It seems to me that while Japanese are historically great players, they seem to have greater regard for games, and are more interested in playing them than beating them. Hence, there's less of a quarter pinch.
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It's some path you can take over and over that replenishes health quicker than it ticks out if I recall correctly and Atari found out about it and sent out a revision rom to "fix" it. I saw a bit about it in a history video once but I don't have it bookmarked. If anyone knows it, post it here.
I looked in a rather extensive gamefaq entry (http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/583775-gauntlet/faqs/13973), and maybe it is this:
Ok, so scoring health is bad, so that means that death will come, always, since you can't stop your score from increasing, right?
Well, most people thought so, however there were some players who, apparently when they were very bored, wanted to find out what would happen if your score became VERY VERY high. They might have actually had other players join in, just to see if the game would always have no food. Whoever did this, is a genius. Anyway, at 16,384 * 128 (love that binary !), which is 2.1 million, apparently something really strange happens. It seems as if a comparison "overflows"...whatever is calculating how much food is removed, probably overflows at bit 7 *128* times your score, and resets here (Atari never figured someone would get this far on 1 credit !), and suddenly the games will give you the **MAXIMUM** possible food per level. The monsters STILL generate very very fast, though. And at 16,384 * 256 (4.2 million), as we all know, 255 is the highest value that can be expressed in 8 bits, so at 256, apparently the memory location resets to 0. What this means is, the ENTIRE GAME Difficulty just totally resets here....its as if you had just started over (meaning, monsters suddenly generate VERY VERY slowly, although thief still appears every level). But this means that you will be hit by starvation again as your score continues to increase, just like before.  So once again, food is taken out heavily, by about 4.4 million points. Now, doing some simple logic tells you that you will ONCE AGAIN start receiving all the food at 4.2 million + 2.1 million, = 6.3 million. A cycle, right?
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So once again, food is taken out heavily, by about 4.4 million points. Now, doing some simple logic tells you that you will ONCE AGAIN start receiving all the food at 4.2 million + 2.1 million, = 6.3 million. A cycle, right?
