Vintage Atari Asteroid Video Arcade Game
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**No Shipping - Pick Up or Third Party Transport Only** Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade video game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc.] The player controls a single spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy the asteroids and saucers, while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire. The game becomes harder as the number of asteroids increases. Overall Good+ condition. Bright screen, controls and scores well, cabinet has expected wear with some vinyl loss to the control panel surface.. VG cabinet side graphics. Coin mechs intact, currently on free play. No lock in door. Measures 72" tall, 25.5" wide, 21.5" deep. No shipping on this item. Pickup or 3rd party transport only. Asteroids was immediately successful upon release. It displaced Space Invaders by popularity in the United States and became Atari's best selling arcade game of all time, with over 70,000 units sold.[14][22] Atari earned an estimated $150 million in sales from the game, and arcade operators earned a further $500 million from coin drops
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Vintage Atari Asteroid Video Arcade Game
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