Arcade Week: Day #3
Yeah it’s good and all but it doesn’t have any adorable alien names. Clearly space invaders is superior.
Atari were quite the force in the early 80’s. So it only made sense to milk that force and create as many games as possible, but remember when Atari genuinely had ideas? This is one of them. Asteroids was a game that took people by storm with its simple yet addicting gameplay. The game was conceived by Lyle rains and programmed by Ed Logg, two people who aren’t given enough respect for their work on this brilliant game. Well let’s dive in already and see their brilliant work!
You play as a triangular ship, shooting down asteroids (the name of the game) and ufo’s once they appear. You can move left and right and turn left and right (obviously) and if you try going off the map you’ll end up on the other side. You can also hyperspace which makes you disappear and then reappear (the strategy is a tiny bit risky however). You get 3-5 lives and the maximum amount of points you can get is 99,990 before the game just decides to turn you in. They can’t stand the fact that you’re a fighter (I said I wouldn’t bring space invaders and asteroids politics into this god dammit).
Overall, asteroids is still a pretty fun game. It’s simple and has aged pretty well. The programming team clearly had a blast (literally) making this and I respect what they tried to do…but space invaders is better I’m sorry!
Simple, very fun, quite addicting, space invaders is better
Yeah it’s good and all but it doesn’t have any adorable alien names. Clearly space invaders is superior.
Atari were quite the force in the early 80’s. So it only made sense to milk that force and create as many games as possible, but remember when Atari genuinely had ideas? This is one of them. Asteroids was a game that took people by storm with its simple yet addicting gameplay. The game was conceived by Lyle rains and programmed by Ed Logg, two people who aren’t given enough respect for their work on this brilliant game. Well let’s dive in already and see their brilliant work!
You play as a triangular ship, shooting down asteroids (the name of the game) and ufo’s once they appear. You can move left and right and turn left and right (obviously) and if you try going off the map you’ll end up on the other side. You can also hyperspace which makes you disappear and then reappear (the strategy is a tiny bit risky however). You get 3-5 lives and the maximum amount of points you can get is 99,990 before the game just decides to turn you in. They can’t stand the fact that you’re a fighter (I said I wouldn’t bring space invaders and asteroids politics into this god dammit).
Overall, asteroids is still a pretty fun game. It’s simple and has aged pretty well. The programming team clearly had a blast (literally) making this and I respect what they tried to do…but space invaders is better I’m sorry!
Simple, very fun, quite addicting, space invaders is better