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... Asteroids had been the brainchild of an Atari engineer named Lyle Rains . Although Rains had been with Atari's coin - op division since 1973 , through much of 1978 he had been working on ... asteroids and spaceship to. 41 1979 Atari ...
... Asteroids had been the brainchild of an Atari engineer named Lyle Rains . Although Rains had been with Atari's coin - op division since 1973 , through much of 1978 he had been working on ... asteroids and spaceship to. 41 1979 Atari ...
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The Fall & Rise of Videogames Leonard Herman. that allowed the on - screen asteroids and spaceship to appear very detailed . Asteroids replaced Space Invaders as the king of the arcades . It also introduced something new to arcade games ...
The Fall & Rise of Videogames Leonard Herman. that allowed the on - screen asteroids and spaceship to appear very detailed . Asteroids replaced Space Invaders as the king of the arcades . It also introduced something new to arcade games ...
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... Asteroids to the VCS , its designers quickly tangled with the limits of the machine . Asteroids was an important title for Atari since Activision began taking away some of its business . This was the top selling arcade game of all time ...
... Asteroids to the VCS , its designers quickly tangled with the limits of the machine . Asteroids was an important title for Atari since Activision began taking away some of its business . This was the top selling arcade game of all time ...
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