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You can't get anymore retro than this classic shoot-em-up game. Yes, the graphics are chunky - a far cry from X-Box or PS2
standards - but at the time it seemed like 'space-age' technology :-)
In the years after Star Wars, anything involving outer space, speedy interstellar
craft and dangerous battles was considered golden. Into this arena of sci-fi fantasy came Atari’s Asteroids, one
of the most enduring hits in video game history. Atari’s recipe for addiction consisted of the following: one screen,
five buttons, one ship, a few UFO’s, and several ship-smashing asteroids. Smack dab in the center of the action
was your triangle-shaped spacecraft, adrift in a sea of space rocks. The Blasting large, slow-moving asteroids turned them
into two medium-sized, speedier asteroids. Another blast at the medium asteroids split them into small, fast-moving asteroids,
which could be vaporized with one more shot. Thus, if you started firing wildly into fields of big asteroids, you would likely
end up in an even bigger mess than you started with, facing a swarm of tiny, zippy asteroids. The controls allow you to rotate
left and right, thrust, warp into hyperspace, and most importantly, to fire your blaster at the rocky menaces. For a generation
of video game addicts, Asteroids will always mean simple graphics, stressful and addictive gameplay, and dreams of high-scoring
glory
Tetris is life. Think about it : As time passes, life's little problems incessantly pour down in chunks. Somehow, someway,
you must conquer these hurdles, fitting them together so you can move on. Ok, maybe I'm taking the metaphor too far. In any
case, this is one of the all time classic games and it was Alexey Pajitnov who created Tetris on an Electronica 60 while working
for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Tetris was released in the United States in 1986. The game's popularity was tremendous,
and many were instantly hooked - it was a software blockbuster
Way back in 1981, kids had absolutely nothing to do. Nothing but diddly-squat.
So to spice things up a little bit, youths the world over thought they might as well try killing themselves by running out
in front of oncoming vehicles whilst other feral children made monkey noises and jeered "Chicken!" repeatedly.
Thankfully,
a thoughtful Japanese company called Konami decided they'd had enough of all these daredevil japes and made a computer game
based on this very theme just so kids would stop getting flattened by articulated lorries. And henceforth, Frogger was born.
It's essentially the same idea, but with a frog.
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