Asteroids
SCORE: 82
I am very thankful I had the money to
purchase Asteroids on the Atari 2600 and the Evercade system. I have
played Asteroids on both systems. Most recently I played it on the
Evercade video game system from one of the Atari Collection cartridges.
It dawned on me recently that we have not done a lot of reviews of the
early video games. I decided it was time to correct that.
Asteroids is a simple video game from the early days of the video game
industry. Players are in a ship in the middle of an asteroid field. The
player can move around the ship, and even fly the ship around the
screen. The goal is to clear the screen of all of the asteroids. The
player shoots the asteroids to make them go away. The ship can only fire
so fast so keep that in mind.
One of the things that made Asteroids challenging back in the day is the
larger rocks. Shoot a larger rock for it to break into two smaller
rocks. This is done until the rocks are small enough to completely
obliterate. When the rocks split they can go in some interesting
directions. Players need to stay on their toes when this happens because
a rock may come right at you.
Graphically Asteroids looked decent for its era. Now the pixel graphics
do not look that great. The music in Asteroids is still hummable to this
very day. I found the music can get stuck in your head if you play
Asteroids long enough. The replay in Asteroids is perfect. Clear all the
rocks until your all of your ships get destroyed. Good players can play
Asteroids for a long time.
I really enjoyed playing Asteroids recently. I am not a nostalgic gamer
per say so that is saying a lot. Asteroids is one of those video game
history games that the younger generation needs to experience to
understand the roots of video games. It was a pleasure for me to play
and review Asteroids on the Atari 2600 and Evercade video game system.
- Paul
Graphics: 65%
Sound: 80%
Replay/Extras: 100%
Gameplay: 80%
Family Friendly Factor: 86%
System: Atari 2600/Evercade
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Atari
Rating: ‘NR’ - Not Rated
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