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Platforms
MobyRank MobyScore
Atari 2600
...
3.5
Atari 7800
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3.8
Atari 8-bit
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2.2

Description

Asteroids is a conversion of the popular arcade game. You are the pilot of a spaceship trapped in the asteroid belt, and you need to blast your way out! Each time you shoot one of the asteroids, it will break up into smaller pieces. Eventually the pieces will become small enough that they can be destroyed.

When all asteroids have been fully destroyed, you can move on to the next, more difficult round. Just in case the numerous asteroids didn't cause you enough trouble, a pesky flying saucer will appear from time to time and try to shoot your spaceship with torpedoes.

Alternate Titles

  • "Asteroids (AsterĂ³ides)" -- Brazilian Polyvox release

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User Reviews

Addictive and fun title, which shines in simplicity. Atari 2600 stvedder Bronze Star Contributing Member (6426)
This is the game I would shovel snow 2 miles uphill to play Atari 2600 lasttoblame (392)
If you are seriously reading reviews to consider buying this game or not, truly humanity has lost all hope. Atari 2600 Matt Neuteboom (941)
Not a port of it's arcade parent but an upgrade! Atari 7800 Jeff Cossey (44)
So where is Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck at ? Atari 2600 DANIEL HAWKS ! (1246)
Great game. One of the only games I have worth playing on the emulators. Atari 2600 Alex K. (3)

The Press Says

The Video Game Critic Atari 7800 May 02, 2004 A 100
Digital Press - Classic Video Games Atari 7800 Jun 26, 2006 10 out of 10 100
The Video Game Critic Atari 2600 Jun 30, 2004 A- 91
The Atari Times Atari 2600 Nov 10, 2003 88 out of 100 88
Digital Press - Classic Video Games Atari 2600 Sep 25, 2004 7 out of 10 70

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Trivia

Asteroids was popular enough to have a song inspired by it on the full-length "Pac-Man Fever" album - "Hyperspace".


This entry was contributed by ZZip (806) and Servo (51671)
 

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