Because of the game's success, a sequel followed in 1981 dubbed Asteroids Deluxe.

Because of the game's popularity, rumors about glitches and secrets spread rapidly after its release.

Because programming space was at a premium, it saved on resources to have most of the game's story printed out in a separate manual rather than store it within the game's code itself.

Because of this, DoctorM64 has put out a what would amount to a minigame, called Metroid: Confrontation, to test the game's engine and acquire feedback from his fanbase.

Because of the timeskip between titles, a few of the characters have been redesigned to fit in the game's year.

Because the position requires a comprehensive understanding of the game's strategies, the pool of former catchers yields a disproportionate number of Major and Minor-League managers, including such prominent examples as Connie Mack, Steve O ' Neill, Al Lopez, Yogi Berra, Mike Scioscia, and Joe Torre.

Because of the game's delay in being developed, its release was after the PlayStation 2's release, which created some negative feedback, particularly about the game's graphics.

Because of its function as a wall, players can use it to create maps smaller than the default dimension the map editor provides, something that was not possible in the game's predecessor.

Because of the game's flight code, Goulian was able to execute aerobatic maneuvers within less than three minutes of playing the game ; he later performed his " entire basic aerobatic routine ".

Because the game's plot involved time travel, the time-traveling secondary antagonist Doctor Nefarious Tropy was created.

Because of the limitations of the game's engine, the characters are only seen in prerendered cutscenes, and then as figures constructed of colored but untextured (" flat ") polygons.

Because the servers were beginning to get flooded, the game's administrators shut down new character registration for over a week, with an explanatory note.

Because the Voodoo Graphics and the Voodoo Rush were the only 3dfx cards available at the time of the game's release, and because Electronic Arts did not future-proof the game's installer, later 3dfx graphics card models such as the Voodoo 2 are not detected during the NFS II SE installation process ( a pop-up will confirm 3dfx detection ).

Because of this, power struggles are constantly raging between the game's corporations, pirate clans, Bora colonists, and the so-called " Asteroid Barons ".

Because he thought much of his artwork from the original Mega Man was not aging well, Inafune redrew many of his old illustrations to be used for the game's enemy character sprites.

Because of the simplicity of the game's structure, all of the supplements, regardless of their " era ", could be easily re-set to suit a different era.

Because of this, many of the game's quests provide new Magnus cards as rewards, which can then be incorporated into decks as needed.

Because CCD imagers are linear, image processing may be used to subtract away the effects of light pollution, which has increased the popularity of astrophotography in urban areas.

Because of the popularity of Italian opera throughout 18th-century Europe ( except France ), singers such as Ferri, Farinelli, Senesino and Pacchierotti became the first operatic superstars, earning enormous fees and hysterical public adulation.

Because of the popularity of Edison's and Lumière's cameras, 35mm film began to become the dominant gauge.

Because of Netware's popularity through the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, IPX became a popular internetworking protocol.

Because of the popularity of ISDN, virtually all these telecommunication providers bundle their products with residential gateways that include both integrated analog telephony adapters and ISDN-NGN adapters.

Because of his popularity as a portrait painter, Reynolds enjoyed constant interaction with the wealthy and famous men and women of the day, and it was he who first brought together the famous figures of " The " Club.

Because of the firm stand the king had taken, it also enhanced his popularity in the country.

Because of its popularity and recognition, the campus was visited by President Barack Obama on February 10, 2011, where he praised the development in wireless technology and promoted a National Wireless Initiative to bring high-speed Internet to 98 % of the U. S. by 2016.

Because of the popularity of XML, XQuery engines compete with object databases as a vehicle for storage of data that is too complex or variable to hold conveniently in a relational database.

Because parchment, prepared from animal hides, is far more durable than paper or papyrus, most palimpsests known to modern scholars are parchment, which rose in popularity in western Europe after the 6th century.

Because of the ferries ' popularity, many people book their ferry trip well in advance.

Because of its historic popularity as a murder weapon, thallium has gained notoriety as " the poisoner's poison " and " inheritance powder " ( alongside arsenic ).

Because of their endearing ( if quirky ) personalities and widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture in particular and the British people in general.

Because of their popularity in northern China, stick-handled woks are often referred to as " pao woks " or " Peking pans ".

Because of Holland's continuing participation in the club, the CCC gained popularity and credibility.

Because of the tempo of the music, the theme gained popularity in the UK with followers of Northern soul and was popular on dance floors in the 1970s.

Because of the popularity of the Internet, many desirable domain names are already assigned and users must search for other acceptable names, using Web-based search features, or WHOIS and dig operating system tools.

Because of their popularity, trout are often raised on fish farms and planted into heavily fished waters, in an effort to mask the effects of overfishing.

Because the study of anatomy concerned observation and drawings, the popularity of the anatomist was equal to the quality of his drawing talents, and one need not be an expert in Latin to take part.

Because of tone quality issues, some C ( concert pitch ) instruments — the C melody saxophone, C soprano saxophone, and C soprano clarinet, for example — have declined in popularity in favor of the standard versions ( B soprano and tenor saxophone ; B and A clarinets ).

Because of the great popularity of the king, and the unpopularity of the civil government from the middle of 1940, the government crisis persisted.

Because of its popularity, the typeface has been influential in the subsequent development of a number of serif typefaces both before and after the start of the digital-font era.

Because of the popularity of Times Roman at the time, Monotype chose to design a variant of Times Roman suited to mathematical composition, and recut many additional characters needed for mathematics, including special symbols as well as Greek and Fraktur alphabets, to accompany the system instead of designing it around the typeface that was being used, for which characters were already available.

Because of the increasing popularity of NLP, scientific researchers began testing its theoretical underpinnings empirically, many of them showing a lack of empirical support for NLP's essential theories.

Because of the story's popularity, the publisher John Jewett contacted Stowe about turning the serial into a book.