There definitely was an era of upping the ante in the points department in the 90s, but it didn't start there. EMs had good scores in the thousands, and later SS pins began to see scores in the hundreds of thousands, then came the million, and the system 11's had million point shots. This continued onto the era you discussed and into today, with IM having a One Hundred Million "Do or Die" shot. Have to keep upping the ante to keep the players satisfied I guess.

There was excitement over players being able to have a 1m shot. Also there is BOP's "Billionaire club" feature.

It was a ploy, and it worked. I recall playing TAF when it came out, and there was a major spike to this machine from previous ones, and I thought, “wow, I’m really good at this, I can score 50m no prob”. 50m being quite a crappy score in actuality.

I get a kick out of Congo and NGG sitting next to each other. Congo high: 1.7 Billion. NGG 70 million!!!

Jack Bot seems to take it to a pretty rediculous level, scoring everything in millions, next to Pin Bot, the lowest score on Jack would be better than the highest on Pin.

Doesn't NBA Fastbreak only score by "real" nba points, so 1, 2 or 3?

Yeah I'm not a big fan of getting 20M for plunging the ball.

I like modern Stern scoring actually - and they've been pretty consistent throughout the years.

I like the huge scores I make in No Fear!
Its hell for me to make 100 Million in Spider-Man but I enjoy that pursuit too.