> I got so good at "Timber" that the Aladdin's Castle put a "Kill" switch in to reset > the game after I played it for "X" minutes.
It seems more likely that the game was just prone to resetting periodically. It's a pretty common fault. In the documentary High Score, it happens repeatedly to the guy going for a Missile Command record. I think at one point he was like 12 hours in when the machine decided to reset. I would have lost my mind at that point.