Asteroids Deluxe - Atari 7800

Hey, my original review of this game sucks and I'm embarrassed by it. I started playing Asteroids Deluxe at length last year and it's great. I'm upgrading this to a 5 star must buy.

This homebrew is perfect! What a perfect game for those of us that wished Atari made Asteroids Deluxe for their consoles. Finally after all these years.I can play Asteroids Deluxe at home.

Properly reprogrammed in a spectacular vector-like fashion, players are in for a treat in receiving a 2-in-1 deal. Both Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe are presented in splendid detail and all the action with excitement recalled from the Arcade originals.

The physics are fantastic providing excellent gameplay with the aforementioned graphics, simple yet effective sound effects (as is the case with Arcade original), all being wonderfully showcased here.

Details spent on AI, including the various behaviors of the enemies is recreated very well, once again blurring the line between Arcade original and this must have port on the 7800. It is without question, a very much recommended title and awesome edition to your gaming collection.

Asteroids Deluxe is amazing - light-year's better than the GCC(Atari) produced version, for the 7800. Programmer Bob DeCrescenzo outdid himself, replicating vector graphics combined with near-perfect arcade action! Asteroids Deluxe is a non-stop, insane challenge!I find myself laughing like a kid, every time I get blasted by a UFO! Thank God I am not pumping quarters into this thing!
In addition, I love the label artwork - colorful and exciting - reminiscent of the original arcade cabinet art. Too bad Atari chose the drab silver and black scheme for 7800 labels.

Love it even more than BdC's SPACE INVADERS, and that's saying something. It's even relatively easy to grab that first extra life, something I always appreciated about the arcade version of DELUXE, particularly because I saved most of my quarters for comic books and wanted the most bang for my gaming buck. I don't know how you did it so magnificently, but you did, and I thank you. It's like a kid-who-wishes-he-could-bring-arcade-machines-home-with-him's dream come true.

Asteroids Deluxe is an extensive hack of the Atari 7800 version of Asteroids, re-creating the sequel to the original arcade classic. As in the original Asteroids, you control a space ship armed with an unlimited supply of ammunition, and must blast away at drifting asteroids and enemy flying saucers. Asteroids Deluxe ups the ante by adding another enemy - a killer satellite which will split into six smaller ships that try to ram your ship and destroy it. Also, you have a shield (instead of Asteroids\' hyperspace) which will let your ship harmlessly bounce off objects and protect you from enemy fire - but only for a short time.Asteroids Deluxe is a great translation of the arcade game. Gone are the 7800\'s round and rendered, brightly-colored spheroids, and in their place are finely detailed, sharp-edged, pseudo-vector graphics. While the limitations of the 7800 don\'t allow for the kind of resolution necessary to really pull off a true vector "look", the graphics are still very faithful to the original game, except the vectors are green instead of the arcade game\'s light blue (which was achieved with a colored overlay). The audio is decent, but lacks the punch of the arcade game. There are some nice options available, including a couple of two-player simultaneous modes, and a "hidden" version of the original arcade Asteroids. There are some minor quibbles, like a lack of exhaust flame on the player\'s ship in Asteroids, no "arcade" difficulty setting (and no explanation in the manual as to what the different difficulty settings mean), and somewhat inconsistent collision detection at times; but these are fairly minor points. The bottom line is - Asteroids Deluxe has all the fun and frenetic gameplay of two original arcade classics.The big question is - if you already have Atari\'s 7800 version of Asteroids, is there any reason to get this one? The answer is yes, if you\'re after a more arcade-like experience. Asteroids Deluxe is two classic games in one, and if you have a 7800, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy.

Any Asteroids Deluxe fan owes it to themselves to buy a copy of this cart! This game features great graphics, sounds, controls, and most importantly... gameplay. Well worth the price of admission!

Very good port of the arcade classic! It was obvious that every effort was made to make this as authentic as possible, just short of having the vector graphics of the original- even the slight green tint of the graphics are reminiscent of the color overlay from the original coin-op. Very fun game, and a great stress reliever! Nice job!

My first impression was...WOW!!! I am amazed at the level of detail and artistic passion that went into this title! This is definitely better than what we would have seen had Atari released this back in the 80\'s. The rocks rotate, the shields work just as expected, the diamond-shaped enemy thingy breaks apart and chases after you just as I remember from the arcade. Take it from a very O.C.D. Atari game player, this game ROCKS! (no pun intended)

Hey, it's Asteroids. Dig it. The original Atari 7800 version is pretty great, so if you don't have a lot of cheese to spend or you are not an Asteroids fan to begin with, I would suggest spending your money or some of the other funktastic Atari 7800 homebrew.