[geeks] arcade collectors?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> I had a huge Atari 2600 collection in college (this was 1994, so everyone
> thought it was "SO RETRO").  Black and white TV, even. 8-)
> 
> One day I got bored.  "Hrm. 8bit.  wonder if the score will roll at
> 32768."  So, I plugged in Asteroids, found that it *did* reset to
> zero at 32768.  I considered it beat, and never played it again. 8-)

Why did you think it would roll there?  Why not at 64k, or 99,999? 


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Joshua Boyd