I don't know if this is a known feature/bug in the real game or not. Though I played the game many times, I couldn't get the self playing to happen twice.
I was using an unofficial UI version of MAME 163 with no downloaded file for Breakout; it is strange that I can play the game through the UI without downloading the game. What happened was, the game seemed to be running fine, just slow and I was playing poorly and did not reach the 6th row of bricks for many credits in a row. I just had another game-over, and inserted more credits, pressing the one and control keys several times to try to speed up the serving of the ball like I always do, when I noticed the ball bouncing and breaking bricks at the top section of the screen. At first I thought the attract mode was running, then I realized that I could move the paddle at the bottom of the screen, and points were made for every block the ball broke. The ball broke through the bottom row of bricks, and I could hit it back up to destroy more of them. I almost beat the stage, then had a game-over as usual.
The attract mode is entirely different, the paddle is as wide as the screen and the ball goes through the blocks bouncing off the ceiling and making no points.
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