[Orangeair]

A small correction: You die if you go over 127 lives. This is due to the fact that the game uses 8 bit signed integers to store the number of lives. You don't die immediately either, but when you do die normally, you get a game over because the game detects that you have less than zero lives remaining.

[BorisMelnik]

thank you for this. I always thought it was 100. When I was 12 I never bothered to count the symbols "crown + moon = 88" for instance :)