The reset for the score counters comes from the normally closed side of the
coin switch...in effect yet another Atari design that was designed to never
work from day 1! They probably didn't care that the score came up randomly
at power up because the first coin fixed it (and the prototype probably
always came up with actual numbers instead of odd characters).
Goes right up there with other stupid designs like Sprint 8 (software quit
looking at coin inputs if someone pressed the track-change switch) and
Breakout (doesn't reset bricks if game started with serve button pressed).
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