# Astroids, the computer game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 3, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175 "2001-01-03T01:51:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175/1 "2001-01-03T01:51:06Z")

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Does anyone have or remember this game? It has a little spaceship with which you blast away increasingly small astroids. It came on my computer.  
What are your High scores? Mine is over 42,000 (actually thats my boyfriend’s, mine is 28000)  
Anyone beat that?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175/2 "2001-01-03T02:17:34Z")

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I’ve played the Microsoft Arcade version and have a current score of 99,100. The highest possible score without rolling the counter over is 99,990. I’ve hit that a couple of times on the original stand-up version.

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**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175/3 "2001-01-03T02:48:02Z")

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I had this game for Microsoft Arcade, but I don’t remember the highest score I got. It was nowhere near 42,000 though…

**SHAMELESS PLUG TIME!!!**

[Guggoids!!! Click here!!!](http://www.stas.net/kinkajoy/) It’s my Asteroids clone! Okay, it’s not technically complete, and probably never will be. And the gameplay and graphics are…crap. But if you want to play an old-style game, get Guggoids!!!

**(end shameless plug)**

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175/4 "2001-01-03T19:25:22Z")

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Remember it? I started my entire career in Computer Science because of it.

Never was very good at the game, though. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175/5 "2001-01-03T20:27:56Z")

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**KJ** , do you have the source for Guggoids lying around? What libraries did you use?  
Have you ever played Maelstrom?

> **[Maelstrom](http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/maelstrom/)**
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> Excellent 'Asteroids' type game with sound, 3D objects, and more

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**Author:** ![diamud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@diamud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diamud)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astroids-the-computer-game/48175/6 "2001-01-03T20:39:19Z")

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It was a good game, but the one that sucked my allowance away was Star Castle, a truly great game (with colored transparencies stuck to the glass itself to add color to the game, oh yea!)