# The Powerball · freeze them all

a mechanic of the BJK (Bomb Jack, Tehkan arcade 1984) game-world — emergence: electrical. moniker ⟦The Powerball:BJK:ce0108⟧

**mechanic —** a scoring mechanic of the cabinet, distilled into an ACI; the system itself made a character.

**who —** The Powerball — the bouncing 'P' that appears when the bonus meter fills (a lit bomb adds 1, an unlit half a point; it arrives at 10).
**what —** The cash-in: grabbing it freezes every enemy, which Jack collects as coins climbing 100, 200, on up to 600 (capped — no doubling).
**where —** Bouncing onto the screen at the meter's peak.
**why —** Because the danger needs a moment of reversal — a brief window where the hunters become points.
**how —** By freezing the board on pickup and letting Jack convert the frozen foes into an escalating coin ladder.

**the seal —** Fill the meter and I bounce in. Grab me and the killers freeze into coins — a hundred, two, on up to six. Spend the window well.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of Bomb Jack (Tehkan, arcade 1984) under the DLW standard —
> commentary and cataloguing, rendered not invented, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© Tehkan / Tecmo).

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