416:– for instance, an asteroid that drifts off the top edge of the screen reappears at the bottom and continues moving in the same direction. As the player shoots asteroids, they break into smaller asteroids that move faster and are more difficult to hit. Smaller asteroids are also worth more points. Two flying saucers appear periodically on the screen; the "big saucer" shoots randomly and poorly, while the "small saucer" fires frequently at the ship. After reaching a score of 40,000, only the small saucer appears. As the player's score increases, the angle range of the shots from the small saucer diminishes until the saucer fires extremely accurately. Once the screen has been cleared of all asteroids and flying saucers, a new set of large asteroids appears, thus starting the next level. The game gets harder as the number of asteroids increases until after the score reaches a range between 40,000 and 60,000. The player starts with 3–5 lives upon game start and gains an extra life per 10,000 points. Play continues to the last ship lost, which ends the game. The machine "turns over" at 99,990 points, which is the maximum high score that can be achieved.
876:. Dave Shepperd edited the code and made enhancements to the game without Logg's involvement. The onscreen objects are tinted blue, and hyperspace is replaced by a shield that depletes when used. The asteroids rotate, and new "killer satellite" enemies break into smaller ships that home in on the player's position. The arcade machine's monitor displays vector graphics overlaying a holographic backdrop. The game is more difficult than the original and enables saucers to shoot across the screen boundary, eliminating the lurking strategy for high scores in the original.
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player stays near the edge of the screen opposite the saucer. By keeping just one or two rocks in play, a player can shoot across the boundary and destroy saucers to accumulate points indefinitely with little risk of being destroyed. Arcade operators began to complain about losing revenue due to this exploit. In response, Atari issued a patched
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by popularity in the United States and became Atari's best selling arcade game of all time, with over 70,000 units sold. Atari earned an estimated $ 150 million in sales from the game, and arcade operators earned a further $ 500 million from coin drops. Atari had been in the process of manufacturing
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was well received by several Atari staff and engineers, who "wander between labs, passing comment and stopping to play as they went". Logg was often asked when he would be leaving by employees eager to play the prototype, so he created a second prototype for staff to play. Atari tested the game in
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In the original game design, saucers were supposed to begin shooting as soon as they appeared, but this was changed. Additionally, saucers can only aim at the player's ship on-screen; they are not capable of aiming across a screen boundary. These behaviors allow a "lurking" strategy, in which the
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that can rotate left and right, fire shots straight forward, and thrust forward. Once the ship begins moving in a direction, it will continue in that direction for a time without player intervention unless the player applies thrust in a different direction. The ship eventually comes to a stop when
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Scoreboard searched for him for four years until 2002, when it was discovered that he had died in an accident in 1989. In a ceremony in Philadelphia on April 27, 2002, Walter Day of Twin Galaxies presented an award to the surviving members of Safran's family, commemorating his
737:'s "Classic Gaming", noticed its innovations, including being one of the first video games to track initials and allow players to enter their initials for appearing in the top 10 high scores, and commented that "the vector graphics fit the futuristic outer space theme very well". In 1995,
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Bonaventura were still attached to write and produce the film adaptation, respectively, but Emmerich passed on directing, while Evan Spiliotopoulos and F. Scott Frazier were hired to rewrite the screenplay.
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No. 46. Edwards commented that "this home cartridge is a virtual duplicate of the ever-popular Atari arcade game. If blasting asteroids is the thing you want to do then this is the game, but at this price I can't wholeheartedly recommend it".
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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. The game was widely imitated, and it directly influenced
698:. The game did not perform as well overseas in Europe and Asia. It sold 30,000 arcade units overseas, for a total of 100,000 arcade units sold worldwide. Atari manufactured 76,312 units from its US and Ireland plants, including 21,394
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Japanese market beginning to lose interest in space shoot 'em ups at the time.
