "well, ok...".

As I recall it as a score over 170,000 and ended with a 17. That gave you the 40 credits.

The level skip was 46, but it was tricky.

If you did the 17 trick, then that happened right away.

The 46 trick, you had to wait for once complete cycle of attract mode. You know that it worked because whatever level it was playing in attract mode, when it continued to the next level, the level was wrong. Like, it would start playing the circle, and then jump to the clover, rather than the square.

But, we "never" let that happen, because if you let it go through attract mode, you'd lose all of your level progress. So, we didn't let it do that. That's why it was trick to find what 46 did (and, trust me, we tried them all! lol).

Others are mentioned on the wikipedia page, where it mentions "some ROMs were shipped with glitches". Glitches!? HA! no, likely these were put it perhaps for debugging, but that's not clear. I think it was the coders pulling one over on management, personally. Whatever they were, they were consciously done. These weren't "glitches" or bugs.