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In 2005 Asteroids was released for the Game Boy Advance with Pong and Yars' Revenge also being included on the same package. A remake, Asteroids: Recharged, was released in December 2021 for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, developed by Adamvision Studios and SneakyBox and published by ...
With 100,000 units sold, "Asteroids" became a benchmark for space shooters and influenced countless games that followed Mortal Kombat (Midway) Cabinets Sold : 24,000
Space Invaders was the top-grossing video game worldwide in 1979, [1] having become the arcade game industry's all-time best-seller by 1979. [2] The following table lists the year's top-grossing arcade game in Japan, the United Kingdom, United States, and worldwide.
Beginning in 1979, the Atari coin-operated games division started releasing cabinets incorporating vector graphics displays after the success of the Cinematronics game Space Wars in 1977–78. Their first vector graphics game, Lunar Lander , was a modest success, but their second arcade title, Asteroids , was highly popular, displacing Space ...
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 ...
He co-developed the video game Asteroids with Lyle Rains. [7] Other games designed or co-designed by Logg include Centipede , Millipede , the Gauntlet series (with inspiration from John Palevich's Dandy ), Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey and the home versions of the San Francisco Rush series.
The game follows in the footsteps of shoot 'em ups such as Asteroids (1979), Gravitar (1982), Defender and Thrust (1986), with its "thrust-and-rotate" controls, inertia and gravity-based movement, 360 degree shooting and manually-operated shield.
Lyle Rains was a senior executive at the arcade game company Atari and is sometimes, with Ed Logg, listed as a co-developer of the video game Asteroids.In fact, Rains called Logg into his office and said "Well, why don’t we have a game where you shoot the rocks and blow them up?".