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not thrusting. The player can also send the ship into hyperspace, causing it to disappear and reappear in a random location on the screen, at the risk of self-destructing or appearing on top of an asteroid.
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slows down as the player gains 50–100 lives, because there is no limit to the number of lives displayed. The player can "lose" the game after more than 250 lives are collected.
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was conceived by Lyle Rains and programmed by Ed Logg with collaborations from other Atari staff. Logg was impressed with the Atari Video
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arcade game, which was produced by another company. Atari's version proved to be a popular alternative. By the end of the year, 70,000 of the units had been shipped.
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has revamped HD graphics along with an added intense "throttle monkey" mode. The arcade and 2600 versions were made available through
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received positive reviews from video game critics and has been regarded as Logg's magnum opus. Richard A. Edwards reviewed the 1981
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machines in the United States. The game did not do as well in Europe and Asia, however. Only about 30,000 units were sold overseas.
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of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, set a new record at 41,336,440 points. In 1998, to congratulate Safran on his accomplishment, the
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technician and engineer Howard Delman contributed to the hardware. During a meeting in April 1979, Rains discussed
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series of dedicated video game consoles have included both the 2600 and the arcade versions of
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addictive gameplay of "completion" and "eliminate all threats". Both agreed on the concept.
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clones for home computers. Three clones for the Apple II were reviewed together in the 1982
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was a classic the day it was released, and it has never lost any of its appeal".
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magazine ranked the arcade version 11th on their "Top 100 Video Games". In 1996,
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Kohler, Chris (2005). "Chapter 3, Playing Arcade Games on Your
Computer".
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The Golden Age of Video Games: The Birth of a
Multibillion Dollar Industry
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February 6, 1982, Leo Daniels of Carolina Beach, North Carolina, set a
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score of 40,101,910 points. On November 13 of the same year, 15-year-old
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one of the top ten games for the Atari 2600 in 2013. It was added to the
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adjusted for inflation) by 1980. The game remained at the top of the US
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is to destroy asteroids and saucers. The player controls a triangular
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as number 29 on their "Top 50 Games of All Time", commenting that "
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Dillion, Roberto (2011). "Part 1: Games That Pushed Boundaries".
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characters "Mr. Bill" and "Sluggo" to refer to the saucers in an
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and voted one of the most popular software titles of 1978–80 by
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and refined through trial and error. The game is rendered on a
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in a two-dimensional view that wraps around both screen axes.
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were included in several Atari games compilations, such as
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as the second greatest video game of the 1970s, just below
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was implemented on hardware developed by Delman and is a
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Edwards, Richard A. (December 1981). "Capsule Reviews".
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Released in November 2007, the Xbox Live Arcade port of
3004:. Microsoft Games Global Marketing team. Archived from
2361:"Video Game Explosion! We rate every game in the world"
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High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games
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was immediately successful upon release. It displaced
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but was never released. Unofficially referred to as
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letter from a lawyer with the "Mr. Bill Trademark".
2085:. Vol. 11, no. 2. pp. 134–175 (160).
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331:. Asteroids was based on an unfinished game titled
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3483:"Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score"
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1731:Bjork, Staffan & Holopainen, Jussi (2005).
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1656:Salen, Katie & Zimmerman, Eric (2004).
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2366:Electronic Fun with Computers & Games
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727:Electronic Fun with Computers & Games
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791:All-Time 100 greatest video games list.
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2977:from the original on February 23, 2014
2852:Hieronymus, Lars (November 12, 2000).
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2790:Matt Casamassina (December 18, 1998).
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2996:Tom Eberspecher (November 26, 2007).
2885:"European Atari Jaguar Festival 2000"
2653:Chris Nashawaty (November 11, 1994).
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2946:from the original on January 8, 2014
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2655:"PC Game Review: 'Microsoft Arcade'"
2275:Retro Gamer Staff (September 2008).
2066:(2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill/Osborne.
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3202:Ahl, David; Staples, Betsy (1982).
