Played as part of Atari 50.
Another day, another Asteroids port. Same criticisms apply. It's the best a home port of this game has looked yet, but it's still the same okayish game underneath. Need to start really paying attention to these release dates, since they're still playing these nearly decade-old hits a whole year after Super Mario Bros released stateside, lol.
Another day, another Asteroids port. Same criticisms apply. It's the best a home port of this game has looked yet, but it's still the same okayish game underneath. Need to start really paying attention to these release dates, since they're still playing these nearly decade-old hits a whole year after Super Mario Bros released stateside, lol.
Asteroids is an interesting game and I thought it was alright, but much like a lot of the games on this system, it is an inferior version to the arcade versions. I did have some fun with it, though.
I think I like this port more than the original arcade version, nice
7800:
Asteroids 7800 is the one of the most well put together versions of Asteroids that still has the issue of again... just being asteroids. The difficulty of the game is more on player input rather than the asteroids themselves. Having played this on Atari 50 I can say that even though this version is good, the biggest issue is that it's just another version of asteroids that happens to look nicer. It's good version, just nothing amazing, as again after having played both the arcade, 2600 version, and the Lynx version, there's not much to add other that:
"Shoot asteroids that become smaller asteroids and avoid them, and destroy them all till new ones spawn in. Destroy small ships that appear occsaionally... on the ATARI 7800!"
Played on Atari 50.
Asteroids 7800 is the one of the most well put together versions of Asteroids that still has the issue of again... just being asteroids. The difficulty of the game is more on player input rather than the asteroids themselves. Having played this on Atari 50 I can say that even though this version is good, the biggest issue is that it's just another version of asteroids that happens to look nicer. It's good version, just nothing amazing, as again after having played both the arcade, 2600 version, and the Lynx version, there's not much to add other that:
"Shoot asteroids that become smaller asteroids and avoid them, and destroy them all till new ones spawn in. Destroy small ships that appear occsaionally... on the ATARI 7800!"
Played on Atari 50.
I once did a 20 hour marathon of a single playthrough. I don't know why, I think I wanted to score as much as possible.
Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 5: Atari Vol 2
Honestly its so nice to actually have a proper port of Asteroids after Vol 1 gave us what was essentially Babys first Asteroids (the Atari 2600 version). Its a nice little blast to play, the new graphics are chunky but cute and it all hits that nice little 'Just one more go' feeling.
It is still Asteroids though so its still quite limited, especially given its 1986 and we have stuff like Ikari Warriors, Side-Arms and Salamander all rushing for attention.... and the teleport function is still as garbage as ever.... But hey! Its Asteroids!
Honestly its so nice to actually have a proper port of Asteroids after Vol 1 gave us what was essentially Babys first Asteroids (the Atari 2600 version). Its a nice little blast to play, the new graphics are chunky but cute and it all hits that nice little 'Just one more go' feeling.
It is still Asteroids though so its still quite limited, especially given its 1986 and we have stuff like Ikari Warriors, Side-Arms and Salamander all rushing for attention.... and the teleport function is still as garbage as ever.... But hey! Its Asteroids!
In keeping with the other 7800 launch titles, this is a pretty well-polished arcade port and the two-player modes really spice things up