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asteroids
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n. (plural of asteroid English)
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Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc. and designed by Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Dominic Walsh. 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 asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire. The game becomes harder as the number of asteroids increases.
Asteroids was one of the first major hits of the golden age of arcade games. The game sold over 70,000 arcade cabinets and proved both popular with players and influential with developers. It has since been ported to multiple platforms. Asteroids was widely imitated and directly influenced Defender, Gravitar, and many other video games.
Asteroids was conceived during a meeting between Logg and Rains and used hardware developed by Howard Delman previously used for Lunar Lander. Based on an unfinished game titled Cosmos and inspired by Spacewar! and Computer Space, both early shoot 'em up video games, Asteroids physics model and control scheme were derived by Logg from these earlier games and refined through trial and error. The game is rendered on a vector display in a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both screen axes.
Usage examples of "asteroids".
The old Klingon watched with growing alarm as the huge oblong rock rose above the other asteroids in the Boneyard, giving it a clear line of sight in almost every direction.
Some asteroids were pure granite or basalt, chunks of mountains in orbit around each other, while others held traces of something worthwhile.
Some rough computations told him the approximate part of the asteroid belt where he thought other asteroids of the same general makeup might be found.
There was an infinity of asteroids up there, and it would take decades to explore them all.
Been working the asteroids seven years, now, and I finally got me some luck.
The absolute position of asteroids, and of all other heavenly bodies, for that matter, keeps changing every instant.
You could sign a paper agreeing to pay me ten million bucks, soon as you get back from the asteroids with your claim sewed up.
Out there on the asteroids, if the UMC men ever got hold of him, it would be no great problem to dispose of him for keeps.
Beneath a bulbous belly hung two pairs of pincers, one fore and one aft, for grappling onto small asteroids that were two big for loading.
The three-dimensional hologram showed an undistinguished stretch of space with no class-M planets and vast pockets of asteroids and dust.
He and his wife had been visiting some of their properties scattered through the smaller asteroids, and they were coming to Mars for the social season.
The two dimensions of the ecliptic plane are relatively crowded with worlds and their satellites, and the cosmic debris of meteors, asteroids, and comets.
Leaning over the little table, golden lights playing in her reddish hair, Lilith was listening as intently as if those queer asteroids were somehow as supremely important to her as they had become to me.
The Legion survey ship that made the first chart found five iron asteroids and three snowballs like this one.
What we analyzed was not just the various alloys of the asteroids themselves, but also collected samples of adhering surface dust.