Wow. This brings me back to 1980 in my college arcade. I used to use the same strategy of flying my ship vertical with 1 or 2 asteroids left. By constantly flying vertically it was harder for that tiny ship to destroy me.
Yes, it's surprising to me how difficult it seems for people to master that strategy. I can only guess it's because of the coordination it takes of using all buttons rather than a joystick.
@@DeeJayWheels No surprisingly! By the time a new player is ready to learn to saucer hunt, they already know their way around the buttons. It's knowing how the screen wraps that makes saucer hunting so much easier. My first saucer hunt compared to my latest is night and day. I would only fire if the saucer was directly above me; but now I fire from anywhere because I can tell where to aim to hit it. The biggest step to mastery is simply learning how the game moves. Rewatching today I learned I gotta use more trigger discipline. I noticed you only prefire when both your ship and asteroid are side by side or if you're firing over the asteroid, never into it while facing away; so thanks for that!
I was 12 when Asteroids made its debut. I remember the eye strain vividly but the painful wrists were epic. Approaching 60, my wrists hurt just watching this video. Brings back wonderful childhood memories, you are a legend in my mind. 🙂
I just found out about Arcade 1 up machines and bought a partycade (tabletop) Asteroids that has Asteroids Deluxe and I'm having so much fun playing it. It's been like 35 years since I played it, so I'm rusty but still it brings you right back to those teen years. Also picked up a partycade version of Defender that has authentic controls, that one's even more fun to play.
Nice video. Back in the classic era of arcade gaming (early 80s) more than once I was able to exceed 100,000 (max score)on the first ship using the technique demonstrated in the video. I remember playing Asteroids so that the extra ships would stack up across the top of the screen which caused the game to slow way down making it even easier to play because it must redraw those ships and the game hardware was not optimized for that many objects to be on the screen. To make matters worse, Asteroids continues to add more ships into memory even though they are not displayed, and like many other arcade games of that era (Pacman, Donkey Kong, etc), the memory would become corrupted at some point. I am assuming that extra ships were limited to 256 (1 byte in memory) and once the number was exceeded, the number rolled over to become a negative number, and the game would crash causing a full reset of the game.
Thanks for trip down memory lane.... back in the day I used to line up those ships across the top of the screen as well. I didn't know there was a record for 5 ship high score... I might have been close to that score as well.
Glad to hear it. Keep at it. It's all about anticipation and using your peripherals. Like anything else, the more you play the better feel you will have for the game.
@@DeeJayWheels It was this game, Missile Command and Defender that everyone was good at except me lol! Give me some Ms Pac-Man and Star Castle and it's on!
I’m out here playing this every other day on my laptop and I love it. Love the fluidity, the simple graphics and elements, the escalation, the various strategies I can implement. Love the “machine gun” ability along with semi-auto. The random hyperspace gambles. I would love to see a new version of this just, slightly updated - maybe multiplayer options (ie two rockets in one screen), handicapped levels or spaceship types available, slight graphics updates - still simple, but more fluid. Maybe something like moving black holes to avoid or else they spin you into hyperspace instead of doing it manually. Game has so much potential.
Back in 80 or 81 .. I rolled the score over 62 times and stopped right before the 63rd roll over. My eyes were burning so bad. That would be a score of 6,299,370. The highest score on Asteroids (Atari, 1979) is 41,838,740, achieved by John McAllister (USA), who played for 58 hours in an attempt verified by Twin Galaxies on 5 April 2010.
@@cooler1854 I had played Asteroids for about 2 years before that day. I used to play every day.. sometimes multiple times per day.... but it's been more than 30 years since I last seen one to play it.
I thought I hated video games . I do a lot of extream sports , this was the one game I liked because you. Could move any where , I want this guy to be my pilot!
@DeeJayWheels I was wondering what you meant by world record til I read your response on what a 5 ship record was. Back in the day this game was popular I was in a national tournament where I scored 25,000,000 + and was on the machine for a day and a half. I came in 3rd nationally. At the local shops I would get the score to be 99990 with one ship left then commit suicide by ship and die with the highest score. I sometimes would put ships all the way across coming out to the other side and then walk out of the parlor to the delight of the other kids who would have hours of free play.I would play the corners to kill the ships as my preferred method. I still love this game.
@@cooler1854 speaking for myself, I was dirty poor and a quarter had to go a long way. I think it took about a year to get really good where I could turn the machine over 3x without losing a ship once.
