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Game Info
- Platform
- Game Boy Color
- Genres
- Shoot 'em Up
- Player Perspective
- Top-down
- Developers
- Syrox Developments
- Publishers
- Activision
- Release date
- December 31, 1999
Summary
Asteroids on Game Boy Color takes the 1998 PlayStation 3D remake and strips it back to a crisp 2‑D experience that feels much closer to the arcade classic. The core loop is unchanged: you pilot a triangular ship that rotates, thrusts, and can jump to random coordinates with hyperspace, while the screen wraps around both axes. Asteroids shatter into faster, smaller fragments and two types of saucers appear, the small one becoming eerily accurate as your score climbs. What sets this handheld version apart are the five new zones, each offering fifteen levels packed with fresh hazards like regenerating crystal asteroids, indestructible rocks, mild black holes and gas‑emitting stars, plus three selectable ships and a handful of power‑ups to collect. The game rewards skill with extra lives every ten thousand points, and the frantic, vector‑inspired action translates surprisingly well to the Game Boy Color’s palette, delivering a nostalgic yet expanded take on the original shooter.
Storyline
In Asteroids for the Game Boy Color you play as an employee of the Astro‑Mining Corporation, tasked with clearing a designated sector of space. The mission spans five zones, each with its own background and occasional special features, and every zone contains fifteen levels. Besides the classic rocks, you’ll encounter mined asteroids that explode on impact, indestructible ones, fireball comets, crystal asteroids that regenerate, alien‑egg asteroids that hatch deadly space‑worms, and ancient energy asteroids that fire back. A variety of foes—standard and super saucers, asteroid tugs, fuel transports, hexes, nuke drivers, and Vulturoids—add extra danger as you work to keep the sector safe.
Edited by Maya Carter
Multiplayer
- Game modes
- Single
Alternative Titles
- Asteroids Remake GBC Alternative
External Links
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