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.

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

The Asteroids arcade machine is a vector game.

That original Asteroids prototype board still exists, and is currently in Delman's personal collection.

Asteroids also features various sound effects, each of which is implemented by its own circuitry.

Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 on December 14, 1999.

The vector technique is similar to the visuals of games such as Asteroids.

Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets is a book by John S. Lewis which discusses the development of interplanetary space within our solar system.

While ostensibly very similar to Breakout – the layout, sound, and general behavior of the game is identical – Super Breakout is a microprocessor based game instead of discrete logic, programmed by Asteroids programmer Ed Logg using an early M6502 chip.

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.

* " I guess the way I describe it is that I'm the father of Asteroids.

Ed Logg is the mother of Asteroids, because he had to live with it for nine months and deliver a finished product.

This category contains articles that are about entire groups of asteroids, but not about the specific asteroids that are in those groups themselves ; specific asteroids should be placed in categories named after the group they're in, which is then a subcategory of: Category: Asteroids.

He is a member of the Cortina Astronomical Association ( Associazione Astronomica Cortina ) and is also a collaborator with the Minor Planet Center ( MPC ) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory monitoring Near-Earth Asteroids brighter than magnitude 18. 0 V under the auspices of Division III of the International Astronomical Union at his own Pianoro Observatory ( MPC Observatory 610 ).

Ed Logg, the creator of Asteroids and Centipede, is credited for Original Game Design of Gauntlet in the arcade version, as well as the 1987 NES release version.

The game is essentially an Asteroids clone with modern enhancements, such as power-ups, shields, a high-energy techno module soundtrack, vivid use of colors and the occasional tunnel section that revolves around a sphere.

Spheres of Chaos is a space shooter video game, created by Iain McLeod, with the basic gameplay being similar to the classic arcade game Asteroids.

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.

Maelstrom is a 1992 clone of Asteroids with an improved interface and better graphics.

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.

The gameplay can be described as a Three-dimensional version of Asteroids, but instead of a ship, the player character is the child patient on a hoverboard.

" Asteroids was so popular that video arcade operators sometimes had to install larger boxes to hold the number of coins that were spent by players.

* Mono ( game ), a shoot ' em up video game reminiscent of both Asteroids and Robotron: 2084

He co-developed the video game Asteroids with Lyle Rains.

Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams ; Defender was Jarvis ' first video game project, and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids.

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 ).

Arcades catering to video games began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders ( 1978 ), Asteroids ( 1979 ), and Galaxian ( 1979 ), and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man, Missile Command, Berzerk, Defender, and others.

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.

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The ridge of the duocylinder may be thought of as the actual global shape of the screens of video games such as Asteroids, where going off the edge of one side of the screen leads to the other side.

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

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

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.

There was a home gaming system that used vector graphics called Vectrex as well as various arcade games like Asteroids and Space Wars.

The first game produced by Ambrosia was Maelstrom, a remake of the Asteroids arcade game.

He created several games patterned after actual arcade games, such as Super Nova ( Asteroids ), Attack Force ( Targ ), Cosmic Fighter ( Astro Fighter ), Galaxy Invasion ( Galaxian ), Meteor Mission II ( Lunar Rescue ), Robot Attack ( Berzerk ), and Defense Command ( Missile Command ).

* Classic arcade games such as Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Asteroids, TRON, BurgerTime, Zaxxon, Pengo, Kangaroo, Berzerk, Donkey Kong ( in all its iterations ), Joust, Robotron: 2084, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Marble Madness, Moon Patrol, Spy Hunter, Asteroids Deluxe, Centipede, Millipede, Q * Bert, Missile Command, Frogger, Arkanoid, Mario Bros., Dig Dug, Mr. Do !, Gorf, Galaga, and others.

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!

One of the idents used involved classic board games, card games, and arcade games like Asteroids and Space Invaders.

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

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.

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