Here is the title screen for the first Asteroids game. It is is a really basic title screen, no colour. Even the asteroids are just white outlines. The menu only has a start a start button, no instructions or anything. Even though the title screen is so boring, it is still a fun game to play and at the time of release it would've probably looked worse than this.
The game plays exactly how you think it would play really. Again it is still really basic, your ship is just a triangle and the asteroids are just white outlines that move around. You move around by using the arrow keys, you can only move forward and turn left and right, you cant move left and right. This makes the game much more difficult. In the top left is where the scoring system, you gain points the more asteroids you destroy. You only start the game with 3 lives, this is displayed on the top left also. After you have destroyed all the asteroids, you advance to a new level where it gets harder each time. There is also another thing that can kill you, the game aliens which randomly come and go and try to kill you. It uses really simple sound effects, when you shoot its just a simple beep noise, and when you die its like a fuzzy noise. This just shows that you don't need amazing visuals to make game good or addictive.
This version of the game is slightly better visually but still works exactly the same . All that's different with this version is they've added textures and colour to the asteroids and actually turned the space ship into a ship instead of a triangle. Other than a few basic textures nothing has changed.
Here is a screenshot of the game in motion. Again, you can see that visually the game is slightly better. But it looks as if they've used the same shapes for the asteroids but just laid a texture over it. Also they added new sounds for the ship shooting.
This version of Asteroids is the best I could find visually. The first thing i noticed was the menu. IT had a much better background than all the others, it also displayed the controls which no of the others did and also displayed the different abilities and unlocks you can achieve while playing.
In game was also a lot better than the others. It actually had a background of space which looks pretty cool. The asteroids and ship looked quite cartoony but it worked. The asteroids had a better sense in quality about them, even though they wasnt as detailed as the last game, they looked better because you could tell a texture wasnt just slapped over the thing. Also every time you hit an asteroid a little explosion happens which actually looked pretty good. As always the score is located in the top right and your life in the top left.
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