Asteroids

December 31, 1981

Collection

Asteroids

Platforms

Atari 2600

Companies

Atari Polyvox

Genres

Shooter

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Atari 2600's Asteroids has an unused functionality for showing graphics of the spaceship as a life counter instead of the number, much like the arcade version. This was most likely changed for processing power reasons, as only six ships can be displayed at a time.

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