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Based off the wildly popular 1979 arcade game. The object of the game is to destroy as many asteroid boulders as possible and keep your ship in space as long as possible. Use your Joystick Controller to maneuver your ship through space and press the red controller(fire) button to shoot photon torpedoes at the asteroid boulders. When an asteroid is hit, it may just break up into smaller boulders, or it may be completely pulverized. In some game variations you'll face additional space hazards such as satellites and UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects); both of which may be firing torpedoes at you.
(The following description courtesy of MobyGames via a CC license.)
Asteroids is a conversion of the arcade game of the same name.
Play the role of a spaceship pilot trapped in a gigantic asteroid cloud and pulverize incoming asteroids with the ship's photon cannon. When all asteroids are destroyed, the player can then move on to the next round. In addition to the asteroids, the player will also face an Alien Robot Saucer which shoots randomly across the screen.
The player using the controller may rotate the ship (left or right) to any direction or move the ship forward. Shots will be fired according to the ship direction. The player has three reserved ships available to replace a destroyed spaceship. The spaceship is destroyed if an asteroid collides with the spaceship or is shot by an Alien Robot Saucer. Additionally, the player may opt to use the hyperspace warp to avoid collision. The warp however, may also destroy the spaceship in the process.
Asteroids when shot will break-up into smaller pieces or be destroyed. There are three types of asteroids: large asteroids, medium asteroids, and small asteroids. Large asteroids and medium asteroids when shot, will break-up into two smaller sized asteroids. Small asteroids when shot will be destroyed.
Alien Robot Saucers come in two sizes: small and large. Both use photon lasers to shoot and will explode when destroyed. Alien Robot Saucers will not appear at the Novice Level.
Game Difficulty and Variations
There are 4 available difficulty settings: Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert.
The game also offers three different game variations:
Standard Play - For one or two players, taking turns when a player's ship is destroyed.
Competition Asteroids - Two players appear on the screen at the same time. Friendly fire is in affect, which means shots fired from one player's spaceship will destroy the other player's spaceship. Each player has separate ship reserves.
Team Asteroids - Two players on the screen at the same time. Friendly fire is disabled, which means shots fired from one player's spaceship will not destroy the other player's spaceship and just pass through. Ship reserves for both players are combined.
Scoring
The score of the Player 1 is viewable on the upper left side of the screen, while Player 2 on the opposite upper right side. A player will be awarded a new reserve ship for every 10,000 points.
Small saucer - 1,000 points
Other player's ship - 500 points
Large saucer - 200 points
Small asteroid - 100 points
Medium asteroid - 50 points
Large asteroid - 20 points
Based off the wildly popular 1979 arcade game. The object of the game is to destroy as many asteroid boulders as possible and keep your ship in space as long as possible. Use your Joystick Controller to maneuver your ship through space and press the red controller(fire) button to shoot photon torpedoes at the asteroid boulders. When an asteroid is hit, it may just break up into smaller boulders, or it may be completely pulverized. In some game variations you'll face additional space hazards such as satellites and UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects); both of which may be firing torpedoes at you.
(The following description courtesy of MobyGames via a CC license.)
Asteroids is a conversion of the arcade game of the same name.
Play the role of a spaceship pilot trapped in a gigantic asteroid cloud and pulverize incoming asteroids with the ship's photon cannon. When all asteroids are destroyed, the player can then move on to the next round. In addition to the asteroids, the player will also face an Alien Robot Saucer which shoots randomly across the screen.
The player using the controller may rotate the ship (left or right) to any direction or move the ship forward. Shots will be fired according to the ship direction. The player has three reserved ships available to replace a destroyed spaceship. The spaceship is destroyed if an asteroid collides with the spaceship or is shot by an Alien Robot Saucer. Additionally, the player may opt to use the hyperspace warp to avoid collision. The warp however, may also destroy the spaceship in the process.
Asteroids when shot will break-up into smaller pieces or be destroyed. There are three types of asteroids: large asteroids, medium asteroids, and small asteroids. Large asteroids and medium asteroids when shot, will break-up into two smaller sized asteroids. Small asteroids when shot will be destroyed.
Alien Robot Saucers come in two sizes: small and large. Both use photon lasers to shoot and will explode when destroyed. Alien Robot Saucers will not appear at the Novice Level.
