Asteroids
Asteroids is a 1979 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. It was released by Taito and Sega in Japan. 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 the asteroids and saucers while avoiding colliding with either or being hit by the saucers' counterfire. The game becomes more difficult as the number of asteroids increases.
About the game
- Publisher / author
- Atari
- Genre
- shooter game, science fiction video game
- Original title
- Asteroids
On a phone, use the on-screen controls. For ZX Spectrum, open the keyboard if needed and choose the control scheme in the game menu.
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- Asteroids — Wikidata · Wikidata contributors · CC0
- Asteroids · Wikipedia contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 (revision 154764461)Text may have been shortened and edited for this card. Reused passages are available under the stated license.
- Asteroids (video game) · Wikipedia contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 (revision 1381083620)Text may have been shortened and edited for this card. Reused passages are available under the stated license.
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