Eliminating UFOs can yield temporary perks like three-way firing, shielding, or even a powerful laser than sear through a cluster of threats after a brief charging period.
In keeping with the Nickervision formula, there’s also an ample number of power-ups. While the original game let your shots wraparound the screen, here the range of your gun has been extended. Rotation is mapped to the analog stick, while auto-fire provides finger fatigue and probably keeps your Switch’s ‘A’ button from becoming prematurely slack. The original arcade machine used a somewhat unwieldly five-button control scheme to rotate your ship, activate your thrusters, shoot, and randomly reposition your ship.īut Asteroids Recharged is far friendlier. A dependable strategy is targeting and eliminating the smallest rocks, otherwise the screen becomes chaotic jumble of perilous objects. Larger rocks separating into medium ones, and medium ones split into two smaller ones. In keeping with tradition, shooting an asteroid break it apart. As such, you’ll probably want to keep your spaceship around the center of the screen to make threat assessment easier. Like the original, anything that ventures off one side of the screen appears on the opposite side.
Heading into the game’s Arcade Mode places players in a recognizable context, where their ship is situated in a field of shifting space rocks. Overdue for an energizing update, 1979’s Asteroids is the latest game to receive a renovation- and it’s one of Nickervision’s best efforts. Unlike previous reboots, Nickervision have largely preserved the play of the original games, while adding a smattering of contemporary conveniences like weapon power-ups. So far, the results have been positive, with Missile Command, Centipede, and Black Widow all receiving a modernization across the Recharged series. The sole glimmer of hope has been the company permitting Nickervision Studios, the indie developer behind Ding Dong XL, Orbt XL, and Bit Blaster XL to reboot a number of their key properties. Modernizations of Haunted House, Star Raiders, Yars’ Revenge, and Star Raiders are best left forgotten, with each digressing from the simple enjoyment of their source material.Īs a brand, Atari is a shadow of its former self, with ambitions scattered across a hotel chain, the blockchain, and a console that lacks direction. But too often, the results fall closer to the disappointing quartet of Atari remakes released a decade ago. Sure, there’s the occasional outlier, with Llamasoft’s handing of Tempest 4000 building on the strengths of its source material. When a remake of a beloved Atari classic is announced, disappointment all too often follows. Availability: eShop and other digital marketplaces
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