The original space ace flying shooter and the last great black-and-white game.
Asteroids' laser-thin vector graphics drew a wedge-shaped spaceship floating amid a storm of abstract space boulders, all of which had to be blasted into smaller and smaller chunks.
From its fluid game play, to the design of its drone, Asteroids had a minimalist elegance unmatched until the advent of Tetris.
Asteroids was also the first arcade game with an electronic scoreboard, which let high-scoring players tap their initials onto a trophy screen at the end of a record-beating game. This offered the opportunity to compete with unseen opposers.
fig. 1. Drift
fig. 2. Winroids
fig. 3. Roxx
