Asteroid the arcade game

During the arcade boom in to it was common to see two to three Asteroids lined up together for arcade-goers to play alongside one another. Players all over the world worked to figure out the most efficient way to destroy the asteroids and eventually settled on a play tactic called hunting. Players leave a single asteroid flying around, and hunt for the small flying saucer.

Some players were so impressive that they even began to line up bonus ships across the entire top of the screen! Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review. Developed by Addon Devs. Approximate size 1. Age rating For all ages. This app can Access your Internet connection. Permissions info. Installation Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows 10 devices.

Language supported English United States. Publisher Info Asteroids Arcade Classic support. Seizure warnings Photosensitive seizure warning. Report this product Report this game to Microsoft Thanks for reporting your concern.

Our team will review it and, if necessary, take action. Sign in to report this game to Microsoft. Both games used the high resolution, black and white vector-scan screens in which the graphics are composed of lines drawn on a vector monitor. Yet Lunar Lander never became the world-wide phenomena that Asteroids did.

Asteroids was so popular when it was released, it replaced Space Invaders as the king of the arcades and gave Atari enough cash to be financially independent from Warner. Blasting asteroids into rubble until a once-crowded screen turned into a neat black field appealed to people whose lives were nothing but a field of chaos. For them, Asteroids became a metaphor for life. Atari tried to improve on the original Asteroids game introducing Asteroids Deluxe in This version of the game offered animated graphics, better sound, and more in-depth gameplay.

It also included a color backdrop to make the game more interesting to play. Also in , Atari released Space Duel which included multi-player capability, complex physics, improved sound effects, and, most importantly, color vector graphics.

Unfortunately, Space Duel was never as popular or as well known as the original primarily due to the strangeness of the objects being blasted. No longer was the player fighting an endless armada of asteroids and UFOs, but a strange assortment of geometric shapes.

People used to rock-blasting didn't know what to make of the new game. Atari's most recent Asteroids revision came in from Atari Games.