Asteroids 1979

Released: November 1979
Genres: Shooter · Arcade
Platforms: Arcade · Apple II
Developer: Atari
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Is it still worth playing?

You fly a triangular spaceship through an asteroid field that flying saucers cross from time to time, shooting the asteroids and saucers while avoiding collisions and the saucers' fire. It is a 1979 arcade shooter conceived and designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg. The ship rotates left and right, fires straight ahead and thrusts forward, and once moving it keeps drifting until it loses momentum. It can also jump into hyperspace, reappearing at a random place at the risk of destroying itself or landing on an asteroid. Each level starts with several large asteroids drifting across the screen, and objects wrap around the screen edges. The game gets harder as the number of asteroids grows. Drifting and shooting at once is still a plan worth learning.