Asteroids in Space

created and published by Quality Software in 1980, running on Apple II E
type: shooter
genre: Science Fiction, Arena shooter
perspective: bird's-eye fixed camera
player options: single player
languages: eng
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Descriptions (2)

Make little asteroids out of big ones, plus occasional hostile alien ships.
Hyperspace, autobrake, autofire. Quality Software.
Later called Meteoroids In Space, this was a clone of the popular arcade game, "Asteroids", which itself was a commercial version of a very early computer game called "Spacewar"

AndreaD # 2021-08-27 16:27:59 - Softalk
According to Bruce Wallace who coded the game, this was an Apple II Top 10 Best Seller in 1980-1981

(Retro-Maniac) - # 2007-08-04 17:12:17 - source

Technical specs

display: raster

Authors / Staff

coding

Bruce Wallace (coding)

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