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Millennium 2.2 is a resource management computer game by Ian Bird, released in 1989 for Atari ST, Amiga and MS-DOS. The MS-DOS version of the game was released as Millennium: Return to Earth. It is the forerunner to Bird's Deuteros, which is in a similar resource management game but many times larger and more difficult.
The game remained at the top of the US RePlay charts through March 1981. [29] The game did not perform as well overseas in Europe and Asia. It sold 30,000 arcade units overseas, for a total of 100,000 arcade units sold worldwide. [30] Atari manufactured 76,312 units from its US and Ireland plants, including 21,394 Asteroids Deluxe units. [4]
The game world in Eco is threatened with an impending meteor impact. The task of the players is to research and improve the level of technology available to them in order to destroy the Asteroid before it strikes without harming the game world too much by resource exploitation or pollution. [1] The game world shares similarities to Earth.
Outpost is a video game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. The game was noteworthy for having a hard science fiction approach, with one of the main designers being a former NASA scientist. Outpost was released for Windows 3.1 and the Macintosh. It was followed by a loosely related sequel, Outpost 2: Divided Destiny.
The game runs on the SCUMM game engine, and was the eleventh LucasArts game to do so. [2]: 82 A minigame can be found on the communicator menu, consisting of "Asteroid Lander", a Lunar Lander like game. [3] During development, there were plans to include role-playing game elements, but these were scrapped before the game's release. [4]
Earthrise, also known as Earthrise: A Guild Investigation, is an adventure game designed and programmed by Matt Gruson and published for MS-DOS in 1990 by Interstel. The player assumes the role of an astronaut sent to an asteroid base to investigate why it has ceased communication.
Alpha Prime is a first-person shooter video game developed by Black Element Software and released in 2006–2007. The script for the game's story was written by Ondřej Neff, [2] and the game is built upon Black Element's proprietary Enforce 2 Engine.
A laser cannon defends the Earth from a meteor shower.. Astrosmash resembles a cross between Space Invaders and Asteroids.The player controls a laser cannon that can scroll left or right along a flat plane in order to target falling objects, such as large or small meteors, large or small spinning bombs, and guided missiles, as well as a UFO that crosses the screen from time to time at higher ...