3D Asteroids

The Good
You are trying to survive an asteroid field, using four keys on the Atom keyboard (<, >, A, Q) to navigate through it. You lose if any one of them stays in the center of the screen and gets larger, and when it’s game over, the game will tell you how long you survived (about 15-20 is required to get through the asteroid field).

The asteroids look fantastic; they are not made up of basic circles that look jagged. It really shows you what the Atom can do if developers such as Program Power exploit the graphic capabilities of the machine.

The Bad
There is hardly any sound; only a beep is heard on the game over screen. Also, the game didn’t hold my attention for very long.

The Bottom Line
3D Asteroids is an original game when it was released in the early Eighties, and a disappointing one at that. The asteroids themselves look fantastic, but that’s about it. There is no sound, and no excuse to continue playing if you lose. This is a game that you would have a few goes of and then stop playing.