Talk:Asteroids (arcade game)
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[edit] Asteroids Record
There was a recent record attempt where someone played this for 27 hours. I will pull it up. Mark Richards 23:45, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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- How did he get 40 million points if the score wraps round at 100,000? 212.219.190.6 13:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Not that hard to conceive that wrap arounds are counted. I.E. 40 million means 400 wrap arounds. --Marty Goldberg 14:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Link suggestions
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[edit] "Asteroids" shouldn't go to the computer game
Excuse me for saying so, everyone but diehard game fanatics would think that "Asteroids" should refer to astronomical asteroids, not the ancient computer game which after all was named after them. It's pretty ridiculous that this happened. Google for asteroids and the top 9 hits links to astronomical asteroids, not the computer game.
I think this an example of wikipedia being hijacked by a small but obsessive minority to the detriment of the common user. --24.6.109.20
- Wikipedia standards state that whenever possible, articles should always be singular. Therefore, asteroid does indeed link to what you think it does. Asteroids, however, is the proper name of an arcade game and cannot be made singular. There is no conflict because anyone wanting to link to the "asteroid" article should make the wikilink singular, even when referring to them in the plural, like this: [[asteroid]]s. — Frecklefoot | Talk 13:39, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
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- I would expect this page to have been about lumps of rock that float around the solar system, not the computer game. I'd kinda expect this page to be a redirect to Asteroid and this article to be contained in Asteroids (Computer game) or something like that. Although I reckon most people will have come accross the game and be aware of it I imagine that any one who was wanting to research Asteroids as in the object in space would just type 'Asteroids' into the search and wouldnt expect to find this page. At the worst case can this page at least be a disambiguation? I dont think the text at the start has the right effect. --Timmywimmy 15:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I can see what you're getting at, but I don't understand how making this page a disambig would make things better. People looking for the game would have one extra hop, people looking for the astronomical meaning would still have to go through an intermediate page, and the disambig line is currently the first thing in the article anyway.
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- If you wish to have a go at rephrasing the disambig line here, please do. I don't think it's that great, personally. Fourohfour 15:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
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- Asteroids is the name of the computer game. Asteroid is the name for a rock in the solar system. The problem is not with the definitions but that people tend to type "Asteroids" instead of "Asteroid" by human nature - for some reason we don't think of a singular asteroid when we go searching for them. It doesn't matter how inconvenient Wikipedia is as long as it is accurate! That's the most important thing. Must point out (using me own bad grammar) the main argument against this by Timmywimmy is full of "kinda" and "reckon" not really lending weight to the correct definition argument. movieapply
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[edit] 1981?!
What is the basis for the inclusion of Asteroids in the "1981 computer games" category? Perhaps someone released a conversion in 1981. Versions were probably released in 82, 83, 84 and 85 too, but I don't think that warrants Asteroids inclusion in those years' categories. If there are no objections, I plan on removing this. Fourohfour 17:56, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Link Spam
I count 16 Asteroids external links. That's like link spam! I'm clearing it up. You can see the history if you want to see the original links. I mean, Asteroids Fan Fiction! WTF? 24.19.161.152 03:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
- I don't know if the inclusion of such links is justified or not, but I found the very *existence* of Asteroids Fan Fiction to be..... WTF indeed. You're in a triangular ship, and you shoot rocks and robot ships. It's amazing they got such a great game out of such a basic premise, but I think it defies belief that anyone wrote "fan fiction" about it.
- BTW, the "Asteroids: Festival Among the Rocks" story reminded me of the spoken lines in the loading screens of the 1998 Activision "update" of the game; I wonder if they were taken from there?
- Fourohfour 17:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Half-baked page move
Regarding the page move, I made this comment to the user responsible. I don't have a problem with people moving stuff where there is a reasonable case, but I do believe they have a duty to carry it through properly. The way things are just now, it appears that the page move was simply making a point, and has done nothing except to add a small level of additional unneeded complexity into the system.
Either Asteroids should be a disambig page, or it should be the game article. There is no point simply redirecting Asteroids to Asteroids (game). The question is, what should go on the disambig page? The game, yes. The planetary bodies, yes. Anything else.?
Fourohfour 10:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
- On second thoughts, it might be a good move to have Asteroid (disambiguation) and have Asteroids (with the planetary Asteroid article remaining where it is. Fourohfour 12:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Asteroids arcade clones....
Does anybody know where there is a definitive list of Arcade game "clones" or basic copies of the game Asteroids with improvements etc? Just arcade versions is all I am looking for, I remember plenty of them, into the mid-90s even and probably later. I remember them, but don't remember any of their names. Nagelfar 21:31, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Nowadays, hundreds of different Asteroids clones and variants can be found on the web, as it is a popular game for beginning programmers to attempt.Since this game is such a major classic and so simple, many Flash games replicate it for the user to play while the actual game loads.[citation needed]
- A citation is needed? Is this really contested? who would question something like this? and so, I remove. 64.238.49.65 18:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bug: Limited number of objects onscreen at once
I seem to recall that the Asteroids arcade machines could only display a certain number of objects on the screen at once (around 40 asteroids or so, I think) and that once you reached this number, strange things started to happen, like being able to destroy a large asteroid with a single bullet. Unfornately, a quick web search doesn't turn up any sources to back me up. Does anyone else have any info on this? RickScott 02:20, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
