Editing Asteroids (video game) (section)

===Clones===
[[Quality Software]]'s ''Asteroids in Space'' (1980) was one of the best selling games for the [[Apple II]] and voted one of the most popular software titles of 1978–80 by ''[[Softalk]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine
 |url          = http://apple2history.org/history/appy/aha78.html
 |title        = Most Popular Software of 1978-80
 |access-date  = November 5, 2008
 |year         = 1980
 |magazine     = Softalk
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20081210184310/http://apple2history.org/history/appy/aha78.html
 |archive-date = December 10, 2008
 |df           = mdy-all}}</ref> In December 1981, ''[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]'' reviewed eight ''Asteroids'' clones for home computers.<ref name="williams198112">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE_06-12_Computer_Games#page/n163/mode/2up | title=Battle of the Asteroids | work=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] | date=December 1981 | access-date=12 August 2015 | author=Williams, Gregg | pages=163–165 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517115420/https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE_06-12_Computer_Games#page/n163/mode/2up | archive-date=May 17, 2016 | url-status=live | df=mdy-all}}</ref> Three clones for the Apple II were reviewed together in the 1982 ''Creative Computing Software Buyers Guide'': ''The Asteroid Field'', ''Asteron'', and ''[[Apple-Oids]]''.<ref name="ahl">{{cite journal |last1=Ahl |first1=David |last2=Staples |first2=Betsy |title=Games for Clods |journal=Creative Computing Software Buyers Guide 1982 |date=1982 |page=80 |url=https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingSoftwareBuyersGuide1982/page/n83}}</ref> In the last of these, the asteroids are in the shape of apples. Two independent clones, ''Asteroid'' for the Apple II and ''Fasteroids'' for TRS-80, were renamed to ''[[Planetoids (video game)|Planetoids]]'' and sold by [[Adventure International]]. Others clones include [[Acornsoft]]'s ''Meteors'', ''Moons of Jupiter'' for the [[VIC-20]], ''[[MineStorm]]'' for the [[Vectrex]],<ref name="RetroGamerAsteroids"/> and Quicksilva's ''Meteor Storm'' for the [[ZX Spectrum]] which uses speech synthesis. A poorly implemented ''Asteroids'' clone for the VIC-20, published by [[Bug-Byte]], motivated [[Jeff Minter]] to found [[Llamasoft]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hague |first1=James |title=Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers |date=1997 |publisher=Dadgum Games |url=https://dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/MINTER.HTM}}</ref>

The [[Intellivision]] game ''Meteor!'' was cancelled to avoid a lawsuit for being too similar to ''Asteroids'' and was reworked as ''[[Astrosmash]]''. The game borrows elements from ''Asteroids'' and ''Space Invaders''.<ref name="RG-55"/><ref name="WeissCHVG">
{{cite book
  | last = Weiss
  | first = Brett
  | title = Classic Home Video Games, 1972-1984: A Complete Reference Guide
  | year = 2007
  | edition = 1st
  | publisher = McFarland}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=ConsoleMuseum.Detail&id=17&game=9 |title=Mattel Intellivision - 1980-1984 |work=ClassicGaming |publisher=IGN |access-date=May 16, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080623232114/http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=ConsoleMuseum.Detail&id=17&game=9 |archive-date=June 23, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>