Maybe the developers wanted to be able to impress all the ladies at the arcade. Plus you can quickly prove to friends that you worked on the game by skipping to the credits.
Am I the only one who thinks this is beautiful? Can you imagine how orgasmic it would be if you could find someone obsessed with beating this game plonking quarter after quarter into it's hungry maw only to have you walk up and beat it in under 20 seconds on ONE FUCKING QUARTER? That my friends is the kind of thing that pushes people over the edge, the only thing left is to decide if he wants to kill himself or everyone in the arcade.
Here's what I thought I was looking at: an overweight black man with Jheri curls running through a prison collecting gold chains while the Royal Riders of the Red Robe throw drumsticks at him