Space Rubbish

June 13, 2011 10:40 AM

Space Rubbish Take asteroids, add in an upgrade system and more realistic rock fracturing and you get the frantic experience of Space Rubbish. (Flash)
posted by boo_radley (19 comments total)

A good upgrade and keeps whatever it is that's so addictive about the first version intact. Love their choice of sounds. I could nearly smell the cig smoke, chewing gum and fried food of the cafe where I spent too many 10p's on the original.
posted by merocet at 11:08 AM on June 13, 2011

Is good. I like the way the asteroids hit each other. I don't like the slow upgrades and I'm not good enough to survive the occasional hostile spaceship.
posted by Nelson at 11:09 AM on June 13, 2011

Nobody told me there was going to be a big glowing blue thing sweeping through the middle of the screen.
posted by Wolfdog at 11:12 AM on June 13, 2011

I suck just as bad at this as I do at Asteroids.
posted by Ad hominem at 11:16 AM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]

Uh, I'm not sure what's up with this, but the Arcade Mode menu option does nothing for me (under Chrome or IE), and the Career Mode option just takes me to a screen nagging me to buy, where the "maybe later" option does nothing.
posted by adamdschneider at 11:27 AM on June 13, 2011

Works in Chrome for me. Quite good fun. Judicious use of your shield to get you out of trouble seems to be the key. Presumably one of the later upgrades is the ability to fly off the top of the screen and back onto the bottom. Got myself killed twice before I figured out I couldn't do that.
posted by IanMorr at 11:31 AM on June 13, 2011

Infuriating.
posted by adamdschneider at 11:50 AM on June 13, 2011

Thyis is way cool. And, what Ad Hominem said.
posted by Xoebe at 11:56 AM on June 13, 2011

I love games where your control has all the deftness of a broke-legged cow buried upside down in a vat of peanut butter. Wait, not love; the other word.
posted by FatherDagon at 12:04 PM on June 13, 2011

Holy crap I just now realized that Planetes is basically Asteroids fan fiction.
posted by penduluum at 12:04 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

Space Rubbish

Thought this was going to be about Firefly.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:09 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

I sure am glad I got that insurance!
posted by not_on_display at 1:23 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

One of his other games, Nanotube, is also excellent and fiendishly difficult.

This game is really great, but I just can't get that second freaking level-up, and it seems like if you don't get it you really get screwed.
posted by en forme de poire at 2:56 PM on June 13, 2011

back in my windows 98 days, I seem to recall an Asteroids tribute game where they used gorgeous backgrounds from the Hubble telescope. can't seem to find any trace of it with my feeble googling, though.
posted by Redhush at 6:49 PM on June 13, 2011

Maybe it's just that I've been playing a lot of Jeff Minter's Solar Minotaur Rescue Frenzy lately, but this never approached "frantic" for me. I mean, there are times when strategic thinking dictates that one stop shooting!

Fun, though.
posted by egypturnash at 7:14 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

*sigh* happiness. Now if they would only put out a new 3-D version of Space War.
posted by happyroach at 10:18 PM on June 13, 2011

Fun game, but I miss the (often sucidal) hyperdrive. And getting rid of all your XP when you die is just mean.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 4:13 AM on June 14, 2011

Works at home. Insurance, indeed.
posted by adamdschneider at 7:15 AM on June 14, 2011

Curse you, Metafilter. I just got 9th highest score overall, and died of embarrassment over the time and energy wasted.

The reflexes from playing Maelstrom (12-13 years ago, was it?) seem to transfer just fine, and are now thoroughly cemented.
posted by tigrrrlily at 10:06 AM on June 16, 2011