I must not remember correctly but I didn’t think it was possible to “beat” asteroids. I thought it just went on forever…like space… I remember playing one game for hours and hours.
The old-school term for that was “flipping” a game. Super Mario Brothers and Zelda and the NES era more generally really brought in the concept of “beating” games.
one of the levels, the ships special is a 180° rotation when you pull back on the joystick.
It’s pretty easy to flip the game score with the joystick if you use that level and just don’t move from the middle, you never have to rotate very far if you just spin and flip the ship.
Does the VCS even have a dial controller as an option? Obviously the 2600 original did, but I almost backed the VCS and don’t remember anything other than the paddle and a modern style controller as options.
According to promotional material, the 2021 VCS “Classic Controller” has a twistable joystick for paddle controller functionality. “Paddle” is the usual term for the rotary analog controller, which I think is what is meant by “dial controller”
That’s the wrong controller for that game. The way to go is with the dial controller.
SOURCE: I beat it on my 2600 as a kid.
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I must not remember correctly but I didn’t think it was possible to “beat” asteroids. I thought it just went on forever…like space… I remember playing one game for hours and hours.
Must be in a mode or difficulty I didn’t play.
It has a maximum score before it restarts the count. I can’t remember what that was.
The old-school term for that was “flipping” a game. Super Mario Brothers and Zelda and the NES era more generally really brought in the concept of “beating” games.
one of the levels, the ships special is a 180° rotation when you pull back on the joystick.
It’s pretty easy to flip the game score with the joystick if you use that level and just don’t move from the middle, you never have to rotate very far if you just spin and flip the ship.
Does the VCS even have a dial controller as an option? Obviously the 2600 original did, but I almost backed the VCS and don’t remember anything other than the paddle and a modern style controller as options.
According to promotional material, the 2021 VCS “Classic Controller” has a twistable joystick for paddle controller functionality. “Paddle” is the usual term for the rotary analog controller, which I think is what is meant by “dial controller”
How did that work? The dial was analog left right and a button.
The thrust on asteroids was digital- on or off forward, left, right and back on the joystick was hyperspace jump.
You couldn’t move or hyper jump if you used the dial.
I don’t think Asteroids was a paddle game at all.
It wasn’t but you could sort of play some joystick games with the paddle.