If there are enemies, they follow the most dangerous.ĥ.- Enemies. If there are only meteors, they destroy the nearest. But you can activate all the weapons from the very first time if you wish.ģ.- Energy weapons are far more effective, but consume a lot of energy. You get new weapons while you get new levels.

Why the greek alphabet? It's cool.Ģ.- Seven weapons. Note: we highly recommend using a pad because you'll have more control flying the starship.ġ.- 24 levels, that follow the greek alphabet. We have added some aspects, besides the famous UFO: a demon, and some enemy ships that launch rockets to destroy us. Meteoroids 3D doesn't want to be better than Asteroids that's impossible. To do this we have created a modern game, with weapons and scenarios in three dimensions, but with the simplicity of the game of the time. Meteoroids 3D doesn't pretend anything except two things: to be a tribute to Asteroids, and to allow the player to go back to destroying space rocks in an absurd and crazy way. And the inertia effects were really amazing for the time. A simple black background, a white triangle, and figures representing asteroids, which were destroyed as we shot white dots from our triangle, which was our ship. How could something so simple be so addictive? How could they simulate the physics of that little white triangle on a black background in such a way?Īsteroids was as simple as it gets. One of the machines that personally caught my attention was Atari's Asteroids.

We were leaving school, and we were going to spend our precious coins in the arcade machines. Asteroids: when the simplest is the most addictive.Įighties of the twentieth century.

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