Asteroids

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Published by

Atari, Inc.

Developed by

Atari, Inc.

Released

1981

Platforms

Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit

Genre

Action

Perspective

3rd-Person Perspective

Non-Sport

Arcade, Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Shooter

Misc

Coin-Op Conversion

	MobyRank	MobyScore
Atari 2600	...	3.5

Atari 7800	...	3.8

Atari 8-bit	...	2.2

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Trivia

The original Coin-Op game of Asteroids in the arcade machines contained 4 kilobytes of code and 4 kilobytes of graphic data. Programmers managed to squeeze it in to 1 kilobyte of data for the Atari 2600!

Contributed by Santa

(847) on Dec 14, 2006.

Internally at Atari the two flavours of UFO in Asteroids (slow and fast) were referred to as "Mr. Bill" and "Sluggo", after characters in Saturday Night Live skits. After this was disclosed in an interview, Atari was sent a cease-and-desist letter by NBC's lawyers.

Contributed by Pseudo_Intellectual (34143) on Nov 01, 2006.

Asteroids was one of the "Fabulous Eleven" launch games for the Atari 7800.

Contributed by PCGamer77

(3025) on Jun 13, 2005.

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

Contributed by Guy Chapman (1722) on Feb 25, 2005.

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