Mission Asteroid

An asteroid is on collision course with Earth and it's up to the player to prevent the inevitable catastrophe. "Mission Asteroid" is the third text adventure with graphical illustrations by Sierra. But due to its easy difficulty level it was released as number zero in Sierra's Hi-Res Adventure series. The game's parser only understands simple one- or two-word commands.

Released: 1 December 1980
Platforms: Apple II Atari 8-bit Commodore 64 Commodore C64/128/MAX FM-7 PC-8800 Series PC-9800 Series
Genres: Adventure
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Series: Hi-Res Adventure
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Text
Themes: Science fiction
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB T
Languages: English
Time to beat: 0.5hwith extras2hcompletionist

About

Mission Asteroid (shown as Mission: Asteroid in the manual and on the title screen) is a graphic adventure game for the Apple II written by Ken and Roberta Williams and released in 1980 by On-Line Systems.

›Story

There is a terrible tragedy about to happen to Earth. An asteroid, is speeding through space directly toward Earth. This particular asteroid was one of many revolving about the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Somehow, this asteroid jumped its orbit and is now threatening the life of every living soul on Earth.

The only way to stop the asteroid is to blow it up in space before it gets to Earth. As an astronaut, you are assigned the duty of rocketing to the asteroid and blowing it up.

Keywords

interactive fiction

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Reception

Mark Marlow reviewed Mission: Asteroid, Mystery House, and The Wizard and the Princess for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Mission: Asteroid is the simplest of the group and only requires a few hours to solve".

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Platform	Released	Regions
Apple II	31 December 1980	North America
Atari 8-bit	31 December 1980	North America
FM-7	1 April 1983	Japan
PC-8800 Series	1 April 1983	Japan
PC-9800 Series	1 April 1983	Japan
Commodore C64/128/MAX	31 December 1984	Europe