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It is one of Atari's best selling games of all time! |
Asteroids is a popular vector-based video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari. The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games.
Asteroids was inspired, in a roundabout way, by the seminal Spacewar!, the first computer-based video game. In the early 1980s a stand-up arcade game version was produced as Space Wars, which included a number of optional versions and added a floating asteroid as a visual device. Asteroids is essentially a one-player version of Spacewar!, featuring the "wedge" ship from the original and promoting the asteroids to be the main opponent.
The game was conceived by Lyle Rains and programmed and designed by Ed Logg. Asteroids was a hit in the United States and became one of Atari's best selling games of all time. Atari had been in the process of releasing another vector beam game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high they simply converted all production to Asteroids, even disassembling many Lunar Landers in the procee. Today the Lunar Lander version is difficult to find. Asteroids was so popular that video arcade owners usually had to install larger boxes to hold all the coins this machine raked in.
GAME COMMANDS
[LEFT ARROW] Turn left
[RIGHT ARROW] Turn right
[UP ARROW] Thrust forward
[SPACE] Fire missile
[SHIFT] Hyperspace
[P] Pause/unpause game
[Q] Quit game
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