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MineStorm
''Mine Storm'' (also written as ''MineStorm'') is a multidirectional shooter similar to Atari, Inc. Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry. Based primarily around the Sunny ...'s 1979 ''Asteroids (game), Asteroids'' arcade game. It was published in 1982 by General Consumer Electronics as the pack-in game, built-in game for the Vectrex system. ''Mine Storm'' was implemented by John Hall. Gameplay Developed by General Consumer Electronics, Vectrex's manufacturer, it was built into the game system. The gameplay is very similar to that of Atari's ''Asteroids (game), Asteroids''. The game begins with a large enemy ship dropping mines onto the field as an ominous jingle plays, and moves from the top to the bottom of the screen, where it disappears. The player's ship starts in the middle of the field with 5 lives. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asteroids (game)
''Asteroids'' is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in 1979 in video games, November 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a single spaceship in an Asteroid belt, asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the asteroids and saucers, while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire. The game becomes harder as the number of asteroids increases. ''Asteroids'' was conceived during a meeting between Logg and Rains, who decided to use hardware developed by Howard Delman previously used for ''Lunar Lander (1979 video game), Lunar Lander''. Asteroids was based on an unfinished game titled ''Cosmos''; its physics model, control scheme, and gameplay elements were derived from ''Spacewar!'', ''Computer Space'', and ''Space Invaders'' and refined through trial and error. The game is rendered on a vector display in a two-dimensional v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |