I'm recording the crt with my phone. Quality is bad because of how bright the white lines are on the screen. Had to use the wide angle zoomed in to make out the numbers. When i take a photo i can adjust the iso and i get a nice picture, but i cant do this with the video.
We noticed the score disappearing at the end of the game on Chris (cNp's) multi-board on his Asteroids. I'm using MAME on a pi2jamma board and the score remains until you start a new game.
I'm uploading a video to youtube now so i'll have a link shortly. Then you can see my technique and improve your score. 1200 is very good anyway.