I remember playing this original arcade version during the ‘80s. I got 1000 points for hitting the little space ship, and an extra ship for every 10,000 points. It was a quarter for every game which gave me 3 ships before “game over“. By 1986 I got so good at it, I had to abandon the arcade machine when the Clint Eastwood movie “Heartbreak Ridge” was ready to start at the theater. I had by then racked up a boatload of extra ships that I left for other theater goers to play with, who had all watched me in amazement (doing Clint Eastwood impressions) while blowing up asteroids and spaceships. Near as I can remember, it was years before they finally came out with a home version of “Asteroids” that was faithful to the arcade version.
We sponsored the good guys with ten cents to play the game and rack up free lifes, then we played it until only a few lifes remained. The the good guys took over and scored another 30 or so lifes. This went on all day until the surf picked up.
Ophensive Stuff people are fucked up. You’re right it’s a great game So was the version that PS1 had. The one with the black hole and the huge single asteroid at start
I think because it doesn't really look like the original asteroids. It doesn't have that vintage vector graphics "glow". This video just looks like a cheap, bland early 2000s cell phone version of the game.
One of the things I really liked about this game, being the science nerd I was, was that the ships pretty much 'flew' the way they really would have in a weightless environment: Thrust in any direction would modify whatever direction it was currently moving in, rather than the ship just flying around like an airplane.
I had free ships all the way across the screen, and for the person that said we leave one astroid and roll across the screen shooting the saucers that go by is cheating, we'll I like to see you do that. You have to have skills to do that when they are coming from all directions and you still have one astroid floating around..so to all my old school players that play like that I salute you!!
Leave one rock on the screen then fly from bottom to top over and over to keep shooting the little saucer that keeps coming out. They are worth 1000 points each and you can rack up a lot of free spaceships this way.
yep.....still a great game...I have a Playstation version of this game...now I'm REALLY dating myself...just as fun, but the controls don't give you the right 'feel' for maneuvering...much more fun on the old fashion arcade machine.....my friend had one in his living room.....no quarters required, of course! sheer heaven!
My buddy and his mom fell on hard times and moved in with a fairly wealthy super cool lady. His mom kinda became the “housekeeper” and as long as the owner and her friends were out, we had free run of the finished basement. Full bar, kickass stereo, pool table, and a full size Asteroids arcade game- with the coin slot disabled. We would warm up for HOURS then walk to the arcade and play that one. Everyone would gather around and watch in amazement. (Deron was better than me, but I could hold my own…) Never got old. We were about 13-14.
I used to play this game in arcades in 1982/83. It took some time to master the controls. so simple but addictive. I downloaded an app which is an excellent copy of the game.
I dont know how but i had this on my first dusty box pc. Remember playing it 24/7. So sad most of my generation will never discover or even hear of this classic
I think the simplicity of this game made it classy. It didn't "reset" at each level, your ship just remained active and new asteroids appeared. And when you got 10,000 points, you just got a new ship added, there was no "Great Job" message or anything. Very classy. I loved this game, but I was only 9 years old when it came out, and I think the best score I ever got was only 15k'ish. Getting even 1 extra life was enough to make me feel great for the rest of the day. Money... 25 cents per play, which was also enough to buy a hot dog or an ice cold can of Dr. Pepper.
