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Tater 🥔Ⓜ️
@tatertots
Did you know "Asteroids" was one of the first coin-operated video games to allow players to add their three letter initials to a list of high scores!? ✨ 👨🚀 ✨ In November 1979, Atari released the arcade game, ‘Asteroids’! It was inspired by the pioneering mainframe computer game Spacewar (1962) and the first arcade video game, Nutting Associates’ Computer Space (1971). In these earlier games players controlled spaceships engaged in missile combat. In Asteroids, players controlled a triangular ship floating in the middle of a moving minefield of space rocks. 💫 🌌 ☄️ 🎇 ✨ Atari sold more than 70,000 units of the game, earning the company an estimated $150 million and making it their best-selling arcade game of all time. Soon, Asteroids supplanted Space Invaders at many arcades and street locations while game operators collected an estimated $500 million in quarters.
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Yeah 🕹️ 👾 , even nowadays, the whole ranking idea is one of the biggest things driving competitiveness. Really cool, Tater!! Thanks for sharing this with us!
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Tater 🥔Ⓜ️
@tatertots
Soo cool, totally changed the game!! My pleasure OFF, happy you liked it! 🕹️ 🤼 🕹️
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