![]() ![]() At that point, Atari offers players incentives to keep spending additional money for “Space Bucks” that unlock additional stages and items. The lure here is a free, visually updated version of the overhead shooter that starts out ad-supported, but becomes ad-free with a $1 “remove ads” purchase. ![]() So Atari and Fluik Entertainment have teamed up to release the universal iOS game Asteroids Gunner (Free/$1), a sequel that feels as if it was expressly designed to drain dollars rather than quarters out of players’ pockets. ![]() As much as it hurts to say this given the size of our retro game collection, the classic quarter-sucking arcade title Asteroids hasn’t aged particularly well as a shooter: yes, Atari had a novel idea when it originally placed a lone spaceship in the middle of a collection of rocks, challenging players to blast away until they were all gone, but the turn-thrust-shoot-shoot-shoot action quickly gets repetitive and boring for all but high score chasers. ![]()
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