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2720:Lance Ulanoff (November 16, 2005).
2473:Morales, Aaron (January 25, 2013).
2440:Grossman, Lev (November 15, 2012).
1788:Michael Blanchet (March 19, 1982).
1735:. Charles River Media. p. 60.
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315:which is periodically traversed by
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3493:from the original on April 7, 2010
3462:from the original on March 4, 2016
3431:from the original on July 12, 2009
3419:Chris Kohler (November 13, 2008).
3264:from the original on June 23, 2008
3254:"Mattel Intellivision - 1980-1984"
3140:"Most Popular Software of 1978-80"
2895:from the original on June 18, 2018
2883:Baranski, Björn (March 25, 2015).
2820:
2578:from the original on July 29, 2014
2568:"Everybody Doesn't Like Something"
2466:
2311:
1912:Asteroids Flyer, 1979, Atari, Inc.
1541:Chris Kohler (November 17, 2011).
1406:Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006).
1375:Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006).
639:was so high "that several hundred
539:University of California, Berkeley
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3183:from the original on May 17, 2016
3169:Williams, Gregg (December 1981).
2965:Craig Harris (November 8, 2010).
2932:Kristan Reed (January 26, 2005).
1275:. The game borrows elements from
923:published an enhanced version of
861:
678:in the United States, dethroning
528:
3586:"Asteroids - Rockin' the Arcade"
3516:
2685:Doug Perry (November 13, 1998).
2601:(1st ed.). O'Reilly Media.
2506:Stephanie Mlot (June 28, 2013).
2169:In 1980, the company introduced
2119:The Winners' Book of Video Games
1311:
973:was developed by iThink for the
506:executing the game program, and
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3393:Kit, Borys (February 5, 2015).
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2189:"RePlay: The Players' Choice".
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2013:"DP Interviews... Brad Stewart"
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3481:Chris Kohler (April 5, 2010).
3082:"Review: Asteroids: Recharged"
2574:. March 1983. pp. 22–23.
2077:Adlum, Eddie (November 1985).
1409:アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005)
1399:
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4314:World Video Game Hall of Fame
3450:Chris Gray (April 28, 2002).
2408:. September 1996. p. 56.
2398:"Top 100 Games of All Time".
1988:. Macrovision. Archived from
1827:. Macrovision. Archived from
1332:
733:William Cassidy, writing for
666:charts in April 1980, though
4244:Cancelled Atari Jaguar games
3030:. Microsoft. January 8, 2010
2429:. February 1999. p. 76.
2419:"Top 50 Games of All Time".
2229:Atari sold more than 70,000
1769:. Vol. 2, no. 81.
1194:for TRS-80, were renamed to
1158:magazine. In December 1981,
911:, and included in the 1993
616:
7:
4279:Science fiction video games
3489:. Condé Nast Publications.
3427:. Conde Nast Publications.
3283:Kit, Borys (July 2, 2009).
1931:Atari Inc.: Business Is Fun
1761:"Invasion of the Asteroids"
498:, but Logg, experienced in
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4299:Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
4239:Cancelled Atari 5200 games
4224:Atari 8-bit computer games
3242:(1st ed.). McFarland.
2442:"All-Time 100 Video Games"
1513:"The Making of Defender".
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365:golden age of arcade games
4304:Vector arcade video games
4269:Multidirectional shooters
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3551:Killer List of Videogames
3456:The Philadelphia Inquirer
3171:"Battle of the Asteroids"
2475:"The 10 best Atari games"
1892:. CRC Press. p. 58.
1696:"The Making of Asteroids"
1612:"The Making of Asteroids"
1355:Killer List of Videogames
1136:
995:Atari Anniversary Edition
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676:arcade video game of 1980
651:was so popular that some
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2934:"Atari Anthology Review"
2037:Wolf, Mark J.P. (2008).
