Astrosmash (Mattel 1981)

Originally an Asteroid clone for the Intellivision, the game was retooled to avoid a lawsuit.

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• classic
• video
• games
• console
• Intellivision
• Asteroids
• Astrosmash

[rob16248]

This game used to drive me nuts. It never used to end. I'd get their quarterly (?) newsletter, and it would include other peoples "amazing" achievements. One would state they'd scored over a million playing this. I'd say yeah, so? Who hasn't?

[Umma6umma]

@rob16248 Yeah, it had a sliding difficulty level, so that if you started losing lives the difficulty would automatically scale back.

[rob16248]

@Umma6umma Thanks Umma6umma, I didn't know that. How did you find this out, by the way? You see, I've only started to find out all sorts of intresting stuff since checking it all out on YouTube, and was surprised theres' so much appreciation for it all. You probably knew (I didn't) there were Easter eggs in games, way back then. An upload on YouTube called Deadly Dogs (a variation on Tron Deadly Discs)shows how player can can battle against hotdogs instead of the usual warriors.

[THEMONSTERMATTMAN]

LOVED THIS GAME!

[fortysevenbteg]

I notice there doesn't seem to be any collision detection on the player's shots vs. the enemies. They pass right through them, destroying multiple objects, until they reach the top of the screen.

This is different behavior than I've witnessed in other gameplay footage. I wonder if this is tied to the skill level? **looks into it**

[pokerjet]

Remember this is the game where u could get "Meteor" which they originally hid due to them being afraid Atari would say it was too close to "another" game :)

[sunupsam]

I played this game to death. I remember thinking Oh cool, it's a cross between Space Invaders and Asteroids. :)