THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE

ASTEROID ATTACK

PUBLISHER
Appeared as an article in Your Computer magazine

AUTHOR
Ian Collier

YEAR
1985

DESCRIPTION
Clone of arcade game "Asteroids".

CONTROLS
They keyboard controls are redefinable.

INSTRUCTIONS
You control a rotating ship in the middle of the screen and have
to defend it against the asteroids which float past by shooting
at them.  A large asteroid divides into two medium sized ones
when it is hit; a medium asteroid gives two small ones, and a
small one is destroyed when it is hit.  Sometimes an alien ship
will fly past to mess things up and try to shoot you.  For
emergencies you have a thruster which causes your ship to move,
but it is difficult to stop again afterwards.  There is also the
hyperspace button which instantly teleports you to a random
location, but there are no guarantees that it is a safe location.


URL
ftp.nvg.unit.no in /pub/sinclair/incoming (!) as part of the
imcgames.zip.

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