andrewb
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I recently got a hold of an Asteroids Deluxe board that had an original set of v1 ROMs, complete with the original Atari stickers. After popping this board in my machine and playing it for a while, I have found that I really love these ROMs.
AD has become one of my favorite games, and am good for maybe 30-35k points on the v2 ROMs, on a good day. However, I find the pace of the v1 ROMs to much faster, and almost make it a completely different game. I find it far more addicting (perhaps because it pisses you off so much more easily.)
As a brief aside, it's also worth noting that the v1 ROMs are not the same as the v2 ROMs with the 'hard' dip switch setting. I believe the v2 ROMs on hard are still not as hard as v1, and there's a definite difference in the code, as the alien ship never appears in v1 before the end of the second round, where in v2 it will appear sooner than that, even on the hard setting.
It's understandable that AD was Atari's response to people getting perhaps too good at Asteroids, and arguably they did make it a little too hard from a business/marketing perspective (as the difficulty of the v1 ROMs surely turned the average or new player off), but as a regular player I find the harder gameplay really fun, and almost preferable to the v2 ROMs.
Any other AD lovers out there with opinions?
AD has become one of my favorite games, and am good for maybe 30-35k points on the v2 ROMs, on a good day. However, I find the pace of the v1 ROMs to much faster, and almost make it a completely different game. I find it far more addicting (perhaps because it pisses you off so much more easily.)
As a brief aside, it's also worth noting that the v1 ROMs are not the same as the v2 ROMs with the 'hard' dip switch setting. I believe the v2 ROMs on hard are still not as hard as v1, and there's a definite difference in the code, as the alien ship never appears in v1 before the end of the second round, where in v2 it will appear sooner than that, even on the hard setting.
It's understandable that AD was Atari's response to people getting perhaps too good at Asteroids, and arguably they did make it a little too hard from a business/marketing perspective (as the difficulty of the v1 ROMs surely turned the average or new player off), but as a regular player I find the harder gameplay really fun, and almost preferable to the v2 ROMs.
Any other AD lovers out there with opinions?


