There were Secret Levels and Expert Levels hidden in the game.
Shooting Orange Boxes, Targets, and 1 ups while on instruction screens would add more points and ultimately more coins to your total.
There were 40 normal levels of Astro Barrier.
There were 10 secret levels and 9 expert levels.
Pressing "1", "2", or "3" before clicking "Start" would start you at a later level. For example, pressing "1" will start you at level 10.
Shots were not reset between level transitions, which means if you managed to shoot on a level transition (either by using a blaster or by making so in a tutorial screen), you could make your shot last through to the next level.
There was a bug during the Holiday Party 2019 and 2020 which made the game unavailable to play. This was fixed on December 21, 2019 (2019) and after the party ended and the HTML5 account transfer (2020).[1]