Final score: 8310

  • Jo Miran
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    6 months ago

    That’s the wrong controller for that game. The way to go is with the dial controller.

    SOURCE: I beat it on my 2600 as a kid.

    • guyrocket@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      ?

      I must not remember correctly but I didn’t think it was possible to “beat” asteroids. I thought it just went on forever…like space… I remember playing one game for hours and hours.

      Must be in a mode or difficulty I didn’t play.

      • Jo Miran
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        6 months ago

        It has a maximum score before it restarts the count. I can’t remember what that was.

        • wjrii@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          The old-school term for that was “flipping” a game. Super Mario Brothers and Zelda and the NES era more generally really brought in the concept of “beating” games.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Does the VCS even have a dial controller as an option? Obviously the 2600 original did, but I almost backed the VCS and don’t remember anything other than the paddle and a modern style controller as options.

      • Redkey@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        According to promotional material, the 2021 VCS “Classic Controller” has a twistable joystick for paddle controller functionality. “Paddle” is the usual term for the rotary analog controller, which I think is what is meant by “dial controller”

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      How did that work? The dial was analog left right and a button.

      The thrust on asteroids was digital- on or off forward, left, right and back on the joystick was hyperspace jump.

      You couldn’t move or hyper jump if you used the dial.