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Asteroids: Asteroids Deluxe
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Asteroids Deluxe is the 1980 upgrade of the classic 1979 Arcade smash hit Asteroids. In this edition, your job is the same: pilot a small ship through an asteroid field, destroying the space boulders as you go. In addition to the asteroids, you will face a menacing flying saucer and a mysterious alien cube. Players start with three ships at the outset of the game, and additional ships are awarded at point increments of 10,000.
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Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players. The maximum possible score in this game is 99,990 points, after which it "rolls over" back to zero. Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as "lurking" — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could "hide" at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe. This led to experienced players being able to play indefinitely on a single credit.[1] This oversight was addressed in the game's sequel, Asteroids Deluxe, and led to significant changes in the way game developers designed and tested their games in the future.
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The graphics in Asteroids Deluxe are slightly improved with a few more lines drawn on the ship and the asteroids themselves to give the game a quasi-three-dimensional feel, with a hint of texture that wasn't present in the original. The addition of the ominous space cube really pushes that point home. Sure, the action is still two-dimensional, but you can tell that this game wanted to be 3D. Some additional visual upgrades include the longer destruction sequence for your ship, the appearance of the shield, and the more detailed disintegration of the smallest asteroids.
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Atari Classics Evolved features a full gamut of genre-defining classics like Battlezone®, Centipede®, Millipede®, Missile Command®, Tempest(TM), Lunar Lander(TM), Super Breakout®, Warlord®, Asteroids(TM), Asteroids(TM) Deluxe and Pong®. In addition to the 11 arcade classics, players can unlock more than 40 original Atari 2600 titles. These titles include such noted favorites as Yar's Revenge®, Night Driver(TM), Canyon Bomber and Crystal Castles® among many others.
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