Hello Guy lining ships up. How did you learn to play flying up and down screen ? How long did it take too get good ? How often you practice ? Also In this video. Were you playing asteroids machine or mame machine ?
Great skills! You got out of some tight spots. I think shooting randomly at the small spaceships throws off your rhythm. Glad to see you stopped doing that after a while. I watched the whole damn video! Good job.
Nice! You should try your hand at my game Solaroids: Prologue on steam. It was made for the few that are able to master the art of combat with inertia!
So the old mame uses periods for bullets. Hard to see. The new mame uses a small diamond. Much easier to see. This is the first time i've seen bullets like this. Large lines with periods following behind (tracers). Where would i get this for mame? I bought Atari Arcade Hits in early 2000's. Was able to play forever using a game pad with rapid fire. My method was to ambush ships on the edges of screen. You can target him through the edge but he can't target you (fixed on asteroids deluxe). I never actually scored a million points cuz my hands got tired. So i quit around 300-400K. But i used a lot more than 5 ships. You only have to get slightly more than 10 flying saucers for every death and you can only bank 9 extra lives (revision 2). Havent played this for decades. So recently played on new mame with autofire and keyboard which is actually better than any gamepad even ones with backside buttons that i would use for thrust. I use the numpad arrows and set the up arrow as thrust. So even back in the day and esp now, i still cant even get 100K if i don't feel well. If you don't feel well, you won't play well. No junk food. Do some jogging. Have some herbs and stuff. Also this is the first time i've seen this on the move method. Actually i usually move a little whilst ambushing on the sides of screen but not always. Makes it a little harder for him to target you. 🙂
this game cost me a few hundred $ in quarters to get good. But it got to the point i only needed one . Best attempt was for the world highscore - about1980-81? I forget One quarter- Played to about 9 million in 15 hours, the world record was 11 million at the time. Should have started earlier that day :( But it would not have mattered, as somebody got 15 million in 20? something hours a month later, then a month after that some dude (probably on speed) got something like 26 or 28 million. I think somebody got 32 million in 45 hours playing it as the highest score, but iDK about that record. The tactic of killing the little ship with 1 or 2 rocks left, I called "cruising", should be able to mow that dude down 1st or 2nd salvo (which this guy does), not let him get halfway across the screen, but the game does get "hot" ;) :) at my best , I could beat this record, I forget what I could get using the "3 ship" rule, as I got good , something like 220K, usually 150-180K IIRC(though could have 80-90K games easy) , depends on how mad the game gets at you LOL this 5 ship idea i never heard of. This brings back memories I will say.
yeah I inserted a few quarters myself way back when. -The same guy (John McAllister) who broke my 5-ship record, with a score of 625,00+ a couple years ago, also owns the "marathon" record of 41 million+ www.twingalaxies.com/game/asteroids/arcade -I hope to start playing again soon and get my record back!!!
Asteroids all over me, don't know where to run, I'm somewhere between the moon and the sun I'm in the three ships and there's more on the way I'll be faced again, I can really play! Hyperspace, Push on the button and I'm back in the race, Hyperspace, Shootin' my rockets all over the place, I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again, Kickin' the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win, There's a ship on the rise and he's shootin' at me, I rotate my ship on the count of three I fire and shoot and blow him out of the sky Push on the buttons and wave bye-bye Hyperspace, Push on the button and I'm back in the race, Hyperspace, Shootin' my rockets all over the place, I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again, Gonna kick in the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win, Hyperspace, Push on the button and I'm back in the race, Hyperspace, Shootin' my rockets all over the place, I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again, Kickin' the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win, Hyperspace, Push on the button and I'm back in the race, Hyperspace, Shootin' my rockets all over the place, I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again, Gonna kick in the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win, Asteroids all over me, don't know where to run, I'm somewhere between the moon and the sun I'm in the three ships and there's more on the way I'm a space cadet, I really know how to play! Hyperspace, Push on the button and I'm back in the race, Hyperspace, Shootin' my rockets all over the place, I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again, Gonna kick in the thrust, I just gotta win, I just gotta win, Hyperspace, Push on the button, push on the button Hyperspace, Shootin', shootin' all over the place, I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again, Gonna kick in the thrust, I just gotta win! Hyperspace, Shootin', shootin', shootin', shootin' Hyperspace! I don't know where to run Hyperspace! Gonna kick in the thrust, I just gotta win! Hyperspace! (fade) - Buckner & García
@Michael Wright Great question. A 5 ship game means your game is over after you die 5 times. The extra ships that were accumulated for every 10,000 points scored, don't factor in.
