Anyone Own A Blasteroids?

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I remember this game vaguely, anyone here own one?

Can't really remember the gameplay, if it was fun or not...

Any thoughts?

Any Pics?
 
I used to. It's fun, but I sold it simply because I hated moving it around. The shape and weight of it is distributed extremely awkwardly, and it tried to kill me twice trying to relocate it.
 
Yes, skinny shaft and big head. That's Blasteroids! Please insert dick jokes now...
 
I've only played it in MAME but I do have a spinner on my cab. No, I do not also have fighting sticks, Hall stick, 72 buttons etc.

Back to the point - he gameplay is very good but this is one of those quarter eaters like Gauntlet or TMNT/Simpsons/Xmen that demands you add credits to keep playing once your ship's "health" is gone. Therefore it's pretty good in a pay for play environment although a rip-off, and in a home game, pointless because you can always add more credits. But for gameplay, it's enjoyable enough that I load it up once or twice a year.
 
I remember this game vaguely, anyone here own one?

Can't really remember the gameplay, if it was fun or not...

Any thoughts?

Any Pics?

I played one at PGRE last year. Personally, I didn't care for it. I dig the spinner control for rotating the ship, but I'll take the oldschool Asteroids gameplay and vector graphics over Blasteroids any day.
 
I have one and I love it, great game, but the game is even better two player, I think that is where the game really shines.

But it has got to be one of the single heaviest cabinets I have ever owned.
 
I remember this game vaguely, anyone here own one?

Can't really remember the gameplay, if it was fun or not...

Any thoughts?

Any Pics?

I had a beautiful one and got tired of it within about 10 plays. The continue feature just makes the game horrible in a home use environment. It's a poor raster version of Space Duel, which is a poor sequel to Asteroids. Stick with Asteroids, there's nothing better in that genre. I sold mine pretty cheap (maybe $200?), was happy to get that much, was happy to see it go and have never missed it. Not a real common game, but not very desirable either.

That all said, I've got a bunch of CP parts and tested working boards for it. How's that for a sales pitch? Makes you just want to flood my email with requests, doesn't it?
 
I had a beautiful one and got tired of it within about 10 plays. The continue feature just makes the game horrible in a home use environment. It's a poor raster version of Space Duel, which is a poor sequel to Asteroids. Stick with Asteroids, there's nothing better in that genre. I sold mine pretty cheap (maybe $200?), was happy to get that much, was happy to see it go and have never missed it. Not a real common game, but not very desirable either.

That all said, I've got a bunch of CP parts and tested working boards for it. How's that for a sales pitch? Makes you just want to flood my email with requests, doesn't it?

I'd disagree, I think the spinner really makes that game great, imagine if you had the ability to change the rate at which you rotated your ship in Asteroids/Deluxe/Space Duel, I think all three of the games would have been massively better.

I love my Space Duel, its a beautiful machine, and the game play is fantastic, color vector graphics at its best! You really can't beat it!
 
I have one and I love it. The rotary knob is great for me, Ive owned Asteroids an AD and Space Duel (still working on getting it going) and I think the rotary is great for newbs that cant get the hang of the old school L/R buttons no my AD.

The Physics are great in the gameplay and the 2 player aspect is awesome.

People dont like to continue?
 
People dont like to continue?

I found that in a home setting, when games are on free play, continue really kills the game. Just blast away, barely even having to try and make some progress. Get killed? No cares on how you were playing, just hit continue. Kind of takes away any effort to get better at the game.

Finish the game in a public arcade setting? Challenging or expensive.

Finish the game in a free play home setting? Easy as can be, all it takes is time to keep playing until you eventually finish. Someone playing the game for the very first time could do it. Makes the game not fun at all.

Continuing while on free play doesn't kill every game, but it definitely kills this one.
 
I have one and I love it. The rotary knob is great for me, Ive owned Asteroids an AD and Space Duel (still working on getting it going) and I think the rotary is great for newbs that cant get the hang of the old school L/R buttons no my AD.

The Physics are great in the gameplay and the 2 player aspect is awesome.

People dont like to continue?

Agreed, its a great game two player, especially if you combine the ships.

I found that in a home setting, when games are on free play, continue really kills the game. Just blast away, barely even having to try and make some progress. Get killed? No cares on how you were playing, just hit continue. Kind of takes away any effort to get better at the game.

Finish the game in a public arcade setting? Challenging or expensive.

Finish the game in a free play home setting? Easy as can be, all it takes is time to keep playing until you eventually finish. Someone playing the game for the very first time could do it. Makes the game not fun at all.

Continuing while on free play doesn't kill every game, but it definitely kills this one.

I actually have continues disabled on my home machine for that reason. Its just a dip-switch setting, also makes the high score list better as well. You can tell when you are improving!
 
blasteroids

I have one that I got for about 100 bucks... I have always thought it was a cool game that doesnt get any love at all

i have all the asteroids games and got the blasteroids for this reason. i like the two player and the gun upgrades you can get on blasteroids. i think there are alot worse games out there that get love. play it with the volume up, pretty nice.
 
I'd like to replicate a Blasteroids cabinet and turn it into this:

 
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