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Elite (computer Game) Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ DirtyArt.com Elite is a seminal space trading computer game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers and subsequently ported to many others. Elite's open ended game model, advanced game engine and revolutionary 3D graphics ensured that it was ported to virtually every home computer system of the day, and earned it a place as a classic and a genre maker in gaming history. Elite was one of the first home computer games to utilise wireframe 3D graphics. dirtyart.com /encyclopedia/Elite_(computer_game)   (1766 words)

SimCity Essay The result, in 1962, was the collaborative development of the first computer game: Spacewar, a basic version of what would become the Asteroids arcade game, played on a $120,000 DEC PDP-1. Playing games on computers was first made possible by the introduction of minicomputers in the late 1950s. The world of computer games today ranges from arcade-style games emphasizing hand-eye coordination, to role-playing games adding sound and video to the Adventure formula, to simulation games in which players oversee the growth and development of systems ranging from cities to galaxies to alternate life-forms. www.duke.edu /~tlove/simcity.htm   (1766 words)

Starscape (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Most of the game time is spent in a top-down view as the player's ship fights off attackers and collects resources from asteroids and from some of the destroyed enemy vessels. Starscape is a 2D space combat shoot 'em up game developed by Moonpod games and published in 2003 as shareware. Starscape also features a plotless skirmish mode and a difficulty level where save games are automatically updated to reflect the loss of ships. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Starscape   (1177 words)

ga_03 This game is similar to the old Asteroids game. Tank is a two-player tank game, or you can play the computer. Game 1 (displayed) requires you to drop the ball into the funnel while avoiding the floating donut that steals your points away, Game 2 uses alternating funnels, and Game 3 requires you to shoot the ball through two donuts. cd.textfiles.com /pslmonthly25/reviews/ga_03   (8159 words)

computer games p1 Galaforce Worlds is a challenging space game packed with impressive features and thrilling edge-of-your-seat action.Compare this game with any other space action game: 4 alien worlds comprising 66 increasingly difficult stages, including homing missiles and asteroids zones. Repton 2 builds upon the foundations of Repton 1 by including new game characters and additional objectives. Solid Spheres Deluxe is a new upgraded version of the original game that was voted the Best Action/Arcade Game in the Shareware Industry Awards 2003 against stiff competition including Quake 3 Arena. www.alphastandard.net /computer_games_p1.htm   (8159 words)

Elite (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The game world no longer seems to be centered around the player; freighter fleets with escorts go about their own business, pirate formations patrol lawless systems looking for cargo to loot and mining ships can often be found breaking up asteroids for their mineral content. Elite is a seminal space trading computer game, originally published by Acornsoft in 1984 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers and subsequently ported to many others. Both games had many bugs, First Encounters in particular, due apparently to being published in an incomplete state, and First Encounters had to be extensively patched; this became the subject of a three-year lawsuit between the publisher- Gametek- and Braben. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elite_(computer_game)   (1863 words)

SimCity Essay The result, in 1962, was the collaborative development of the first computer game: Spacewar, a basic version of what would become the Asteroids arcade game, played on a $120,000 DEC PDP-1. The world of computer games today ranges from arcade-style games emphasizing hand-eye coordination, to role-playing games adding sound and video to the Adventure formula, to simulation games in which players oversee the growth and development of systems ranging from cities to galaxies to alternate life-forms. Computer simulations bring the tools of narrative to mapmaking, allowing the individual not simply to observe structures, but to become experientially immersed in their logic. www.duke.edu /~tlove/simcity.htm   (5099 words)

Locus Online: Lucius Cook on Games Computer games had arrived at last, but in the process had lost their genre roots; Doom's forebears weren't Smith or Tolkien, but Aliens and Evil Dead, and the games that followed in its wake, like Duke Nukem, Quake, and Unreal, were less concerned with storytelling than arresting visuals. Science fiction in electronic games is nothing new; many of the arcade games of the medium's "Golden Age" (1977-84), such as Space Invaders, Asteroids, Defender, and Missile Command, utilize familiar scenarios such as alien invasions or global thermonuclear war as a backdrop. As the 1980s wore on, computer games became larger and more sophisticated, thanks to the increased processing power of the IBM PC and its abundant and inexpensive clones. www.locusmag.com /2004/Reviews/12_Cook_On_Gaming.html   (5099 words)