Those original screens are so great to see in person. The way the lights actually glow and fade out is mesmerizing.
No doubt!!!
All hail hypno-cabinet
Yahhh, tried an emulator years ago, but it just couldn't capture the gem-like glow of the old vector screens... it's part of the experience.
I find the simplicity of some of these old arcade games very appealing.
amen! The modern games have entirely to many options and buttons. The graphics might be better but the gameplay isn't as fun.
@@DeeJayWheels We still get simple games to this day if you know where to look
I absolutely love this non-marathon format with a finite number of ships. Nice job.
Thank you!
The X-Rays from this screen make you glow after a while playing.
Kind of like Chevy Chase's character in Modern Problems! lol
Wow. This brings me back to 1980 in my college arcade. I used to use the same strategy of flying my ship vertical with 1 or 2 asteroids left. By constantly flying vertically it was harder for that tiny ship to destroy me.
Yes, it's surprising to me how difficult it seems for people to master that strategy. I can only guess it's because of the coordination it takes of using all buttons rather than a joystick.
I love this game. Your playing style is very similar to mine. If you have a nice kinda firing button you can kick major rocks 🪨 lol.
@@DeeJayWheels No surprisingly! By the time a new player is ready to learn to saucer hunt, they already know their way around the buttons. It's knowing how the screen wraps that makes saucer hunting so much easier. My first saucer hunt compared to my latest is night and day. I would only fire if the saucer was directly above me; but now I fire from anywhere because I can tell where to aim to hit it. The biggest step to mastery is simply learning how the game moves.
Rewatching today I learned I gotta use more trigger discipline. I noticed you only prefire when both your ship and asteroid are side by side or if you're firing over the asteroid, never into it while facing away; so thanks for that!
This was a good game, the record has since been beaten in 2018 and is now 625,340 points..
I was 12 when Asteroids made its debut. I remember the eye strain vividly but the painful wrists were epic. Approaching 60, my wrists hurt just watching this video.
Brings back wonderful childhood memories, you are a legend in my mind. 🙂
I just found out about Arcade 1 up machines and bought a partycade (tabletop) Asteroids that has Asteroids Deluxe and I'm having so much fun playing it. It's been like 35 years since I played it, so I'm rusty but still it brings you right back to those teen years. Also picked up a partycade version of Defender that has authentic controls, that one's even more fun to play.
Nice video. Back in the classic era of arcade gaming (early 80s) more than once I was able to exceed 100,000 (max score)on the first ship using the technique demonstrated in the video. I remember playing Asteroids so that the extra ships would stack up across the top of the screen which caused the game to slow way down making it even easier to play because it must redraw those ships and the game hardware was not optimized for that many objects to be on the screen. To make matters worse, Asteroids continues to add more ships into memory even though they are not displayed, and like many other arcade games of that era (Pacman, Donkey Kong, etc), the memory would become corrupted at some point. I am assuming that extra ships were limited to 256 (1 byte in memory) and once the number was exceeded, the number rolled over to become a negative number, and the game would crash causing a full reset of the game.
Thanks for trip down memory lane.... back in the day I used to line up those ships across the top of the screen as well. I didn't know there was a record for 5 ship high score... I might have been close to that score as well.
My record was actually broken earlier this year, but I will get it back! www.twingalaxies.com/game/asteroids/arcade/tournament/
trying to get better at Asteroids, this video helped me out quite a bit
Glad to hear it. Keep at it. It's all about anticipation and using your peripherals. Like anything else, the more you play the better feel you will have for the game.
DeeJayWheels and kick some butt too 😅👍
I love the sound on that spring action fire button! You can tell it’s gotten a lot of action
indeed it has lol!
My goodness! I'm suddenly ten years old again watching my friend play this in 7 Eleven!!
Great memories that last a lifetime! I was the same age when I would play at the deli near where I lived.
@@DeeJayWheels It was this game, Missile Command and Defender that everyone was good at except me lol! Give me some Ms Pac-Man and Star Castle and it's on!
I’m out here playing this every other day on my laptop and I love it. Love the fluidity, the simple graphics and elements, the escalation, the various strategies I can implement. Love the “machine gun” ability along with semi-auto. The random hyperspace gambles.
