Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.

Like several other stars such as Denebola and Deneb, it is named for the Arabic word for " tail " ( deneb ); its traditional name means " the tail of the kid ".

Like many programming languages, Perl has mechanisms to use external libraries of code, making one file contain common routines used by several programs.

Like many other Chinese historical figures, Chiang used several names throughout his life.

After several script rewrites and changes, including a second title change to Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends and premiered on NBC's coveted Thursday 8: 30 pm timeslot.

Like any conspiracy theory, it contains several grains of truth ; and like any such theory, it is both irrational and insidious.

Like the Great Garden, the Berggarten also consists of several parts, for example the Paradies and the Prairie Garden.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

Like many of Dick's novels, it utilizes an array of science fiction concepts and features several layers of reality and unreality.

Like most Klingons, Martok had a disdain for Ferengi, which manifested itself in several refusals to even acknowledge Nog, who at the time was a Starfleet Cadet.

Like Thorne Smith, Tim works in an advertising agency, and several scenes are set there, drawing on the author's experience.

Like several other people working at the mill, these two workers were discharged veterans of the Mormon Battalion.

Like many other large mammals, hippos are described as K-strategists, in this case typically producing just one large, well-developed infant every couple of years ( rather than large numbers of small, poorly developed young several times per year as is common among small mammals such as rodents ).

Like several other notable British authors of his time, Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

Like many other works in Beethoven's career, Fidelio went through several versions before achieving full success.

Like ATRAC1 and MP3, ATRAC3 is also a hybrid subband-MDCT encoder, but with several differences.

Like many towns in the Willamette Valley, Tigard was originally settled by several families, the most noteworthy of which was the Tigard family, headed by Wilson M. Tigard.

Like several others under Bragg's command, he urged an immediate follow-up attack to recapture Chattanooga, which had fallen a few weeks before.

Like the board game, several variants were also released.

Like many other technological innovations, each of several companies made an attempt to produce a television recording standard that the majority of the world would embrace.

Like other nuclear receptors, the androgen receptor protein consists of several functional domains: the transactivation domain ( also called the transcription-regulation domain or the amino / NH2-terminal domain ), the DNA-binding domain, the hinge region, and the steroid-binding domain ( also called the carboxyl-terminal ligand-binding domain ).

Like Christianity, Judaism developed several responses to this unprecedented phenomenon.

Like several other nuclear powers, but unlike China, India and North Korea, the United States has never made a no first use pledge, maintaining that pledging not to use nuclear weapons before an opponent would undermine their deterrent.

He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as " The Howling Man ", " Miniature ", " Printer's Devil ", and " Number Twelve Looks Just Like You ", but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death.

Like many famous artists, Poe's works have spawned innumerable imitators.

Like the narrator in Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart ", the narrator of " The Black Cat " has questionable sanity.

Like many of Poe's tales, " The Masque of the Red Death " has also been interpreted autobiographically.

Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman.

Like many other Poe poems including " The Raven ", " Ulalume ", and " To One in Paradise ", " Annabel Lee " follows Poe's favorite theme: the death of a beautiful woman, which Poe called " the most poetical topic in the world ".

Like Poe's novel, Verne attempted to present an imaginative work of fiction as a believable story by including accurate factual details.

Like many of Poe's later poems, " Ulalume " has a strong sense of rhythm and musicality.

Like many of Poe's works, " The Light-House " has been studied autobiographically.

Like his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Like Brookside, Eastenders had a more gritty premise than Coronation Street, although unlike Brookside it tended to steer clear of blue language and politicised stories.

Like mythos, legends are stories that are traditionally considered true, but are set in a more recent time, when the world was much as it is today.

Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employed satire, in this case to show the stupidity and avarice of a certain type of athlete.

Lardner went on to write such well-known stories as " Haircut ", " Some Like Them Cold ", " The Golden Honeymoon ", " Alibi Ike ", and " A Day with Conrad Green ".

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

" Eshaghian's documentary, Be Like Others, chronicles a number of stories of Iranian gay men who feel transitioning is the only way to avoid further persecution, jail and / or execution.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

Like all Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, most of the Kwakwaka ' wakw tribes have stories about their people surviving the flood.

" Like all of Buechner's stories, this one will make you laugh and cry.

Like the oldest in Ohio County, it is a Greek Revival building with two stories and a Doric portico supported by fluted columns ; it has ornamental iron stairs and a clock tower.

Like many stories dealing with knowledge of future events, " The Minority Report " questions the existence of free will.

He wrote about this world in novels and short stories, including Times Like These ( 1936 ) which explores the life of a working-class family during the 1926 miners ' strike.

Like many old buildings, Ordsall Hall has stories of hauntings.

Like the majority of Australians, Lawson lived in a city, but had had plenty of experience in outback life, in fact, many of his stories reflected his experiences in real life.

Asher proposed to call the disorder " Munchausen Syndrome ," commenting: " Like the famous Baron von Munchausen, the persons affected have always travelled widely ; and their stories, like those attributed to him, are both dramatic and untruthful.

Like their previous albums, Catch Without Arms was a concept album ; however, differing from the concrete stories and events surrounding their earlier releases, Catch Without Arms was about opposites, mainly focused on positives and negatives.

Wells also used the concept of parallel universes as a consequence of time as the fourth dimension in stories like The Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes ; " Add a fourth dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other ".

Like It's a Wonderful Life, The Big Time, and many other time travel stories using this concept, it is clear that these alternative presents / futures are mutually exclusive with the protagonists ' own — so, strictly speaking, the universes are not parallel in that they cannot co-exist, rather they oscillate between one or the other.

Like his previous works, the theme is very much morality, even where the stories themselves have a tendency to describe rather immoral behaviour.

Like other early science fiction writers of the period, he was influenced by the stories of Jules Verne, whose technological adventure novels had become popular in translation in the rapidly modernising Meiji era Japan.

Like most of the Man-Kzin Wars short stories, its canonicity is unknown.

Like those of Miss Lemon and Arthur Hastings, the role of Inspector Japp in Poirot's career has been exaggerated by adaptations of Christie's original novels ; specifically by the TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot, where these characters are often introduced into stories that did not originally feature them.

Like the two Troubles stories it was collected as a graphic novel in 1990, but religious protests led to it being quickly withdrawn from sale, apparently on the orders of publisher Robert Maxwell.