QUESTION OF THE MONTH: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE GAME...AND WHY? Sinistar was the only game in which the computer transcended being a mindless controller of asteroids and abstract spaceships and became a real, live, frothing-at-the-mouth opponent that you had a personal stake in defeating. The first game I played on a computer. Games that come close are: X-Wing, Red Baron, F-19, Gunship 2000, Rise of the Dragon, Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Super War DOS V (A Chinese translated Japanese modern war game, I don't think you know it.), and of course the all time classic: TETRIS. www.ibiblio.org /GameBytes/issue19/letters/best.html   (2581 words)

News Story: Atari Cosmos: Hand-held console of the future. Hand-held, ebay, nintendo ds, sony psp, games news, gaming news, games, news, gamers news, gaming headlines, computer game news, game and news, video game news Basically it let you play games like asteroids in front of one of those green holograph things you get in packs of Shreddies. Hand-held, ebay, nintendo ds, sony psp, games news, gaming news, games, news, gamers news, gaming headlines, computer game news, game and news, video game news The Sony PSP will make home console gaming portable and be just about the sexiest gadget of all time, while the Nintendo DS looks likely to rejuvinate the industry by offering a host of ingenius features on its two screens, one of which is touch sensitive; voice recognition, and wireless 'Pictochat' messages. specialreserve.co.uk /n_3384-news.html   (2581 words)

Escape Velocity for PC video game review and cheats The premise of the game is nothing new: there have always been space-trading games, Asteroids-style shoot-'em-ups, and strategic and tactical simulations. The final strength of the game is that Matt Burch, the game designer and developer, has released the resource code for public consumption. Many commercial games -- Buried in Time or The Dark Eye -- don't allow you the luxury of playing the game the way you want to play it; they have very specific objectives you must achieve in order to "finish" the game. www.gamezilla.com /reviews/e/ev.asp   (1257 words)

Review: Wing Commander Wing Commander is the motion picture debut of director Chris Roberts (who has helmed video segments for episodes of the computer game), and it's not a promising start. The visuals, which consist primarily of rotating asteroids and spaceships shooting at each other, are consistently more interesting than any of the characters. The plot has all the depth and originality of a video game without the fun of the interactivity (it shouldn't come as a surprise, therefore, to learn that it's based on a popular title). movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/w/wing_commander.html   (772 words)

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Spike's Big Vectrex Page - Main Emulators are computer programs that runs the original program code from an arcade machine, home video game, or computer. With a little unplugging and replugging classic arcade games like Tempest, Asteroids, and the Sega vector games can be played on a Vectrex monitor. It even achieved full color/true 3D before it was sucked into the great video game crash of the 80's, and now, many years later, Narrow Escape has become the first emulated game in history to utilize blue/red glasses for true 3D (the MESS emulator has since tackled the other 2 3D games). www.classicgaming.com /vectrex/main.htm   (3788 words)

SimCity Essay The result, in 1962, was the collaborative development of the first computer game: Spacewar, a basic version of what would become the Asteroids arcade game, played on a $120,000 DEC PDP-1. Computer game development companies, the argument goes, are "The New Hollywood."2 This analogy has its roots in the changing economics of entertainment production. The difference between the New Hollywood and the Old, according to the analogy, is that computer games are "interactive cinema," in which the game player takes on the role of the protagonist. www.duke.edu /~tlove/simcity.htm   (3788 words)

bhlegend dot com the bosnian classic games archive In fact, 19 percent of computer and console gamers are older than 50, according to the Entertainment Software Association, the industry's trade group. She's been playing since the early years of Pogo, Asteroids and Space Invaders, when she was in a bowling league and spent countless coins hitting arcade games in the bowling alleys. Even with her hearing aids, she turns up the volume on games until, one of her grandkids says, "her room literally starts to shake." Her treasured strategy guides - the Cliffs Notes of tough-to-beat games - are tucked next to her equally treasured cookbooks. www.bhlegend.com   (1162 words)

