Asteroids (1979)
Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. and designed by Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Dominic Walsh. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire. The game becomes harder as the number of asteroids increases. (wiki)
Genres: Shooter, Survival, Arcade
Platforms: Windows, Super NES, Arcade, Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Commodore 64, TurboGrafx-16, ColecoVision
Franchise: Asteroids
Developer: Atari
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Asteroids belongs to 2 collections
1. 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (book) (public: moderated by Veterini - 4 stars)
2. Wikipedia's List of Video Games Considered the Best (public: moderated by BeeDub - 1 star)
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| Dec 01, 2020 | jzrhoades | 40 21% |
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| Dec 01, 2020 | Marc Cast | 75 64% |
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Drumpie | 31 6% |
| Nov 22, 2020 | moviepatrick | 40 31% |
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periboku | 86 84% |
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modul8ted | 35 4% |
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hotsake | 55 26% |
| Aug 08, 2020 | faxxa | 32 15% |
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Obdurate | 75 41% |
| Jun 03, 2020 | Reiden | 30 9% |
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| May 24, 2020 |  |
ShogunRua | 73 43% |
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A shooter where the ship could freely move around the entire screen was damn innovative for its time! Asteroids is a lot better than Space Invaders and still retains a little fun to this day, which is a lot more than one can say for other games from that era.
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| May 01, 2020 |  |
alanstrang | 80 54% |
| Apr 01, 2020 | Movie_Walrus | 60 46% |
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| Feb 17, 2020 | dzfsdfs | 1 0% |
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| Jan 18, 2020 | herge | 65 29% |
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boomdiddly | 68 66% |
| Jan 10, 2020 | Normy17 | 25 18% |
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| Jan 07, 2020 | davidme | 49 40% |
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| Jan 07, 2020 | nibbish | 47 14% |
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| Dec 17, 2019 | Sinuhet | 100 70% |
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MojoJoestar | 67 15% |
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TheShiznit | 35 19% |
| Dec 01, 2019 | Kaihill | 50 5% |
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| Nov 25, 2019 |  |
Jerky | 50 9% |
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Like most arcade games from the 70's and early 80's, this was frustratingly difficult. Very simple primitive graphics meant that each level was just a rehash of the last one, but with more enemies, which means that unless you have the patience of a saint or extreme focus, the game gets tedious and boring really fast. I played this maybe a handful of times on the Atari 2600, then threw it into the deep dark abyss that was my closet, never to see the light of day again!
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| Nov 23, 2019 |  |
Antonio P | 60 60% |
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I loved this back in the day. One of the first games I ever played on Atari. Again it's a game with no beginning to end unless you glitch out a high score. Which is like impossible to do because these games get super hard like after the 5th level. Like the noises and your ship blowing up.
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| Oct 27, 2019 |  |
bisterd | 73 17% |
| Oct 07, 2019 | Krankenhaus | 85 37% |
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BeeDub | 78 29% |
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gabebernal | 99 92% |
| Sep 26, 2019 | MethoSlacko | 65 15% |
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| Aug 13, 2019 | Gaffi | 80 10% |
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| May 16, 2019 | guy123 | 7 55% |
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scarletspeed | 19 5% |
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lisa- | 2 9% |
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i'm not a game historian, so we aren't going to get anywhere with this.
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xek | 6 57% |
| Mar 24, 2019 | glitchwave | 57 10% |
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| Mar 11, 2019 | li0li | 60 41% |
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Zaltys | 55 18% |
| Mar 06, 2019 | Panunzio | 73 21% |
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| Feb 09, 2019 | Flubbadu | 40 25% |
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AFlickering | 2 16% |
| Feb 07, 2019 | kupfertj | 86 85% |
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apsays | 70 72% |
| Nov 06, 2018 | ash2x3 | 74 33% |
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Kojiless | 58 48% |
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Dorkovsky | 3 24% |
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ADragon91 | 80 45% |
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AlexDourm | 4 34% |
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JSchlansky | 40 16% |
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MaeveDonley | 8 33% |
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Gauntlet | 60 4% |
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Veterini | 51 13% |
| May 19, 2018 | ezhmakov | 0 22% |
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| May 05, 2018 | jackvacton | 96 82% |
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VengefulKBM | 75 46% |
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Heliophage | 40 13% |
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Another Atari hit from the 70s. This one re-purposed the control scheme seen in earlier attempts like Computer Space into a game with more approachable and faster-paced action. I see the appeal, but I was never that good with these types of controls.
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| Apr 01, 2018 |  |
Æneαs | 75 71% |
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jeff_h | 4 15% |
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Videogirl88 | 100 91% |
| Mar 18, 2018 | thomas_d | 100 98% |
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msweller | 79 42% |
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BillyShears | 60 31% |
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Ytadel | 3 22% |
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It is what it is - playable, but in terms of space shooter arcade-type games I'd certainly go for Space Invaders or Galaga over it.
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Ocelot | 5 1% |
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Not That Hot
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hellboy76 | 63 11% |
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Ag0stoMesmer | 3 61% |
| Mar 10, 2018 |  |
TheDiceman | 75 48% |
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One of the all time greatest games ever and a personal favourite.
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| Average Percentile 34.95% from 67 Ratings |  |
