Atari Showcase: Asteroids (Atari 2600)

Played on the Atari 2600+
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The Atari 2600 version of Asteroids was released in 1981 and is a port of the popular 1979 arcade game where players pilot a spaceship to destroy drifting asteroids. Using a joystick to control movement and a fire button for torpedoes, players must break large asteroids into smaller fragments, with the goal of surviving as long as possible against increasingly challenging waves. The 2600 port was a major hit for the console, selling over three million copies.

Programmers Brad Stewart and Bob Smith were unable to fit the Atari VCS port into a 4 KB cartridge. It became the first game for the console to use bank switching, a technique that increases ROM size from 4 KB to 8 KB.

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