1982:"Asteroids (Atari 7800)"
1351:The Arcade Flyer Archive
1287:Proposed film adaptation
1204:. Others clones include
872:was the first sequel to
602:in 1986. A port for the
582:
515:Grass Valley, California
414:wrap around screen edges
290:multidirectional shooter
262:Multidirectional shooter
4254:Fiction about asteroids
2011:Scott Stilphen (2001).
1733:Patterns in Game Design
1553:Condé Nast Publications
1202:Adventure International
3580:on September 27, 2007.
3399:The Hollywood Reporter
3373:The Hollywood Reporter
3290:The Hollywood Reporter
3146:. 1980. Archived from
2343:"Software Report Card"
1627:. 2009. Archived from
1305:Lorenzo di Bonaventura
988:Different versions of
962:on December 14, 1999,
837:Usage of the names of
643:games were shipped in
561:Sacramento, California
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3238:Weiss, Brett (2007).
3221:Hague, James (1997).
3092:on September 26, 2023
2833:on September 15, 2007
2823:"Asteroids by iThink"
2381:"Top 100 Video Games"
2277:"Top 25 Arcade Games"
2245:Bloom, Steve (1982).
2116:Kubey, Craig (1982).
1865:. IGN. Archived from
1190:for the Apple II and
1090:was released for the
765:was ranked fourth on
659:at the top of the US
631:another vector game,
596:Atari 8-bit computers
395:
4264:Game Boy Color games
3179:. pp. 163–165.
3150:on December 10, 2008
2792:"Asteroids Hyper 64"
2660:Entertainment Weekly
2480:Entertainment Weekly
2454:on November 18, 2012
2173:to compete with the
1992:on November 14, 2014
1634:on December 19, 2013
1441:"Production Numbers"
1269:and was reworked as
1111:Asteroids: Recharged
969:A technical demo of
803:Museum of Modern Art
794:Entertainment Weekly
3057:. Pocket-lint Ltd.
2921:. October 22, 2018.
2827:justclaws.atari.org
2722:"Atari Flashback 2"
2329:Steve Jackson Games
2041:. Greenwood Press.
1869:on October 29, 2012
1230:, and Quicksilva's
1015:Atari Greatest Hits
983:Intellivision Amico
960:Crave Entertainment
840:Saturday Night Live
825:won sixth place in
4289:Taito arcade games
4229:Atari arcade games
4209:Arcade video games
3588:. The Dot Eaters.
3524:Video games portal
2599:Retro Gaming Hacks
2347:Video Games Player
2290:Imagine Publishing
1980:Brett Alan Weiss.
1819:Brett Alan Weiss.
1771:Hearst Corporation
1625:Imagine Publishing
1521:Imagine Publishing
1293:Universal Pictures
1174:The Asteroid Field
1146:Asteroids in Space
964:Asteroids Hyper 64
866:Released in 1981,
722:Video Games Player
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598:in 1981, then the
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2942:. Gamer Network.
2821:Turner, Richard.
2133:978-0-446-37115-5
2048:978-0-313-33868-7
1899:978-1-4398-7323-6
1857:William Cassidy.
1777:on June 22, 2008.
1079:service in 2010.
937:Microsoft Windows
635:, but demand for
400:The objective of
293:arcade video game
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3574:Atari Times
3566:"All About
3154:November 5,
3118:TouchArcade
3055:Pocket-lint
3051:"Asteroids"
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2889:ejagfest.de
2727:PC Magazine
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2285:Retro Gamer
1956:"Asteroids"
1927:"Chapter 8"
1859:"Asteroids"
1821:"Asteroids"
1620:Retro Gamer
1516:Retro Gamer
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1236:ZX Spectrum
1125:, Windows,
1021:Nintendo DS
933:Nintendo 64
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901:Re-releases
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890:Blasteroids
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768:Retro Gamer
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559:arcades in
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462:Planet Grab
433:Development
309:Atari, Inc.
276:multiplayer
205:Atari 8-bit
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