I would love to see a new version of this just, slightly updated - maybe multiplayer options (ie two rockets in one screen), handicapped levels or spaceship types available, slight graphics updates - still simple, but more fluid. Maybe something like moving black holes to avoid or else they spin you into hyperspace instead of doing it manually.
Game has so much potential.
Try Space Duel. It has multi player option and color /updated graphics. Blasteroids also....
Back in 80 or 81 .. I rolled the score over 62 times and stopped right before the 63rd roll over. My eyes were burning so bad. That would be a score of 6,299,370. The highest score on Asteroids (Atari, 1979) is 41,838,740, achieved by John McAllister (USA), who played for 58 hours in an attempt verified by Twin Galaxies on 5 April 2010.
How long did you take too get good ? How often did you play ?
@@cooler1854 I don't really remember how long it took to get that good, but I do remember I played every day. I loved that game.
@@cooler1854 I had played Asteroids for about 2 years before that day. I used to play every day.. sometimes multiple times per day.... but it's been more than 30 years since I last seen one to play it.
L.S.D. + This = Winning Combo ! Been here for 2 days now .... will it ever end? , hope not!
I thought I hated video games . I do a lot of extream sports , this was the one game I liked because you. Could move any where , I want this guy to be my pilot!
@DeeJayWheels I was wondering what you meant by world record til I read your response on what a 5 ship record was.
Back in the day this game was popular I was in a national tournament where I scored 25,000,000 + and was on the machine for a day and a half. I came in 3rd nationally.
At the local shops I would get the score to be 99990 with one ship left then commit suicide by ship and die with the highest score.
I sometimes would put ships all the way across coming out to the other side and then walk out of the parlor to the delight of the other kids who would have hours of free play.I would play the corners to kill the ships as my preferred method. I still love this game.
When life was simpler!
25 000000 how often did you take too get good ? How often did you practice ?
@@cooler1854 speaking for myself, I was dirty poor and a quarter had to go a long way.
I think it took about a year to get really good where I could turn the machine over 3x without losing a ship once.
Absolutely amazing gameplay, my hats off to you sir! Bravo!
why does this look insanely good but when i search for most 1979 asteroid games on youtube, the game looks like its from 1979
I love that Vetrex Ghosting effect.
Do you use double index and middle finger to fire?
Hello
Guy lining ships up. How did you learn to play flying up and down screen ? How long did it take too get good ? How often you practice ? Also
In this video. Were you playing asteroids machine or mame machine ?
Great skills! You got out of some tight spots.
I think shooting randomly at the small spaceships throws off your rhythm. Glad to see you stopped doing that after a while.
I watched the whole damn video! Good job.
Thank You!
Watched it all aswell! In the process of programming this game for myself!
First: respect for this dude.
Second: you know he's got a happy wife or girlfriend with those... skills
LMAO!!! Thank you
When i learn c++ im gonna try to make this game
I won a Asteroids cab in a tournament back in the 80’s. I wished I’d of kept it! Nice job!
Thanks Burt!
Nice! You should try your hand at my game Solaroids: Prologue on steam. It was made for the few that are able to master the art of combat with inertia!
It would be cool to see how you do!
What the name this console?
In 1983 I broke World Record. I played 39!hours and scored 18,000,000 points
I quit with approx 250?ships left in the computer. I was a legend
wowowowow
How maddening to lay out a perfect spread and still somehow that saucer prick flies through the gaps.
Tell me about it! Lol
Vector graphics are great but asteroids is so good regardless of vectors
True indeed!
WOW
Goddamn.... I really miss vector monitors. So Vibrant!
So the old mame uses periods for bullets. Hard to see. The new mame uses a small diamond. Much easier to see. This is the first time i've seen bullets like this. Large lines with periods following behind (tracers). Where would i get this for mame? I bought Atari Arcade Hits in early 2000's. Was able to play forever using a game pad with rapid fire. My method was to ambush ships on the edges of screen. You can target him through the edge but he can't target you (fixed on asteroids deluxe). I never actually scored a million points cuz my hands got tired. So i quit around 300-400K. But i used a lot more than 5 ships. You only have to get slightly more than 10 flying saucers for every death and you can only bank 9 extra lives (revision 2). Havent played this for decades. So recently played on new mame with autofire and keyboard which is actually better than any gamepad even ones with backside buttons that i would use for thrust. I use the numpad arrows and set the up arrow as thrust. So even back in the day and esp now, i still cant even get 100K if i don't feel well. If you don't feel well, you won't play well. No junk food. Do some jogging. Have some herbs and stuff. Also this is the first time i've seen this on the move method. Actually i usually move a little whilst ambushing on the sides of screen but not always. Makes it a little harder for him to target you. 🙂
What kind of TV is that?
