Fly your ship, blast the rocks into smaller and smaller pieces and dodge the flying saucers. A tribute to Atari Asteroids, free in your browser and on your phone.
Rotate the ship, use thrust to move (there are no brakes: the ship keeps drifting) and fire at the rocks. Large ones split into two medium rocks and medium ones into two small ones. Saucers shoot at you. In a tight spot, jump to hyperspace. Extra life every 10,000 points.
Asteroids is a 1979 arcade game by Atari, designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg. It used a vector display, which draws lines instead of pixels, hence its unmistakable look: a triangular ship and white-outlined rocks against black space.
Its masterstroke was the physics: the ship does not stop on its own, it keeps its momentum and wraps round the screen edges to reappear on the other side, so every shot and every burst of thrust has to be planned. It became Atari’s best-selling arcade machine, with around 70,000 units.
In 1981 it came to the Atari 2600 console, with pixel graphics instead of vectors. It was one of the console’s big hits and brought the game into living rooms.
This is an original implementation with vector graphics: rocks that split into three sizes, large saucers that fire at random and small ones that aim, hyperspace and an extra life every 10,000 points. On mobile it plays full screen with large buttons that accept several fingers at once: steer with one hand and fire with the other.
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This page is a tribute with an original implementation. “Asteroids” is a registered trademark of Atari; this version is not affiliated with or endorsed by its owners.
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