My younger brother had this game down,he would speed through the screen while that little saucer was buzzing through,flip his ship sideways and lay down a barrage of photons in its direction and wipe it out, time after time. I was a little bit jeolous,but it spurred me to try harder by douplicating his style. Love this game! 😆🧠👍👍💖💖💖💖
There is a similar game that's in a disc filled with all kinds of other old games called Chaos. I played it way back in 2000s cause my brother had a disk that was full of old games with it. In the Main Screen, there is a title with a list of options and black screen full of colorful spheres that's been transported through some dimension and prints on the black screen as they move. As you start the game, a triangular ship your control appears. It has boosting and can shoot against threats like the spheres that will kill. As you shoot them, they emit lines of color when exploded to smaller pieces, eventually disappearing when the smallest one gets shot, and both it your missiles or blasts stayed on the black screen like lines of paint. Power-ups, that are also transported through some dimension, print on the black screen as they move, and have the exact shape and design as your ship, floating in the black screen with emitting different colors that each has different abilities that helps or hurts you and you can try to time the color you want to capture given you remember what each colors does. The sound effects are amazing especially the power-ups, and you can customize certain things that'll make them go crazy cause when you chaining shots, the sounds go higher till the max it could go, making this experience a lot more promising than what you have expected. There's also other types of things that will be a threat like enemy ships that come after you and black hole that you need to destroy, but when your ship is destroyed it emits rainbows on the entire black screen and gives you new ship until lives you have are gone. It comes in Levels, so as you take out the last thing remaining, the next batch comes in as your next Level. It's also a game where there's no moving camera and your in a loop box meaning hitting the edges of the screen takes you on the opposite side while the area space your in is kept in the exact position, but as you go diagonal, your just gonna make things a lot worse for yourself.
yep... the 80s....siskel and ebert : at the movies ...beavis and butthead : MTV...madonna.. heavy metal...was an ok time considering their were no cell phones and PCs at the time..
@@KC9UDX ... yah think your write beavis and butt head were about early 90s ... AND YES YOUR WRITE I WASN'T THERE ( " CLEARLY " ) I'M JUST AN IDIOT BORN YESTERDAY LIER WAITING 5 YEARS FOR COMMENTS FROM AN ASSHOLE LIKE YOU ON THE INTERNET ... EXCUSE ME BUT I HAVE TO TELL MY MOMMIE TO CHECK MY DIAPERS SO I COULD GET BACK ON LINE AND CORRECT PEOPLES SPELLING ALL DAY LONG ... AND DO A LITTLE OF MY OWN LIER CATCHING ...
Strategy: when one or two asteroids are remaining on the screen, move you ship from bottom to top of screen, off the top of screen so it reappears at bottom, and keep this movement going. When an enemy ship appears on the screen, while continuing your ships motion from top to bottom, release the throttle and let your ship coast, then turn it to aim and fire at the enemy ship. As your ship is coasting, it makes it difficult for the enemy ship to hit your ship, all the while you can take shots at the enemy ship (and rack up some good points) with little fear of running into an asteroid.
@@elbiolin ¡Jjajaa! Porque José, el de la zapatería, nos cortaba la luz. Acordate, Bocha. ^^ Grandes récords con la firma "PEG" A ver cuando nos vemos. ¡Abrazo!
Quality game (well in the early 80’s anyway). I rated myself as the best in UK and would of played anyone for £ !! So many extra lives they were off of the screen !! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
Paul Nicholas I would fill the screen with so many extras that they were off the screen. The guy at the bowling alley would give me my quarter back when it was closing time. I would let my brother take over so I could walk home to eat and come back and keep playing. I loved this game.
You sound like my younger brother, he would play for hours and rack up more ships than the game could display. 🤯👍👍AAAAAAAAAAAA ..........................................
This Mame emulated version of the 1979 original does not display the vector graphics of an actual machine..you MUST see it to believe it and all will see why it's King of the vector based games.
I went to North Carolina on vacation for spring break one time and this was on a arcade machine that was in the house that my family rented as well as asteroids deluxe
Ready Player One, Level One, Chapter 1, reference n°17: "I knew I probably wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coin-op classics. Galaga, Defender, Asteroids."
Brings back memories for me: I used to play this, along with Defender, in the local social club in the small town where I grew up. I was always begging for small change. Later I got a nigh-on perfect port of the arcade version for the Amiga on a magazine coverdisk. Still ranks as one of the best home versions I've played. Later still (*much* later) I decided to have a crack at writing my own version of Asteroids, for the web: arcade.ly/games/asteroids/ (i.e., no Flash, just HTML and JavaScript). Even works on mobile. If you fancy a trip down memory lane then give it a try and let me know what you think.
I loved the Amiga and just last year found an amazing port called 'Cabaret Asteroids' for Amiga. Is that the one you played? Also your arcade.ly is great fun and impressive work!
