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Asteroids went on to become the highest-grossing arcade video game of 1980 in the United States, dethroning Space Invaders. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] It shipped 70,000 arcade units worldwide in 1980, [ 28 ] including over 60,000 sold in the United States that year, [ 27 ] and grossed about $700 million worldwide ( $3 billion adjusted for inflation) by 1980 ...
In the game, two players each control a rocket ship, with the goal of being the first to move their ship from the bottom of the screen to the top. Along the way are asteroids, which the players must avoid. Space Race was the first racing arcade video game and the first game with a goal of crossing the screen while avoiding obstacles.
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 developer, High Risk Ventures, had released another Asteroids-inspired game, Space Madness, as its first commercial project in 1993 as well. [6] PegLeg was released for Mac computers in August 1994. [7] A sequel was released in 1996.
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Space Duel is an arcade game released in 1982 by Atari, Inc. It is a direct descendant of the original Asteroids , with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels.
The 12 finalists for the World Video Game Hall of Fame this year draw from four decades of gaming, from Atari Asteroids, played on coin-fed consoles in arcades, to Guitar Hero, for living-room ...
Super Asteroids pits the player against a never ending supply of extraterrestrial debris and enemy UFOs trained to kill any human spacecraft. [4] He must destroy everything while snatching power-ups. [4] Super Missile Command has the player defend various of his space colonies from incoming missiles, satellites, and enemy fighters. [4]