week 5

Student Name Federico DeJesus

Today’s Date March 2, 2010

Game Title Examined Asteroids

Year of Publication 1979

Game Publisher Atari Inc.

Game Developer  Atari Inc.

1 - What is the game genre (e.g. shoot-em-up, racing, sports, puzzle, MMORPG, ‘sandbox’, music sequence following game (e.g. DDR, guitar hero)

Space shoot-em-up

2 -What is the type of game ‘world’ or environment (e.g. flat environment, puzzle/maze space, 3D world?)
small black area that loops around when you get from one end of the screen to another

3 - What is the perspective taken by player (e.g first person, third person perspective, top down, isometric) in relation to main player controlled character.

Top view perspective

4 - What is the actual gameplay – what does the player have to do?

Shoot at rocks that blows up in to pieces which you have to destroy completely until there no more

5 - Is the gameplay intuitive? (i.e. is it easy to understand what to do without instructions?) describe.

Easy to play, with 4 directional buttons and on fire button to use

6 - Is the gameplay patterned (game does the same thing over & over) or is it random (happens differently every time?)

It has the same pattern over and over, after you cleared out all of the asteroids more will come

7 - What does the type of graphic approach used as well as the audio tell you about the limits of the technology at the time the game was published?

It was a very limited graphics as it only has black screen and white outline of the objects around you. It was one of the very first arcade game that came out at that time


8 - Describe your views about the game from the point of view of

1. ease of play, the controls are easy to use and understand and theres no other objective other than to destroy the asteroids

2. Enjoyability, the enjoyability is fair and would keep me entertained for a few hours but as I play it more and more it becomes repetitive

c) level of engagement/immersion,  not really much to go by on engagement or immersion as the screen is just black with white outlines

9 - Had you played this game prior to this time? If so, when?

I have play something similar to this but for me to play it in an actual arcade, I have never played it at all

10 - what does playing the game remind you of in terms of other games/media?

It reminds me of how limited technology was back then and reminds me of the history of games as I believed that the game I played is a part of gaming history.