Asteroids

1970s Arcade — Teaches rotation-based movement, inertia, wrap-around screens, splitting objects, and vector-style rendering.

Concept: Ship rotates left/right, thrust moves in facing direction with inertia/friction. Large asteroids drift across screen.

Concept: Screen edge wrapping for ship, bullets, and asteroids. Objects disappear on one edge, appear on the opposite.

Concept: Bullets fire in facing direction. Large asteroids split into medium, medium into small. Small ones are destroyed.

Concept: Mystery UFO spawns, targets player with aimed shots. Score values increase with smaller targets.

Concept: Lives, respawn invincibility frames, asteroid density increase per wave, high score.

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