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Stargate "BILLIONS" ?!

By Cenobyte

11 years ago


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#1 11 years ago

I have a Gottlieb Stargate for some time now and I think it's a very nice game. Usually during a good game I end up getting around 400.000.000 or 500.000.000 points. Needless to say that my game is set to "Very Hard".

Last week I had a problem with my left guard not going up when I hit it. I fixed it (spring was attached the wrong way, which shot the fuse). Fixing it, I ended up lost in the labyrinth of the Gottlieb Game Settings and I thought it might be fun to lower the settings from "Very Hard" to "Hard".

After doing that I played my first game. During game play I heard the knocker and the DMD showed "BILLIONS". Right after that, my score went from somewhere in the 60 million to 5 billion! Not sure if this was a glitch, I tried another game with the same outcome: a GC of over 6 billion points...

Does anybody know what causes this very strange score behavior? Did I enable some creepy feature that multiplies your score by 100? This really messed up my score table

#3 11 years ago

Hmm. Very strange...

Yesterday I cleared the high score table because it was totally messed up with scores over 5 billion and I reset the game settings to 'factory'. I played around 5 games and everything seems to be back to normal.

Btw: that sound I heard WAS the knocker

2 months later
#5 11 years ago

Damn, changing batteries is a bitch in this machine, isn't it? I found myself a replacement battery, but that was before I realised the battery was soldered to the CPU board...

2 months later
#28 10 years ago

I reset my machine back to factory settings a couple of months ago and did not get that weird 6 billion score again. Must be some kind of setting I messed up?

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