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The problem with calling this Asteroids is that there are no asteroids. :) This reminds me more of an old DOS shareware game called Spacewar (http://www.youtub
by jaredsohn 15y ago
The problem with calling this Asteroids is that there are no asteroids. :)
This reminds me more of an old DOS shareware game called Spacewar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY5qHe2VadA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY5qHe2VadA), which was also multi-player although that game also allowed turning on gravity and warping (I see a comment mentioning warping in this game but I don't see it in the command list.)
This was one of my (and my friends') favorite small games back around 1990.
Edit: It was a DOS game when I played it. It is good to feel like a young person when talking about a game that I played 22 years ago.
- ajross 15y agoUh... Spacewar was an old PDP-1 game. It predates DOS by a little bit. And the microprocessor. And DRAM. And raster displays (the output was two analog channels fed to a raw CRT). It was essentially everyone's favorite computer game (everyone who knew what a computer game was) back around 1962.
- sehugg 15y agoAnd Spacewar even introduced the concept of "hyperspace" (don't let Atari ever tell you different)
- jhickner 15y agoThere was another one called Subspace (now Continuum) http://www.getcontinuum.com/ http://www.getcontinuum.com/. I loved the early days of that game. 1997-ish.
- asynchronous13 15y agoI thought you meant the 1987-ish mac game called Continuum. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/various/continuum/index.html http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/various/continuum/index.h... http://www.ski-epic.com/continuum_downloads/index.html http://www.ski-epic.com/continuum_downloads/index.html
- StavrosK 15y agoOh man, I remember finding the client on a CD around '97. I had no internet, but I roamed those corridors alone for hours... Those were the days.
- onehp 15y agoI spent hours flying round in that thing, one of the most perfect online competitive experiences I've had in gaming so far.
- untog 15y agoOnly partially related, but there was a fantastic game called Star Control 2 once upon a time. The main single player game was a big long quest, but it also had a 'Melee' mode where you and a friend could go up against each other in Asteroids-style space combat- putting different types of ships with different weapons against each other. So much fun was had. Good news is that it's been ported to modern systems: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/ http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
- mkramlich 15y agoindeed. basically: Asteroids = Space War + asteroids + single-player + occasional alien ship i've recreated both games a few times over the years, as hobby prototypes. fun games, simple mechanics. flying & shooting + imagination FTW.
- mrgreenfur 15y agoI came to say this exact thing. Please make this one into an MMO next.
- jaredsohn 15y agoCheck out http://www.mmospacewar.com/ http://www.mmospacewar.com/. I made a few changes to mmoasteroids.com to make it behave more like the DOS version of Spacewar. Unfortunately, Firebase isn't available for another 1 day 18 hours 18 minutes and 10 seconds yet (http://www.firebase.com http://www.firebase.com), so anyone who plays this will share the world and scoreboard with MMO Asteroids for now. (Hopefully this doesn't present a problem to the guy who created MMOAsteroids; there are already plenty of cheaters on there anyway.) New features: warp (press 'z') and instead of instant death you have an energy which gets depleted by using thrust, colliding with other ships/bullets, and warping.