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Asteroids

1979 video game

Video gamevideo gameQ748890

Developer: Atari, Inc.
Publisher: Atari, Inc.
Released: November 1979
Platforms: arcade video game machine
, Atari 2600
, Atari 7800
+5 more
Genre: shooter game
, science fiction video game
Game mode: multiplayer video game
, single-player video game

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Asteroids is a 1979 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. It was released by Taito and Sega in Japan. The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the asteroids and saucers while avoiding colliding with either or being hit by the saucers' counterfire. The game becomes more difficult as the number of asteroids increases.

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