Game Difficulty and Variations
There are 4 available difficulty settings: Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert.
The game also offers three different game variations:
Standard Play - For one or two players, taking turns when a player's ship is destroyed.
Competition Asteroids - Two players appear on the screen at the same time. Friendly fire is in affect, which means shots fired from one player's spaceship will destroy the other player's spaceship. Each player has separate ship reserves.
Team Asteroids - Two players on the screen at the same time. Friendly fire is disabled, which means shots fired from one player's spaceship will not destroy the other player's spaceship and just pass through. Ship reserves for both players are combined.
Scoring
The score of the Player 1 is viewable on the upper left side of the screen, while Player 2 on the opposite upper right side. A player will be awarded a new reserve ship for every 10,000 points.
Small saucer - 1,000 points
Other player's ship - 500 points
Large saucer - 200 points
Small asteroid - 100 points
Medium asteroid - 50 points
Large asteroid - 20 points
Asteroids is a classic arcade game released by Atari in 1979. It was one of their most popular titles of all time. It was inspired by one of the earliest examples of a video game, Spacewar.The object of the game is to control a triangular space ship in the vast emptiness of space, shooting asteroids as they came in to the screen. Title: Asteroids - Arcade - Manual - gamesdatabase.org Author: gamesdatabase.org Subject: Arcade game manual Keywords: MAME Arcade 1979 Atari Shooter system game manual.
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Name: Asteroids Manufacturer: Atari Year: 1979 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release Genre: Space Monitor:
Game Specific: Asteroids Pinout Settings: Asteroids Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) Scopely wwe champions support. The Facts and Friends mode adds a whole new social feature that keeps all the player involved by encouraging the player to guess his opponent to answer these questions. Trivial Pursuit offers more prominent features such as unlock more questions, different locations, challenge his friends, extra points and lots of other things, etc. Cabinet Styles:
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Asteroids DescriptionAsteroids was produced by Atari in 1979. Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Other machines made by Atari during the time period Asteroids was produced include Atari Soccer, Atari Football, Hercules, Superman, Road Runner, Orbit, Wolf Pack, Super Breakout, Smokey Joe, and Consolette 2000. Your space craft is dangerously situated among fast moving asteroids in an asteroid belt that can destroy your ship on contact. Armed with a front mounted weapon and the ability to hyperspace, you fly through the debris, destroying each rock one piece at a time. Alien saucers visit the playfield from time to time with an eye towards destroying your ship! Asteroids - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.93 (32 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, 'Like' carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe first Asteroids cabinets used a different coin-door. The quarters were placed through one of two round openings large enough for the quarter to fit through. The quarter is placed flat against a wall just inside the opening and released. The quarter drops down for a credit. The display showing the cost of a credit is labeled between the two coin openings. The lettering describing the game play is also in yellow instead of white on the monitor overlay. The picture of the Asteroids cabinet at the top of this page is one of these first machines.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsThe original version of the game had a feature that allowed the player to hide their ship in the score field indefinitely without being hit by flying asteroids.Game PlayThe most famous play tactic for Asteroids is the 'hunting' strategy. The player destroys all asteroids except for one that almost clears the playfield and makes it relatively safe. This allows the player to hunt for alien saucers without worrying about being smashed by a lot of flying debris.MiscellaneousPlay a free version of Asteroids at the official Atari site: http://www.atari.com/arcade/asteroids. Asteroids is available on the iPad and iPhone via Atari's Greatest Hits application. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Asteroids CensusThere are 10,964 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 8,792 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 146,948 machines (6,416 unique titles).Very Common - There are 1014 known instances of this machine owned by Asteroids collectors who are active members. Of these, 941 of them are original dedicated machines, 6 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 66 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 42 active VAPS members with Asteroids machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with extra Asteroids circuit boards for sale. Wanted - Very Popular - There are 34 active VAPS members currently looking for Asteroids. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Asteroids board sets. This game ranks a 96 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 59 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThe Wells-Gardner 19V2000 black and white vector monitor is a direct plug-in replacement monitor for an Asteroids machine. The pinout is almost identical to Asteroids Deluxe.TriviaAfter its release in the US, many arcade operators had to make larger coin boxes for the games so they could hold all of the quarters that these machines collected.Legacy
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