* Eleanor Bach ( January 11, 1922-April 30, 1995 ) New York based astrologer, has been called " Mother of the Asteroids.

In general, commercial video games have gone from simple designs ( such as Space Invaders and Asteroids ) to extremely complex ones ( such as Gran Turismo 5 and Crysis 2 ) as processing power has increased.

At certain points in the game, the player has a choice of levels to choose from which may suit the weaponry on their ship, such as Asteroids 1 ( lots of big asteroids ) or Asteroids 2 ( few asteroids but lots of defensive turrets ) in Episode 1.

An expert on the composition and chemistry of asteroids and comets, Lewis has written such popular science books as Rain of Iron and Ice and Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets.

The LPI has collaborated on a number of publications in the prestigious Space Science Series of the University of Arizona Press, including Asteroids III ( ISBN 0816522812 ), Comets II ( ISBN 0816524505 ), Europa ( ISBN 9780816528448 ), Meteorites and the Early Solar System II ( ISBN 9780816525621 ), Origin of the Earth and Moon ( ISBN 0816520739 ), Protostars and Planets V ( ISBN 9780816526543 ), and The Solar System Beyond Neptune ( ISBN 9780816527557 ).

Atari had been in the process of manufacturing another vector game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high " that several hundred Asteroids games were shipped in Lunar Lander cabinets.

Asteroids have been ejected from these almost empty lanes by repeated perturbations.

Expeditions have been launched from Duckburg to the Moon, Mars, Venus, the Asteroids, and more remote parts of the Galaxy.

Many other arcade games during the golden age also had hardware unit sales at least in the tens of thousands, including Ms. Pac-Man with over 115, 000 units, Asteroids with 70, 000, Donkey Kong with over 60, 000, Defender with 55, 000, Galaxian with 40, 000, Donkey Kong Junior with 35, 000, Mr. Do!

This program is responsible for the discovery of several thousand asteroids of all types including a large number of Near-Earth Asteroids ( NEAs ), over 200 high inclination objects, other rare and unique orbital types of asteroids and 20 comets.

* " Cat " Cabrera, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Achieved several world records including Asteroids, Popeye, Pacman, Joust and set the longest play on one quarter at 32hr / 34 minutes at a Grand Prix sponsored world record attempt on Joust.

In " Game Over " ( 2006 ) PES recreated classic arcade death sequences ( from the games Centipede, Frogger, Asteroids, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man ) with familiar objects including muffins, toy cars, insects, pizza and fried eggs.

The objective of Asteroids is to score as many points as possible by destroying asteroids and flying saucers.

Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

The gameplay in Asteroids was imitated by many games that followed.

Water from lunar sources, Near Earth Asteroids or Martian moons is thought to be relatively cheap and simple to extract, and gives adequate performance for many manufacturing and material shipping purposes.

* Asteroids: The most numerous object in the game, asteroids come in many different colors and at differing speeds ( starting off at slow speeds, then progressively falling faster ).

** Line Up: Faith No More, Franz Ferdinand, Skrillex, The Prodigy, Refused, Orbital, Example, Enter Shikari, Architects, Crystal Castles, Flogging Molly, The Subways, Two Door Cinema Club, August Burns Red, I Killed The Prom Queen, The Kooks, H2O, Selah Sue, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, The Computers, The Octopussys, Molotov Jukebox, Anna Calvi, Scarred By Beauty, 3 Feet Smaller, The Inspector Cluzo, The Feud, Keko Yoma, Irie Révoltés, Grimus and many more.

Like in the original Asteroids the objective is to score as many points as possible by destroying asteroids and flying saucers.

Asteroids was a hit in the United States and became Atari's best selling game of all time.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

After Atari's demise, Hasbro continued the tradition, with 3D remakes of Pong, Centipede, and Asteroids.

* History of Atari's Asteroids

* History of Atari's Asteroids

Initially, Jarvis spent 3 – 4 months developing color variations of Taito's Space Invaders and Atari's Asteroids.

Development then shifted to emulating Atari's Asteroids, but hardware differences between Asteroids and Defenders proposed specifications were problematic.

* Space Force, a clone of Atari's Asteroids arcade game

* Atari releases Asteroids, a major hit in the United States and Atari's best selling game of all time.

The gameplay is very similar to that of Atari's Asteroids.

Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.

Many of the recent TV Games series of old Atari games have included either the 2600 or arcade versions of Asteroids.

In 2001, Infogrames released Atari Anniversary Edition for the Sega Dreamcast and PC compatibles which included emulated versions of Asteroids and other classics.

In 2004, Asteroids ( Including both the Atari 2600 port and the arcade original, along with Asteroids Deluxe ) were included as part of Atari Anthology for both Xbox and PlayStation 2, using Digital Eclipse's emulation technology.

* Official online version of Asteroids at Atari

* All About Asteroids at Atari Times

In 2010, the game was re-released in a Taco Bell promotion, in which a series of four classic Atari game CD-ROMs ( Centipede, Lunar Lander, Super Breakout, and Asteroids ) were given away in kids ' meals, and were also available for purchase separately.

Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and is sometimes, with Ed Logg, listed as a co-developer of the video game Asteroids.

Barton and Loguidice commented that the Atari 2600 version, along with Space Invaders and Asteroids, helped the system gain a dominant market share.

The most successful arcade game companies of this era included Taito ( which ushered in the golden age with the shooter game Space Invaders and produced other successful arcade action games such as Gun Fight and Jungle King ), Namco ( the Japanese company that created Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position and Dig Dug ) and Atari ( the company that introduced video games into arcades with Computer Space and Pong, and later produced Asteroids ).

A few of these vector games became great hits, such as 1980's Battlezone and Tempest and 1983's Star Wars from Atari, as well as 1982's Star Trek from Sega and Asteroids.

* Atari releases Lunar Lander and Ed Logg & Lyle Rains ' Asteroids.

The unit is set out as part of the Atari History Museum exhibits run by Curt Vendel, running with Space Invaders or Asteroids for show-goers to play.

* Arcade Asteroids ( hack ) of the original Atari 2600 Asteroids with the sprites changed to outlines to more accurately portray the arcade version

Asteroids Deluxe is a video arcade game released in May 1981 by Atari Inc. and is the sequel to Asteroids.