@@judgegroovyman Thanks very much - glad you like it! Asteroids Cabaret looks bang on but I don't think it's the one I played. The version I had ran in the hires interlace mode and I'm pretty sure was pubic domain. I can't remember the exact name but I'm think it was along the lines of "something-oids".
Used to play this for hours in the local pub. The secret to a big score was to shoot the asteroids until there were only one or two little fragments left, then position your craft near the top of the screen and wait for the UFOs to appear, then just keep building up your score by killing as many as you can before eventually getting copped by one a stray asteroid moving on to the next screen. and
They have a copy at a resturant/bar near me. Old (no shit sherlock), Screen is in bad shape and fire button is a lil sumbitch sometimes, but it works. I always go snatch a few quarters and play a round or two when i'm there. Even as a 21st century teenager i just walk past the modern arcade games and all the fancy graphics straight to the row of Centipede, Popeye, Mrs. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Asteroids. Occasionally I play some pinball. Occasionally. p.s Asteroids is infinitely better than Fortnite. Fight me.
Man, I remember this as a teen growing up! Went to the bar next door and played it. I remember a guy ( older teen) named Darren that would absolutely kill this game and me on it! Still loved the game, but getting beat all the time made me change to Ms. Pacman!
Back in 1980 as a teen everyday I would play this in the arcade. I became so good at the game I played on one quarter when the place opened at 6 AM until the place closed at 11 PM. I had so many extra ships that the row went across the entire screen and started another row. Can't remember what my score was probably like 100 million.
+John19501000 Yes they made a lot off me just pumping quarters in everyday. A week after the owner banned me from coming in for six months. I had three other places to go to play asteroids.
Sorry I was being sarcastic. I was referring to the arcade only making a quarter on Asteroids for the whole day. But you're right they made enough when you were learning the game. The one thing that annoyed me about Asteroids was your score clocked at 99,990. Then back to zero as far as I remember.
The way to play this game is to leave a piece of the smallest and slowest rock floating around and stay put wait at a corner for the little saucer to come out and shoot it down, by keeping the little rock so that the game doesn’t go to the next stage , where all the big rocks are all appear .
Back when you only needed 1 button to do what needed to be done. Love the soundtrack...... Tut tut tut tut tut tut tut tut (faster) tut tut tut tut tut tut
Best strategy not being employed here. Once you get down to on floating rock, let if gloat and sit by the edge of the screen picking off space ships from the other side. 40 years ago I could make a quarter last an hour.
Bad rock management. When the environment is hostile with small, fast, hard-to-shoot asteroids, don't make more of them until you've cleaned up the screen.
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I remember playing this original arcade version during the ‘80s. I got 1000 points for hitting the little space ship, and an extra ship for every 10,000 points. It was a quarter for every game which gave me 3 ships before “game over“. By 1986 I got so good at it, I had to abandon the arcade machine when the Clint Eastwood movie “Heartbreak Ridge” was ready to start at the theater. I had by then racked up a boatload of extra ships that I left for other theater goers to play with, who had all watched me in amazement (doing Clint Eastwood impressions) while blowing up asteroids and spaceships. Near as I can remember, it was years before they finally came out with a home version of “Asteroids” that was faithful to the arcade version.
We sponsored the good guys with ten cents to play the game and rack up free lifes, then we played it until only a few lifes remained. The the good guys took over and scored another 30 or so lifes. This went on all day until the surf picked up.
You can play all day for quarter.
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Now how in the F*CK can people give this a thumbs down? This was one of the most amazing video games in the early history of them.
Probably some No Man´s Sky fanboys.
This is like a fucking mystery man! WTF!
Maybe it was good at the time but it hasn't aged well.
Ophensive Stuff people are fucked up. You’re right it’s a great game
So was the version that PS1 had. The one with the black hole and the huge single asteroid at start
I think because it doesn't really look like the original asteroids. It doesn't have that vintage vector graphics "glow". This video just looks like a cheap, bland early 2000s cell phone version of the game.
I remember making 1,000,000 points when I was a kid but had to pee, and with no pause button back then I had to make the sacrifice
Lol
With a score like that, i would’ve peed my pants too. There’s no shame in it, you did the right thing.
0:48 Pilot accidentally eats a hot pepper.
