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Space Invaders

British  

noun

  1. a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft

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Their algorithm even holds its own in video games like Space Invaders.

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So people are coming up slapping you on the back, space invaders like you can’t believe.

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The most novel twist in this invasion story is that, interstellar travel being what it is, the space invaders aren’t expected to arrive for 400 years.

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