Arcade Blogger:
As Atari’s best-selling arcade game of all time, Asteroids was literally a game changer. Released in December 1979, it was responsible for catapulting Atari into mainstream public consciousness. This was the game that single-handedly broke the stranglehold that Space Invaders had on the video game world.
Although created by Atari developer Ed Logg (whose credits include Super Breakout, Video Pinball, Asteroids, Centipede, Millipede, Xybots, Gauntlet, Space Lords and Steel Talons) its lineage is rather interesting.
Between Asteroids, Space Invaders, and Defender, I lost a significant portion of my childhood cash to video arcades. And I loved it. Thanks to Rob Griffiths for the link.
This game came along at precisely the right time for me to become enthralled with it while killing hours of my life in the amply-stocked student union game room at my college. I’d already played its simpler precursor, which was housed in a much larger box. But this was the one I loved. I loved the simplicity, the fluid animation, the physics, the sound effects. All of it.
I’d been pretty happy with Space Invaders and Galaxian. Super Breakout somehow felt as though someone had issued a personal challenge to me, alone. But Asteroids… so good.
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I used to play asteroids for 16 hours on the weekends until I passed out. I don’t regret it. It helped my get into the video game biz.
I worked in a hifi shop at the end of the 70s. One day a fellow took over an empty strip mall space and put a bunch of (video games) in the space. By the next week, there was a line to get in.
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