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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Repeated puzzles
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George Caswell (timbuktu@adamant.res.wpi.edu) wrote:
>    The basic moral of this story-  If you knock yourself blind enough,
> everything -will- look the same.  That's just because you're not seeing
> details.

Actually, when I said (much earlier) that Space Invaders was Pong, I was 
thinking not of *similarity* but of *lineage.* That is, my guess is that 
Space Invaders was invented by someone who was largely inspired by Pong.

This maps to some famous debate in evolutionary classification, which I 
forget what it is.

--Z

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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
