Stanford CIS

SCOTUS, Asteroids, and Breakout

By Matthew Margolin on

You all probably know this, but someone alerted me to an interesting footnote of the SCOTUS EFF postion.

>This theory appears to conflate two quite different early video
>games, one called  "Breakout" and another called "Asteroids."
>Descriptions of the two games in an online  encyclopedia reveal no
>common features beyond their roughly comparable vintage.

Not critical to jurisprudence, but I'm tickled to read the passage nonetheless.

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