I sure miss the 80's.
Now you have a master's degree in computer science to successfully play a video game.
"Never tell me the odds."
Nice call, Han Solo...
Seeing as when this game came out I cannot help but believe it was directly inspired by the movie Empire Strikes Back.
I've got a bad feeling about this comment...
I must have paid a million dollars worth of quarters playing this back in the day
Without doubt one of the best reaction arcade games of all time, simple but mind blowing intense
This is my favorite arcade game back in the day of 1980
i remember playing this a lot on summer vacation at the local 7-11 store in 1979. The summer before in 1978 it was Space Invaders .
That’s right!....I used to play both the games against Lemmy Motorhead in my local pub in Portobello Road.
Played this in arcade hall Back in the 80s with friends and Music. I miss this feeling.
Funny. When I was watching this, I could actually taste beer, lol.
Then I remembered that I played this game at a bar on campus, lol.
In Alcoholics Anonymous what you describe about tasting imaginary booze is known as “Euphoric Recall”
One of the things I really liked about this game, being the science nerd I was, was that the ships pretty much 'flew' the way they really would have in a weightless environment: Thrust in any direction would modify whatever direction it was currently moving in, rather than the ship just flying around like an airplane.
I always found it best to stay still in the center of the screen. If you go zipping around you are more apt to run into something.
just like real life!
That’s what I did too.
Asteroids deluxe fixed this with death satelites and smarter saucers.
For some reason the background sound fx reminds me of the movie Jaws.
Love it!
Was my favourite Atari arcade game
Asteroids and Defender were my favs back in the day.
I love the f****** s*** out of Defender.
"Tyler said he got 69,000 points on Asteroids yesterday"
I had free ships all the way across the screen, and for the person that said we leave one astroid and roll across the screen shooting the saucers that go by is cheating, we'll I like to see you do that. You have to have skills to do that when they are coming from all directions and you still have one astroid floating around..so to all my old school players that play like that I salute you!!
Yep, agree, I saw someone do that and it looked easy, When I tried it, it turned out to be a lot harder than it looked.
Played this as a teenager down the pub with my mates back in the early 1980s
Leave one rock on the screen then fly from bottom to top over and over to keep shooting the little saucer that keeps coming out. They are worth 1000 points each and you can rack up a lot of free spaceships this way.
Me and my buddy Mingo would do that for hours on 2 quarters turning the machine over and over
Happy 40th
anniversary, Asteroids. :-)
we are happy asteroid arcade
i play every day i remember my old days
Greatest BGM in all of gaming. Change my mind
yep.....still a great game...I have a Playstation version of this game...now I'm REALLY dating myself...just as fun, but the controls don't give you the right 'feel' for maneuvering...much more fun on the old fashion arcade machine.....my friend had one in his living room.....no quarters required, of course! sheer heaven!
My buddy and his mom fell on hard times and moved in with a fairly wealthy super cool lady. His mom kinda became the “housekeeper” and as long as the owner and her friends were out, we had free run of the finished basement. Full bar, kickass stereo, pool table, and a full size Asteroids arcade game- with the coin slot disabled. We would warm up for HOURS then walk to the arcade and play that one. Everyone would gather around and watch in amazement. (Deron was better than me, but I could hold my own…) Never got old. We were about 13-14.
My fave arcade game of all time, next to space invaders, thanks for uploading.....
My two favourites too.....Pretty much gave up playing video games after those two first ones.
Somehow I played this on my dad's PC in 2001. The game is so mesmerizing
I used to play this game in arcades in 1982/83. It took some time to master the controls. so simple but addictive. I downloaded an app which is an excellent copy of the game.
The original machine’s spaceship shoots out these pretty bright white dots at the asteroids
No,that was only on the second and final version...For me it spoilt it,it became too difficult to have a long game.
@@mjh5437 what?
I dont know how but i had this on my first dusty box pc. Remember playing it 24/7. So sad most of my generation will never discover or even hear of this classic
I think the simplicity of this game made it classy. It didn't "reset" at each level, your ship just remained active and new asteroids appeared. And when you got 10,000 points, you just got a new ship added, there was no "Great Job" message or anything. Very classy. I loved this game, but I was only 9 years old when it came out, and I think the best score I ever got was only 15k'ish. Getting even 1 extra life was enough to make me feel great for the rest of the day. Money... 25 cents per play, which was also enough to buy a hot dog or an ice cold can of Dr. Pepper.
