Mission Asteroid

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Mission Asteroid
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Re-release cover art [1]
Developer(s) On-Line Systems
Publisher(s) On-Line Systems
Designer(s) Roberta Williams [2]
Programmer(s) Ken Williams [2]
Series Hi-Res Adventures
Engine ADL
Platform(s) Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64
Release1980: Apple II [3]
1982: Atari [4]
1983: C64
Genre(s) Graphic adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Mission Asteroid (shown as Mission: Asteroid in the manual and on the title screen) [4] is a graphic adventure game for the Apple II written by Ken and Roberta Williams and released in 1980 by On-Line Systems. [2]

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Release

The game was released as Hi-Res Adventures #0, despite being released after Mystery House and Wizard and the Princess . It was meant as an introduction to the adventure game genre so it was made easier than the rest of the Hi-Res Adventures games. [5]

It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers [4] and Commodore 64.

Reception

Advertisement from the June 1981 issue of The On-Line Letter for some of On-Line Systems' Hi-Res Adventure games, including Mission Asteroid On-Line Systems - Hi-Res Adventure - June 1981 The On-Line Letter advert.jpg
Advertisement from the June 1981 issue of The On-Line Letter for some of On-Line Systems' Hi-Res Adventure games, including Mission Asteroid

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". [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Mission Asteroid - Boxed Release (Commodore 64)". Vintage-Sierra.net. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Hague, James (2025-07-23). "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers" . Retrieved 2025-07-24.
  3. ↑ "Stocking Stuffers". Softalk . December 1980. p. 24. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  4. 1 2 3 "Mission: Asteroid". Atari Mania.
  5. ↑ "On-Line Systems Catalog" (PDF). 1981.
  6. ↑ Marlow, Mark (January–February 1982). "Micro - Reviews". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 2. pp. 31–32.
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