The game works on the freemium model: the basic app is free to download, and comes with your basic Scout ship and 50 levels in the Alpha zone. In addition, you can have up to two bonus slots above your right thumb that can store weapons, shields, or other bonuses. Also, the controls are different now: it's a dual-thumbstick setup, with your left thumb controlling the direction of the ship and your right thumb aiming the gun. My stay-put-and-shoot strategy doesn't work so well anymore, since that doesn't really let me collect any of the things I need to pick up, so I've had to abandon that. Of course, there's a lot of other bells and whistles, too: you collect gold-colored crystal shards that are released when you destroy rocks, and you can also get power-ups that give you temporary weapon boosts, shields, and the like. The premise is still pretty much the same: shoot rocks (and the occasional alien), don't die. Ever since then, that's been my own modus operandi in most Asteroids-like games (and probably also explains my tendency to camp out with a sniper rifle in first-person shooters rather than charging into the fray with a melee weapon).Ītari has updated their classic space shoot-'em-up for iOS devices: Asteroids Gunner puts you back in the pilot's seat in a top-down, screen-wrapping arcade game. Once you turned on your thrusters, you'd be drifting off toward the edges of the screen, where new asteroids spawned, and it was pretty unlikely that you'd ever be able to stop completely until you died. What I particularly remember was learning my dad's strategy: stay put in the center of the screen, shooting down the asteroids from there, and - if at all possible - avoid moving from that spot. Forward to thrust, left and right to rotate, button to fire, and down to activate your special ability (hyperspace, shield, or flip). You were a triangular ship, or at least as close to a triangle as the Atari was capable of reproducing on the screen, and all you got was a joystick and one button. (Well, if you don't count the Colecovision.) I remember both of my parents played Asteroids, but my dad especially. I remember playing Asteroids on an Atari 2600, my family's first gaming system.
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