This doesn't seem to do it justice...I miss the seizure inducing flash of the vector graphics.
It was hell the first few times i've played this game. Later i was like captain Kirk flying the enterprice
wtf? these graphics are amazing. they look so real
I mean for 1979 it was really good
Fun factor is being away from reality sometimes. :p
@@board7374 this is one of the asshole that dislike this video
@@lastcall170
Agreed!👍
Spoken like an entitled brat with no concept of the origins of video games. Your games get to be "better" because asteroids exists.
My younger brother had this game down,he would speed through the screen while that little saucer was buzzing through,flip his ship sideways and lay down a barrage of photons in its direction and wipe it out, time after time.
I was a little bit jeolous,but it spurred me to try harder by douplicating his style.
Love this game!
😆🧠👍👍💖💖💖💖
*HYPERSPACE* ! Gonna kicking the thrust,'cause I've just got to win,I've just got to *WIN* !!
I always hated that small UFO.
There is a similar game that's in a disc filled with all kinds of other old games called Chaos. I played it way back in 2000s cause my brother had a disk that was full of old games with it. In the Main Screen, there is a title with a list of options and black screen full of colorful spheres that's been transported through some dimension and prints on the black screen as they move. As you start the game, a triangular ship your control appears. It has boosting and can shoot against threats like the spheres that will kill. As you shoot them, they emit lines of color when exploded to smaller pieces, eventually disappearing when the smallest one gets shot, and both it your missiles or blasts stayed on the black screen like lines of paint. Power-ups, that are also transported through some dimension, print on the black screen as they move, and have the exact shape and design as your ship, floating in the black screen with emitting different colors that each has different abilities that helps or hurts you and you can try to time the color you want to capture given you remember what each colors does. The sound effects are amazing especially the power-ups, and you can customize certain things that'll make them go crazy cause when you chaining shots, the sounds go higher till the max it could go, making this experience a lot more promising than what you have expected. There's also other types of things that will be a threat like enemy ships that come after you and black hole that you need to destroy, but when your ship is destroyed it emits rainbows on the entire black screen and gives you new ship until lives you have are gone. It comes in Levels, so as you take out the last thing remaining, the next batch comes in as your next Level. It's also a game where there's no moving camera and your in a loop box meaning hitting the edges of the screen takes you on the opposite side while the area space your in is kept in the exact position, but as you go diagonal, your just gonna make things a lot worse for yourself.
you find that game? plz i want it
This game may be broken. It is not drawing the bullets.
It is, they are just hard to see.
yep... the 80s....siskel and ebert : at the movies ...beavis and butthead : MTV...madonna..
heavy metal...was an ok time considering their were no cell phones and PCs at the time..
Beavis and butthead came out in 93 and we had cell phones and mac's. plus, this game isnt even from the 80s
***** ..........o.k. ......it was the ..... 90s .........
+steve00055, Asteroids is from the 1970s.
Clearly you weren't there. Beavis and Butthead weren't there. PC's were. But they were bland. That's why we had a multitude of other better computers.
@@KC9UDX ... yah think your write beavis and butt head were about early 90s ... AND YES YOUR WRITE I WASN'T THERE ( " CLEARLY " ) I'M JUST AN IDIOT BORN YESTERDAY LIER WAITING 5 YEARS FOR COMMENTS FROM AN ASSHOLE LIKE YOU ON THE INTERNET ... EXCUSE ME BUT I HAVE TO TELL MY MOMMIE TO CHECK MY DIAPERS SO I COULD GET BACK ON LINE AND CORRECT PEOPLES SPELLING ALL DAY LONG ... AND DO A LITTLE OF MY OWN LIER CATCHING ...
