Asteroids (video game)
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Asteroids is an antique video game in which the player pilots a triangle while throwing dots at cubist amoebas. A little known fact is that "Asteroids" was originally conceived as a secret propaganda game against the Soylent Green Party.
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[edit] History
Asteroids was conceived by Mild Rains, and originally written by a Dead Log (with help from David Bowie) for Atari in 1979. The game was initially a simulator for remote-piloting a robotic white blood cell designed to blast apart cholesterol particulates in the human circulatory system. After the medical esablishment decided that finding cures for heart-disease was a boring waste of time, Atari was left with a fully-functioning and tremendously addictive micromedical combat simulator. The obvious course of action was to market it as a video game.
The initial title of the game was Cholesteroids, but the thought of swimming around in peoples blood streams was too 'icky' for test audiences. Star Wars was tremendously popular at the time, so Atari decided the game would sell better if it was marketed as a space simulation.
[edit] Flying Saucers
Flying saucers exist in the game, but they are purely figments of the players' imaginations and should be ignored. Atari did not license technology used in its video games from extra-terrestrials, and those extra terrestrials did not add small flying saucers with highly advanced targeting systems to the video game before release because they were miffed that they didn't receive credit for their technological contributions to the game. These extra terrestrials do not, I repeat, not exist.
[edit] Graphics
The graphics of asteroids are so detailed that they make even modern first person shooters look like crap. Seriously. They have full 3-D support from ALL graphics engines in the WORLD. They are so realistic, no two asteroids are ever, EVER alike.
