
Asteroids
- Release Date
- January 1, 1995
- Developer
- Sinister Games
- Publisher
- Atari, Inc.
- Genre
- Shooter
Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979[1] 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...
Overview
In Asteroids, Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979[1] 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. Asteroids was conceived during a meeting between Logg and Rains and used...
Release Information
- Release Date
- January 1, 1995
- Developer
- Sinister Games
- Publisher
- Atari, Inc.
- Genre
- Shooter
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