The Greatest Games of All Time - GameSpot - GameSpot Star Control II is easily one of my all-time favorite computer games, and one of those games that makes me feel privileged having played it--I felt like I'd dug up a chest full of gold doubloons when I discovered that game, it was so unbelievably good. Featuring 14 inventive and unique ships and an intuitive control scheme reminiscent of Asteroids, the combat in Star Control II was highly entertaining against the challenging computer and especially against a friend. The 18 different races in Star Control II were all distinctively different, and none of them fit the generic science-fiction stereotypes that have always been so common in games. www.gamespot.com /gamespot/features/all/greatestgames/starcon2.html   (1162 words)

Arcade games Asteroids was the first of several games to use Ataris Quadra-Scan vector-refresh system (although a raster-based full-color version was developed for the Atari 2600 home video game system). The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (1162 words)

Arcade games Asteroids was the first of several games to use Ataris Quadra-Scan vector-refresh system (although a raster-based full-color version was developed for the Atari 2600 home video game system). The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Arcade games The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. of the most successful arcade games, Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games, According to KLOV the 7 most popular game of all times Asteroids is a popular vector graphics video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Games. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Arcade games of the most successful arcade games, Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games, According to KLOV the 7 most popular game of all times Asteroids is a popular vector graphics video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Games. The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Arcade games The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. of the most successful arcade games, Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games, According to KLOV the 7 most popular game of all times Asteroids is a popular vector graphics video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Games. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Arcade games The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. of the most successful arcade games, Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games, According to KLOV the 7 most popular game of all times Asteroids is a popular vector graphics video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Games. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Arcade games The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. of the most successful arcade games, Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games, According to KLOV the 7 most popular game of all times Asteroids is a popular vector graphics video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Games. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Arcade games of the most successful arcade games, Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games, According to KLOV the 7 most popular game of all times Asteroids is a popular vector graphics video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Games. The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Arcade games of the most successful arcade games, Developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games, According to KLOV the 7 most popular game of all times Asteroids is a popular vector graphics video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Games. The object of the game is for the player to shoot and destroy asteroids without being hit by the fragments. The game was in itself based on the black-and-white raster game, Computer Space. read-and-go.hopto.org /Arcade-games   (534 words)

Encyclopedia: Stardust (game) The game is essentially an Asteroids clone with modern enhancements, such as power-ups, shields, a high-energy techno module soundtrack, vivid use of colours and the occasional tunnel section. Stardust is a shoot-em-up computer game for the Amiga 500, released by the Finnish company Bloodhouse in 1993. A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stardust-(game)   (918 words)

Amiga Source Author of games MineRunner - Load Runner clone, Poweroids - Asteroids clone, Star Defender - Defender/Stargate clone, Zerberk - Bezerk clone, Phone Wizard - Turns your computer into a phone answer machine. Although, despite our relative youth, we are promising some of the best computer games that you will see. Tales of Tamar will be a pure Internet/Mailboxgame for Amiga Computer, adaptions for Windows95/98/2000/ME/XP and Atari, MacPPC, Java are currently under development and tests. cciinter.net /users/amigasource/ml/11.htm   (918 words)

Atari Super Pong Computer Space proved too complicated to play for a public who had no experience with video games. Computer Space was inspired by the first action computer game, PDP-11 Space War. Direct ancestors of Computer Space include Cinematronics Space War, Atari Asteroids, Atari Space Duel, Atari Gravitar, Midway Omega Race, and a host of other imitators. www.computercloset.org /ComputerSpace.htm   (269 words)

ech The tanks were in a very similar vein to Asteroids but it was a much simpler game. I think it predated arcade games like asteroids. Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:34:39 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: edinburgh-computer-history@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ed-comp-hist] Next task... history.dcs.ed.ac.uk /mailinglist/ech   (269 words)

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