TA's Pitfall2 Recording - What's Going On?

Here I was wondering how T. Alex could get 3 times the score that anyone else has got. So I watched their recording. Everything looked kosher until stage 2 after the player had touched the crystal ball which plants the key to end the level. The player then worked their way down to the last crystal on the right hand side above the water and then waited until the time hit 3:00 and collected the crystal. Normally collecting a crystal adds 30 seconds of time. This time the bats also turned a funny colour. Sounds harmless enough. The player then climbs down a ladder to the bats and lets them run into him!!! Each bat touched gets 1000 pts and makes the same sound that you get when you collect a crystal - and the player doesn't die. This effect seemed only to last when the time was in the 3+ minutes. The player collected some other crystals to keep the time in the 3+ minutes. After a while the effect wore off and the bats looked normal again. The player seemed to behave funny sometimes - would go off the screen and then come back for no apparent reason or would not touch a bat even though it was a funny colour. Anyone know what's going on here? I've never seen this before. It doesn't appear to be an intended feature of the game. How does it work?

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