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

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

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.

This oversight was addressed in the game's sequel, Asteroids Deluxe, and led to significant changes in the way game developers designed and tested their games in the future.

When it was decided that Asteroids would be a vector game as well, Delman modified a Lunar Lander circuit board for Ed Logg.

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

Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.

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

This blast was also featured on The Science Channel series Killer Asteroids, with several witness reports from residents in Atlin, British Columbia.

While Asteroids ( 1979 ) allowed the player to rotate the game's spacecraft, 1982's highly acclaimed Robotron 2084 was most influential on subsequent multi-directional shooters.

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

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.

It was one of five minor planets included in the 1993 study, Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids, which was research involving amateur astronomers who were permitted to make use of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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.

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.

It was one of five minor planets included in the 1993 study, Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids, which was research involving amateur astronomers who were permitted to make use of the Hubble Space Telescope.

His most famous title was a version of Asteroids for the Commodore International VIC 20 ( a game that Jeff Minter once described as a " pile of wank ").

Asteroids with even smaller aphelions were discovered until February 2003, when finally, an asteroid with an aphelion smaller than 1. 000 au was discovered.

The concept of Gravitar was based on a combination of Lunar Lander and Asteroids.

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

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

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

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

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

Category: Asteroids named for people

Category: Asteroids named for people

Category: Asteroids named for people

He used to study and analyze games for hours ; capturing in his mind every frame of the layout of games like Donkey Kong, Pacman, Asteroids, Space Invaders or Robotron: 2084 ; taking notes of every detail and then trying to replicate them on his computer.

Category: Asteroids named for people

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

Category: Asteroids named for people

Category: Asteroids named for people

Category: Asteroids named for people

Category: Asteroids named for people

Category: Asteroids named for people

Asteroids with a diameter strike the Earth every 500, 000 years on average.

Asteroids with diameters of enter the Earth's atmosphere approximately once per year, with as much energy as Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, approximately 15 kilotonnes of TNT.

* Russia Takes Aim at Asteroids, op-ed on asteroid defense, Wall St. Journal, Jan. 5, 2010

* Article at The Dot Eaters, on Rains and the development of Asteroids

Asteroids displays vector graphics on a special monitor, while the staff planned to use pixel graphics on a conventional monitor.

The enemies quickly follow the spaceship to collide with it, and were based on a similar enemy in Asteroids.

* A technical report on A-Type Asteroids

Limits to Ice on Asteroids ( 24 ) Themis and ( 65 ) Cybele.

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.

* " 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.

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.

Twice in the Lucky Starr series, in Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids and Rings of Saturn, Earth finds itself on the brink of war with the Sirians as the result of Sirian aggression.

Just as David Starr, Space Ranger turned the standard mad scientist plot on its head by making the villain an unhappy neurotic rather than a power-mad megalomaniac, so Pirates of the Asteroids turns the standard revenge drama plot on its head.