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* PortingDisaster: Creator/{{Atari}} attempted to port the game straight from the 8-bit computer version to the UsefulNotes/Atari5200, but unfortunately didn't take into account the bad analog joystick controls of the 5200, thus it was prevented from release. A clone game for the 5200 called ''Meteorites'' was released instead by a third-party company.

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* PortingDisaster: Creator/{{Atari}} attempted to port the game straight from the 8-bit computer version to the UsefulNotes/Atari5200, Platform/Atari5200, but unfortunately didn't take into account the bad analog joystick controls of the 5200, thus it was prevented from release. A clone game for the 5200 called ''Meteorites'' was released instead by a third-party company.
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* TropeNamer: AsteroidsMonster
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Misuse. Trope has been made flame bait anyway.


* WhatAnIdiot: In RealLife, asteroid fields are much more expansive and uncrowded than their usual presentation in fiction; but since this game ''is'' fiction... who parks their spaceship ''in the middle of one!?''
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* WhatAnIdiot: In RealLife, asteroid fields are much more expansive and uncrowded than their usual presentation in fiction; but since this game ''is'' fiction... who parks their spaceship ''in the middle of one?''

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* WhatAnIdiot: In RealLife, asteroid fields are much more expansive and uncrowded than their usual presentation in fiction; but since this game ''is'' fiction... who parks their spaceship ''in the middle of one?''one!?''

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* PortingDisaster: Atari attempted to port the game straight from the 8-bit computer version to the UsefulNotes/Atari5200, but unfortunately didn't take into account the bad analog joystick controls of the 5200, thus it was prevented from release. A clone game for the 5200 called ''Meteorites'' was released instead by a third-party company.

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* PortingDisaster: Atari Creator/{{Atari}} attempted to port the game straight from the 8-bit computer version to the UsefulNotes/Atari5200, but unfortunately didn't take into account the bad analog joystick controls of the 5200, thus it was prevented from release. A clone game for the 5200 called ''Meteorites'' was released instead by a third-party company.


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* WhatAnIdiot: In RealLife, asteroid fields are much more expansive and uncrowded than their usual presentation in fiction; but since this game ''is'' fiction... who parks their spaceship ''in the middle of one?''
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I have found out that in real life, asteroid fields are expansive and uncrowded, so they're not as dangerous as depicted in media


* WhatAnIdiot: Seriously, who parks their spaceship ''in the middle of an asteroid field?''
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* WhatAnIdiot: Seriously, who parks their spaceship ''in the middle of an asteroid field?''
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* TropeNamer: AsteroidsMonster

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* GoddamnedBats: The small [=UFOs.=]

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The small [=UFOs.=]=]
** The small asteroids, if you let them get out of hand.
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* PortingDisaster: Atari attempted to port the game straight from the 8-bit computer version to the UsefulNotes/Atari5200, but unfortunately didn't take into account the bad analog joystick controls of the 5200, thus it was prevented from release. A clone game for the 5200 called ''Meteorites'' was released instead by a third-party company.

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* GoddamnBats: The small UFOs.

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* GoddamnBats: The small UFOs.[=UFOs.=]
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* GoddamnBats: The small UFOs.

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