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Asteroids (video game)

Asteroids
An arcade cabinet over a background of asteroids in rings around a planet. The Asteroids logo and details about the game are seen at the bottom of the flyer.
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)Arcade
Atari 7800
Atari Corporation
Designer(s)Lyle Rains
Ed Logg
Platform(s)Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Game Boy
ReleaseArcade
Atari 2600
  • NA: July 1981
Atari 8-bit
Atari 7800
Game Boy
Genre(s)Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc.[4] The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the 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.

Asteroids was conceived during a meeting between Logg and Rains, who decided to use hardware developed by Howard Delman previously used for Lunar Lander. Asteroids was based on an unfinished game titled Cosmos; its physics model, control scheme, and gameplay elements were derived from Spacewar!, Computer Space, and Space Invaders and refined through trial and error. The game is rendered on a vector display in a two-dimensional view that wraps around both screen axes.

Asteroids was one of the first major hits of the golden age of arcade games; the game sold 47,840 upright cabinets and 8,725 cocktail cabinets arcade cabinets and proved both popular with players and influential with developers. In the 1980s it was ported to Atari's home systems, and the Atari VCS version sold over three million copies.[5] The game was widely imitated, and it directly influenced Defender,[6] Gravitar, and many other video games.

  1. ^ "Video Game Flyers: Asteroids, Atari, Inc. (UK)". The Arcade Flyer Archive. Killer List of Videogames. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  2. ^ Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 40–1. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  3. ^ Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. pp. 34–5, 40–1. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  4. ^ "Production Numbers" (PDF). Atari. 1999. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference RacingTheBeam was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "The Making of Defender". Retro Gamer. No. 55. Imagine Publishing. October 2008. pp. 34–39.
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