As many of you may or may not know, if you end up defeating reactor 9 in Total Nuclear Annihilation, you have successfully destroyed everything. This includes yourself. The game ends, killing your flippers and giving you a “Total Annihilation Bonus”. This bonus is a accumulation of all the destroy values that you earned throughout your journey defeating all 9 of the reactors, including the multiplier values while destroying. This bonus value will be very substantial. Since you have killed everything, including yourself at this point, any balls or extra balls that you have left over will be drained as well, but will give you the “Total Annihilation Bonus” for each left over ball. Again, this is huge.
This brings me to my next fun bit of information. In the TNA service mode, there is a setting called “Annihilation After Reactor” and this is set to 9 by default. This will allow the operator to adjust after which reactor when Total Annihilation occurs.
For 1 reactor battles against your buddies, simply set this service menu setting to 1. This will make reactor 1 the last reactor needed to beat the game. This will force you to play more efficiently than your opponents. The key thing to winning 1 reactor battles is you want to max out your reactor value, destroy the reactor in multiball, and do all of that on your first ball. Whoever can do this the best wins.
Have fun!
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