3.9 - What is "rolling a game over?" (Playing Pinball)
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This article is from the General Pinball FAQ, by Keith Johnson keefer@access.digex.net with numerous contributions by others.
3.9 - What is "rolling a game over?" (Playing Pinball)
Quite simply, this is what happens when your score becomes more digits than
the machine can handle. On today's machines, this commonly happens at 10B
points. However, ST:TNG and all machines after it (from Williams/Bally)
handle 10B+ scores, so rolling over the game will become quite a bit more
difficult. The upper limit is currently not known, though, since 100B scores
have been reported.
Sega games simply stop scoring at 9,999,999,990. Starting with Corvette,
Williams/Bally games (at least in single-player mode, don't know about
others) will actually display 10B+ scores during the game.
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