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Asteroids
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Name: Asteroids Manufacturer: Atari Year: 1979 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Asteroids Pinout Settings: Asteroids Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
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Asteroids DescriptionAsteroids was produced by Atari in 1979. Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Other machines made by Atari during the time period Asteroids was produced include Atari Soccer, Atari Football, Hercules, Superman, Road Runner, Orbit, Wolf Pack, Super Breakout, Consolette 2000, and Smokey Joe. Asteroids - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.97 (33 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet InformationThe first Asteroids cabinets used a different coin-door. The quarters were placed through one of two round openings large enough for the quarter to fit through. The quarter is placed flat against a wall just inside the opening and released. The quarter drops down for a credit. The display showing the cost of a credit is labeled between the two coin openings. The lettering describing the game play is also in yellow instead of white on the monitor overlay. The picture of the Asteroids cabinet at the top of this page is one of these first machines.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsThe original version of the game had a feature that allowed the player to hide their ship in the score field indefinitely without being hit by flying asteroids.Game PlayThe most famous play tactic for Asteroids is the "hunting" strategy. The player destroys all asteroids except for one that almost clears the playfield and makes it relatively safe. This allows the player to hunt for alien saucers without worrying about being smashed by a lot of flying debris.MiscellaneousPlay a free version of Asteroids at the official Atari site: http://www.atari.com/arcade/asteroids.Asteroids is available on the iPad and iPhone via Atari's Greatest Hits application. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Asteroids CensusThere are 11,505 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,119 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 152,567 machines (6,538 unique titles).Very Common - There are 1071 known instances of this machine owned by Asteroids collectors who are active members. Of these, 997 of them are original dedicated machines, 6 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 67 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 45 active VAPS members with Asteroids machines for sale. There are 4 active VAPS members with extra Asteroids circuit boards for sale. Wanted - Very Popular - There are 34 active VAPS members currently looking for Asteroids. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Asteroids circuit board set. This game ranks a 96 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 56 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThe Wells-Gardner 19V2000 black and white vector monitor is a direct plug-in replacement monitor for an Asteroids machine. The pinout is almost identical to Asteroids Deluxe.TriviaAfter its release in the US, many arcade operators had to make larger coin boxes for the games so they could hold all of the quarters that these machines collected.LegacyManuals
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Asteroids Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for machines and parts made by Atari. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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