Atari 2600

Asteroids

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 (Asteróides)" -- Brazilian Polyvox release

Part of the Following Group

• Asteroids variants

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User Reviews

Addictive and fun title, which shines in simplicity.	stvedder (6250)
This is the game I would shovel snow 2 miles uphill to play	lasttoblame (392)
If you are seriously reading reviews to consider buying this game or not, truly humanity has lost all hope.	Matt Neuteboom (941)
So where is Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck at ?	DANIEL HAWKS ! (1242)
Great game. One of the only games I have worth playing on the emulators.	Alex K. (3)	unrated

The Press Says

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

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Trivia

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.