Asteroids Deluxe and Pitfall head to Xbox Live this week

Asteroids Deluxe 2 screens

Concluding week, Centipede - a very nice arcade port and Game Room title - striking Xbox Live. This calendar week, Microsoft follows upwardly with 2 more Game Room games: Asteroids Deluxe and Pitfall.

Asteroids Deluxe, like Centipede, is an arcade game that Atari published in 1980. Players pilot a ship through an asteroid field, blasting both asteroids and aliens. The arcade version of Asteroids Deluxe is unique for a couple of reasons. Showtime, it featured vector graphics (instead of traditional sprites, everything is composed of lines) that were tinted blue by a transparent overlay. Behind the vector graphics, a printed properties added a bit more than color. 2d, different most arcade games, Asteroids Palatial did not apply a joystick for movement. Instead, individual buttons turned the transport left or correct and cause it to accelerate. This control mode should translate well to Windows Phone, though bear upon screen buttons will never provide the tactile feedback of real ones.

Pitfall

Pitfall is actually an Atari 2600 game, not an arcade game. Activision's bestseller featured multicolored, not-flickering sprites, a first for its habitation platform. Donkey Kong may be the first true platform game, merely Pitfall pioneered many platform elements. Instead of being confined to a unmarried screen, the game's star, Pitfall Harry explored a level consisting of 256 different screens. The objective is to find 32 lost treasures within twenty minutes. Pitfall'south unproblematic controls (run left, correct, and bound) are a great friction match for mobile gaming.

Equally Game Room titles, both games volition feature 3D arcade cabinet recreations (Pitfall has an Atari 2600 sitting on an arcade cabinet), historical data and detailed instructions, friends and global leaderboards, and 10 Achievements.

Asteroids Palatial and Pitfall will debut on Wednesday, April 20^thursdayfor $ii.99 (12 quarters) a piece.

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