Asteroids appeared in 1979. In this game, you were a single small ship trapped in an asteroid field. You had to blast the big rocks into smaller and smaller pieces, until you killed the last piece and more asteroids appeared. Occasionally, a small alien ship would show up and shoot at you, but generally it just ran into me.
I never got Asteroids. Frankly, if you were dumb enough to fly around in an asteroid field, you probably deserved to get hit by one. Remember The Empire Strikes Back? Even the Empire does not fly into asteroid fields and they have a callous disregard for human life.
And who or what was this other alien ship? It was obviously alien, as it was a small oblong saucer (and humans never pilot those). Why was this alien also in the asteroid field? Why was it attacking you? Could you not work together to escape what was inevitable death? Could not a great friendship flourish which would result in the uniting of two disparate races in harmony? Apparently not, as the little bastard insisted on attacking you. Stupid alien.
Up next: More Aliens!
2 comments:
Perhaps it is a silly game (the way you describe it certainly makes it seem so) but I still can't help playing it over and over. I'll admit that when you think about it, the game is pointless and random.
Well, back in the day, all those games were random and pointless. I mean, Donkey Kong featured a plumber trying to rescue a princess from an ape that threw barrels.
We also have to remember that Asteroids and its ilk were state-of-the-art back in the '80s. That's all they had to work with and they still made great games.
All that being said, they were and are immense fun. Sometimes, all you really want is to blow something up :) Pointless and random often beats convoluted and dense.
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