Strategy: when one or two asteroids are remaining on the screen, move you ship from bottom to top of screen, off the top of screen so it reappears at bottom, and keep this movement going. When an enemy ship appears on the screen, while continuing your ships motion from top to bottom, release the throttle and let your ship coast, then turn it to aim and fire at the enemy ship. As your ship is coasting, it makes it difficult for the enemy ship to hit your ship, all the while you can take shots at the enemy ship (and rack up some good points) with little fear of running into an asteroid.
Yes, that the best effective strategy for play Asteroids. With one coin, I had played all the day with many lives accumulated (30 or more)
@@mateteag ¡No mientas! Nunca pasamos las tres horas y media.
@@elbiolin ¡Jjajaa! Porque José, el de la zapatería, nos cortaba la luz. Acordate, Bocha. ^^ Grandes récords con la firma "PEG"
A ver cuando nos vemos. ¡Abrazo!
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Who knew that a 40 year old game could still be addicting
Quality game (well in the early 80’s anyway). I rated myself as the best in UK and would of played anyone for £ !! So many extra lives they were off of the screen !!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
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Paul Nicholas I would fill the screen with so many extras that they were off the screen. The guy at the bowling alley would give me my quarter back when it was closing time. I would let my brother take over so I could walk home to eat and come back and keep playing. I loved this game.
You sound like my younger brother, he would play for hours and rack up more ships than the game could display.
🤯👍👍AAAAAAAAAAAA ..........................................
This Mame emulated version of the 1979 original does not display the vector graphics of an actual machine..you MUST see it to believe it and all will see why it's King of the vector based games.
i wish i had the quarters i fed this game after work on payday at the corner bar with my buddies
After watching this I can't imagine how video games will be in 20 more years, progress never stops
halfway there
the spaceship drove me nuts spase invaders was cool too
I went to North Carolina on vacation for spring break one time and this was on a arcade machine that was in the house that my family rented as well as asteroids deluxe
Still probably the Best Game Ever
This was my father's favourite game when he was younger. We still have this
I watched a friend of mine drop tons of quarters into this arcade game. He was obsessed with it. 😂
probably my favorite game growing up
At 1:20 that saucer got a lucky shot.
How fucking cool is this.
Ready Player One, Level One, Chapter 1, reference n°17:
"I knew I probably wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coin-op classics. Galaga, Defender, Asteroids."
That is the second-worst opening line in a book I have ever read.
I remember playing this when I was a kid it was amazing I loved it
Simple yet perfect.
Man when I was kid I pumped so many quarters into this machine the Owner had empty the bin multiple times a day!
Brings back memories for me: I used to play this, along with Defender, in the local social club in the small town where I grew up. I was always begging for small change. Later I got a nigh-on perfect port of the arcade version for the Amiga on a magazine coverdisk. Still ranks as one of the best home versions I've played. Later still (*much* later) I decided to have a crack at writing my own version of Asteroids, for the web: arcade.ly/games/asteroids/ (i.e., no Flash, just HTML and JavaScript). Even works on mobile. If you fancy a trip down memory lane then give it a try and let me know what you think.
I loved the Amiga and just last year found an amazing port called 'Cabaret Asteroids' for Amiga. Is that the one you played? Also your arcade.ly is great fun and impressive work!
@@judgegroovyman Thanks very much - glad you like it! Asteroids Cabaret looks bang on but I don't think it's the one I played. The version I had ran in the hires interlace mode and I'm pretty sure was pubic domain. I can't remember the exact name but I'm think it was along the lines of "something-oids".
Absolutely loved this game but my all time fav was Defender. Damn that was a tough game 😎👍
You’ve got to have a smooth touch for this game.. it’s an all time great 👍🏻
And a cool hand...
Used to play this for hours in the local pub. The secret to a big score was to shoot the asteroids until there were only one or two little fragments left, then position your craft near the top of the screen and wait for the UFOs to appear, then just keep building up your score by killing as many as you can before eventually getting copped by one a stray asteroid moving on to the next screen. and
They have a copy at a resturant/bar near me. Old (no shit sherlock), Screen is in bad shape and fire button is a lil sumbitch sometimes, but it works. I always go snatch a few quarters and play a round or two when i'm there. Even as a 21st century teenager i just walk past the modern arcade games and all the fancy graphics straight to the row of Centipede, Popeye, Mrs. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Asteroids. Occasionally I play some pinball. Occasionally.
p.s Asteroids is infinitely better than Fortnite. Fight me.
my dad said he loved this game and i can see why this looks more fun than any game ive seen
to think that this game is the most realistic space combat according to physics
My old neighbors used to turn this game over on the regular...had ships all the way across the screen.
