lot on this stage. also, regardless of if you have 50 lives or just 5, if the bricks reach the bottom of the screen then it’s game over. in any mode, if you die by the bricks touching the bottom or you run out of lives, you are given the chance to return to the main menu or continue with a ‘penalty’ – i’m not quite sure what this is, i think it may take points from you, but it lets you continue where you died. if you return to the main menu then you have to start at level one again.
finally, we have ‘endless’ mode. this mode pretty much 