It's the original vector monitor inside the arcade game.
Today's kid cant hold hang with this
Nicee
this game cost me a few hundred $ in quarters to get good. But it got to the point i only needed one . Best attempt was for the world highscore - about1980-81? I forget
One quarter- Played to about 9 million in 15 hours, the world record was 11 million at the time.
Should have started earlier that day :(
But it would not have mattered, as somebody got 15 million in 20? something hours a month later,
then a month after that some dude (probably on speed) got something like 26 or 28 million. I think somebody got 32 million in 45 hours playing it as the highest score, but iDK about that record.
The tactic of killing the little ship with 1 or 2 rocks left, I called "cruising", should be able to mow that dude down 1st or 2nd salvo (which this guy does), not let him get halfway across the screen, but the game does get "hot" ;) :)
at my best , I could beat this record, I forget what I could get using the "3 ship" rule, as I got good , something like 220K, usually 150-180K IIRC(though could have 80-90K games easy) , depends on how mad the game gets at you LOL
this 5 ship idea i never heard of.
This brings back memories I will say.
yeah I inserted a few quarters myself way back when.
-The same guy (John McAllister) who broke my 5-ship record, with a score of 625,00+ a couple years ago, also owns the "marathon" record of 41 million+ www.twingalaxies.com/game/asteroids/arcade
-I hope to start playing again soon and get my record back!!!
ah, yes, takes me back to the seventies and eighties. seems you could've played it till you got tired. my highest was maybe 16k.
fuck those effects they look crisp
Let us play "Space War" Dude . LOL
I loved the cabinet and the overall mjestic look, but I found the game very boring.
Asteroids all over me, don't know where to run,
I'm somewhere between the moon and the sun
I'm in the three ships and there's more on the way
I'll be faced again, I can really play!
Hyperspace,
Push on the button and I'm back in the race,
Hyperspace,
Shootin' my rockets all over the place,
I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again,
Kickin' the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win,
There's a ship on the rise and he's shootin' at me,
I rotate my ship on the count of three
I fire and shoot and blow him out of the sky
Push on the buttons and wave bye-bye
Hyperspace,
Push on the button and I'm back in the race,
Hyperspace,
Shootin' my rockets all over the place,
I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again,
Gonna kick in the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win,
Hyperspace,
Push on the button and I'm back in the race,
Hyperspace,
Shootin' my rockets all over the place,
I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again,
Kickin' the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win,
Hyperspace,
Push on the button and I'm back in the race,
Hyperspace,
Shootin' my rockets all over the place,
I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again,
Gonna kick in the thrust, 'cause I just gotta win, I just gotta win,
Asteroids all over me, don't know where to run,
I'm somewhere between the moon and the sun
I'm in the three ships and there's more on the way
I'm a space cadet, I really know how to play!
Hyperspace,
Push on the button and I'm back in the race,
Hyperspace,
Shootin' my rockets all over the place,
I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again,
Gonna kick in the thrust, I just gotta win, I just gotta win,
Hyperspace,
Push on the button, push on the button
Hyperspace,
Shootin', shootin' all over the place,
I'm invisible now, but I'll be back again,
Gonna kick in the thrust, I just gotta win!
Hyperspace,
Shootin', shootin', shootin', shootin'
Hyperspace!
I don't know where to run
Hyperspace!
Gonna kick in the thrust, I just gotta win!
Hyperspace!
(fade)
- Buckner & García
I usually stay in one place until a little asteroid gets near me
If it is a 5 ship works record then how come ships are lined up across ?
@Michael Wright Great question. A 5 ship game means your game is over after you die 5 times. The extra ships that were accumulated for every 10,000 points scored, don't factor in.
To guy playing asteroids.
There's no way yoir score is 299,000 something you have to many ships lined up.
What score did you actually get?
im 1 000 0000 punktów w 4 godziny ONZ mój nick
Me: I can beat that
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