Man, I remember this as a teen growing up! Went to the bar next door and played it. I remember a guy ( older teen) named Darren that would absolutely kill this game and me on it! Still loved the game, but getting beat all the time made me change to Ms. Pacman!
Cant get enough of this game to much fun still playing 2018
My grandpa used to play this.
Still the best Asteroids play through I've ever seen. I wonder which emulator this was, the sound effects are so good!
Back in 1980 as a teen everyday I would play this in the arcade. I became so good at the game I played on one quarter when the place opened at 6 AM until the place closed at 11 PM. I had so many extra ships that the row went across the entire screen and started another row. Can't remember what my score was probably like 100 million.
Lol. Great profit for the arcade.
+John19501000 Yes they made a lot off me just pumping quarters in everyday. A week after the owner banned me from coming in for six months. I had three other places to go to play asteroids.
Sorry I was being sarcastic. I was referring to the arcade only making a quarter on Asteroids for the whole day. But you're right they made enough when you were learning the game. The one thing that annoyed me about Asteroids was your score clocked at 99,990. Then back to zero as far as I remember.
+John19501000 I spent enough money on that game to buy two of them.
I got blown up alot
I can't believe we went from this to having Funny block man, Sepiriyath, A witch, and Mario in the same game.
Rolled over the score several times on this game.
My good reflexes is because of this game even over 30 years later.
Lo solia jugar con mi padre cuando tenia 10 años .. soliamos competir.. ahora ya tengo 20 y me trae muchos recuerdos.. :p
there is my favorite sounds, love it
I remember when this game came out. I was 14 and one of the high scorers. Spent millions
"Looks like the old video game, Asteroids."
"Well, whatever works for you."
"I was terrible at Asteroids. I think I actually scored zero once."
Crazy how much better the graphics were on the game Battlezone which only came out a year later. These didn't age as well clearly.
Man i remember when i was a kid on the computer and i had no idea i could move. Still suck at it. I was good at centipede and on tempest.
Well Done!
One of my favorite games during my childhood years with my atari console.
The way to play this game is to leave a piece of the smallest and slowest rock floating around and stay put wait at a corner for the little saucer to come out and shoot it down, by keeping the little rock so that the game doesn’t go to the next stage , where all the big rocks are all appear .
That’s a boring way to play-blasting the asteroids into smaller pieces was the best bit!!
That quality ISO’s fantastic and the beeping rhythm and the sound effects eppresso
Used to stay up all night playing this.
For some reason i had this version of the game on ps1, not the newer one. Anyone else?
Nobody is going to comment about the amazing music the creators had to put so much effort in?
Best thing to. Do is leave a 1 small rock an go after the space ships
Not bad, my high is 55,000-something I think
This is what they played on the set of The Thing.
I believe that the creators of among us were based on this game to do the task of the asteroids
Thats some lucky ass flying and shooting..!!!
Back when you only needed 1 button to do what needed to be done. Love the soundtrack...... Tut tut tut tut tut tut tut tut (faster) tut tut tut tut tut tut
Best strategy not being employed here. Once you get down to on floating rock, let if gloat and sit by the edge of the screen picking off space ships from the other side. 40 years ago I could make a quarter last an hour.
The ship in the middle is a Liberal mind The occasional ufo is a tea party member .
Bad rock management. When the environment is hostile with small, fast, hard-to-shoot asteroids, don't make more of them until you've cleaned up the screen.
Galaga is still the best video game of all time.
Yeah, I agree
You must've never looked at any other video games that have come out in the past decade then. There's so much more better games out there kek.
This game was so simple, yet ridiculously hard later as you played on.
You can have all your pac mans snd donkey kongs...
To me, the two best 80's arcade games of all time are Asteroids and Galaga.
This game brings back so many nemories~