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CES 2011: Play Asteroids old school style with the iCade mini cabinet
At CES you can find tons and tons of accessories and other nifty little add-ons for your gadgets. Old school gamers may be drawn to one in particular — ION Audio’s iCade, a mini arcade cabinet for your iPad.
Asteroids record broken after 28 years
Every gamer has heard of the legendary game Asteroids. It was released in 1979 and quickly became one of the most popular in the arcade. As people got better at the game they started amassing big scores and competing for the coveted high score position. Unfortunately that competition ended on 1982 when a 15 year old boy named Scott Safran set a record so huge that no one beat it for 28 years.
Last night, the impressive score of 41,336,440 was finally surpassed.
Gamertell Review: Ion Assault for Xbox Live
If you are a fan of those old space adventure games like Asteroids, then you will love Coreplay’s Ion Assault.
It’s a new arcade game available through Xbox Live where you can battle space aliens and other creatures while shooting at any and all asteroids that may be blocking you. The game takes place on one screen where you fly your ship, spinning around to shoot an aliens or any space debris that is in your way. As you destroy different things you earn power ups including augmented speed and a bigger radius for which to collect destroyed particles.
Super Stardust HD goes portable December 4, 2008
How about it Super Stardust HD fans? Are you ready to blow up asteroids on the go? If so, the dust off the Playstation Portables because PlayStation.Blog has announced that Super Stardust Portable will finally be launching on December 4, 2008, (aka next Thursday). It will be available on the Playstation Store for $9.99.
To compensate for the lack of a second analog stick, the face buttons will be used to…
McDonald’s totally awesome mail-in rebates for Atari VCS, games
For a limited time, McDonald’s will be offering a Whopper-ing $10 mail-in rebate for the Atari VCS (aka 2600) gaming system. I got my hands on the mail-in form from a secret source. I would load it to the Gamertell BBS computer for you to look at but it doesn’t convert to ASCII very well.
In addition to the $10 rebate, the form also offers $3 rebates on 15 great Atari cartridges including…
Classic Atari games arriving on Xbox Live
Now that Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe are available on Xbox Live Arcade, Atari has announced that three other classic arcade titles are on their way for the service. Battlezone, Tempest and Warlords will receive the “Asteroids treatment”, bringing both the original title and a version with enhanced graphics, sound, and special FX to Xbox Live more »
Asteroids making a comeback on Xbox Live
Microsoft is bringing the world of old school arcade shooters to the Xbox 360 with the release of Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe, both available as a single download on Xbox Live starting today, November 28, 2007. Asteroids was one of the first shooters available on the arcades and it will surely strike a chord with more »















