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The Difference Between Asteroids and Space Simulators

Both games had a thrust button that would let the players ship move in whatever direction it happened to be facing at the time. In both games, at ten thousand points, you get an extra life. Each successfully completed wave of rocks initiates a new wave. The court did did actually notice that this happens more quickly in meteors than in asteroids. So those were the similarities that the court noticed between these two games.

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