How to Play
Use the arrow keys to move around and align your ship so you can obliterate the asteroids. Pressing the down key puts you into hyperspeed which is useful for avoiding near-death encounters. Movement is an art in Asteroids as you balance your boosters and breaks to maneuver tactically around the deadly space obstacles.
As well as avoiding killer space rocks, there’s the occasional flying saucer that fires indiscriminately in your general direction. It’s best to move quickly and fire fast to destroy these ships so you don’t get annihilated by their chaotic firing patterns.
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Release Date
February 2021 (HTML5)Developer
Atari developed the original Asteroids game.Platform
Web browser (desktop and mobile)Walkthrough
Controls
- W or up arrow to accelerate
- AD or left and right arrows to steer
- S or down arrow to use hyperspace
- Space bar to shoot
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