a high-pitched scream.

There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here.

But at last, I know not how the mind-flow drifted to it, our discourse turned on the modern English literature, to keep pace […]

Some of the most playable games tend to be those that've been around the longest: the Breakout/Arkanoid/Batty imitators for instance, or, as here, the Asteroids clones.