Got another nerdy question for you Rob. I've played this a few times, but not enough to notice what is the smallest increment in the scores. In other words is the smallest bump 100 points, 1000 points or some other number? I would assume that any time you hit something its got to be more that +1 in your score.
I think one way to know is the list of scores at the end. It looks like the last 2 digits are always 00. So that would indicate that the smallest increment in scores when you hit anything is 100 (or some higher multiple of that).
Here's where it gets really nerdy (and feel free to ignore me!). I suspect the counter has a fault when it tries to increment past the number 2,097,100. In binary (the way computers work) that number is
1 1111 1111 1111 1100 1100. It almost fills up the lower 21 bits completely. Adding decimal 100 to that binary counter pushes it past 21 bits and should increment the 22'nd bit so it would become:
10 0000 0000 0000 0011 0000. I am guessing there is a hardware fault in that counter bit and it never increments.
Now the interesting part is that if the 22nd bit does not increment, but the lower bits continue to add up correctly, then at that point your score is 11 0000 binary, or 48 decimal. And scoring additional points would continue to show that offset of "48". So it would look like 1048, 2548, 12048, and so on. have you noticed if it does that? If it does not do that, then it could be that the lower 2 score digits are just always displayed as zeros (after conversion of the binary count).
As an engineer I've always been fascinated by any of the technology used in Disney projects and try to figure out how I would have done it.