Asteroids

Asteroids for the Atari 2600 is a port of the arcade space shooter released in November 1979. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The objective of the game is to destroy both, asteroids and saucers. The triangular ship can rotate left and right, fire shots straight forward, and thrust forward. Once the ship begins moving in a direction, it will continue in that direction for a time without player intervention unless the player applies thrust in a different direction. The ship eventually comes to a stop when not thrusting. The player can also send the ship into hyperspace, causing it to disappear and reappear in a random location on the screen, at the risk of self-destructing or appearing on top of an asteroid.

Released

1981 · see every game from that year

Modes

Single player · Multiplayer

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

Multiplayer

• Local up to 2

• AtariDeveloper · Publisher
• PolyvoxPublisher

• Action
• Science fiction
• asteroids

1. Asteroids1979
2. Asteroids Deluxe1981 · Remake
3. Blasteroids1988
4. Asteroids1998 · Remake
5. Asteroids Hyper 641999 · Remake
6. Asteroids: Evolved2007 · Remake
7. Asteroids Deluxe: Evolved2007 · Remake
8. Asteroids: Gunner2011
9. Asteroids: Outpost2015
10. Asteroid Invaders2019
11. Asteroids for GEMTBA

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