# What was this game?  Like multiplayer Asteroids

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 3, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-like-multiplayer-asteroids/495198 "2009-05-03T19:12:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-like-multiplayer-asteroids/495198/1 "2009-05-03T19:12:25Z")

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I saw someone playing a game on their PC in summer 2003. He was flying a little triangle ship around. It looked like maybe a CtF type of game? There were other ships (I’m pretty sure he said it was an online multiplayer game), stuff to crash into…I don’t really remember what else. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Commander\_Keen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Commander\_Keen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Keen)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-like-multiplayer-asteroids/495198/2 "2009-05-03T19:55:31Z")

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[XPilot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpilot)?

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**Author:** ![Discipline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Discipline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Discipline)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-like-multiplayer-asteroids/495198/3 "2009-05-03T23:22:56Z")

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[Subspace?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubSpace_(computer_game))

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**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-like-multiplayer-asteroids/495198/4 "2009-05-04T01:06:09Z")

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Hmm, might have been XPilot. I’ll check them both out. 🙂

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-like-multiplayer-asteroids/495198/5 "2009-05-04T04:17:39Z")

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Sounds like Subspace to me. I played it for awhile, until I got sick of the non-configurable keys, something which has been standard on every other MMO action game since (and some before).