Meteorites

a.k.a. Disasteroids

created and published by Electra Concepts in 1983, running on Atari 5200

type: shooter
genre: Science Fiction, Arena shooter, Asteroids-like
perspective: bird's-eye fixed camera
player options: shared-screen, single player

languages: eng

Official description

METEORITES OFFERS
* New levels of superior game play capability from full 12k programming
* 24 progressive game skill levels
* True arcade action/control
* Exciting new challenges for beginner and advanced players
* One or two player mode

Zerothis - # 2007-07-04 21:30:35 - official description - Back cover of box

Description

Rarity 8 very rare+. North America NTSC. 1 player or 2 players alternating. Both players take turns using one controller plugged into port 1.
This game may be rarer than Bounty Bob Strikes Back. Disasteroids was designed to fill the gap where Atari announced Asteroids as a launch title but then canceled it. But Atari pressured Electra Concepts to use a different name. It is a direct clone of its contemporary, right down to the 8-bit physics that allow aster-uh-meteorites to be broken in to smaller and smaller pieces till they disappear. And in a tight spot you can jump into hype-ah-subsp-also-taken-eehh-EUCLIDEARSPACE, and appear at some random point on the screen.

(Zerothis) - # 2008-09-15 21:10:47