Asteroids

:This page is about the arcade game Asteroids. For the planet-like space object, see Asteroid.

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Asteroids is a popular vector-based video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari. The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games.

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Asteroids was inspired, in a roundabout way, by the seminal Spacewar, the first computer-based video game. In the early 1980s a stand-up arcade game version was produced as Space Wars, which included a number of optional versions and added a floating asteroid as a visual device. Asteroids is essentially a one-player version of Spacewar, featuring the "wedge" ship from the original and promoting the asteroids to be the main opponent.

Arcade game: An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, and video arcades. Most arcade games are video games or pinball machines....

1979: This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song)....

Atari: :For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term)....

Asteroids related Images and Photos (experimental)

Abstract Image Entitled Asteroids: A Celestial Design

Abstract Image Entitled by Chace: "Asteroids: the Pearl of Heaven's Portals"