Supper Mario Broth explains an arcade oversight where hitting 980,000 points causes extra lives to overflow the counter, leading to an immediate Game Over.
One version of the Mario Bros. arcade has an oversight where reaching 980,000 points gets a Game Over.
This happens because the game starts giving Mario extra lives on every frame, overflowing the life counter.
As such, he is literally killed by being showered with extra lives.
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