Comments on: Multiplayer Asteroids

Multiplayer Asteroids

boo_radley — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:45:22 -0800

FLASH GAME FOR YOUR FRIDAY: Multiplayer Asteroids The name, Multiplayer Asteroids (or is it Asteroids Multiplayer?) is a bit of a misnomer since the asteroids did not actually make it into this version of the game. Instead, each player (up to 16 in a room) pilots a ship in an all-out deathmatch, melee style, with the objective being to rack up more kills than deaths. link and description via jayisgames

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:51:33 -0800

Shouldn't it be Multiplayer Spacewar, then?

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:05:33 -0800

Not much fun for me. I click on start, I get a static screen full of ships and shots but nothing moving. Eventually, it tells me that I've died and need to respawn.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:08:31 -0800

Repeated, almost instant death.... which means I'm defeating the insurgency, right?

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:13:14 -0800

Mayhem!

By: Flashman

Flashman — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:18:36 -0800

The way to win is to form alliances.

By: SpaceBass

SpaceBass — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:43:47 -0800

This game was cooler when it was called SubSpace. :P

By: equalpants

equalpants — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:50:36 -0800

Fun idea, but way too many players in one room...

By: Kifer85

Kifer85 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:57:19 -0800

awesome.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:59:27 -0800

Wow. Pretty frantic, but ultimately pointless. I mena you have X number of points and you basically just get pounded on randomly untilly ou die.

By: fings

fings — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:08:02 -0800

Reminds me of the "old" days (circa 1993) and trying to play XPilot ^.

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:20:15 -0800

Subspace ruled.....

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:33:38 -0800

Years ago, I worked up a design for a multi-sector SubSpace, where each sector was a different server, connected by "wormholes" -- actually, it was more of a cross between SubSpace and TradeWars^ (ya, the old BBS game). Woulda, coulda, shoulda been bad-ass...

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:52:27 -0800

Xpilot was good, but Netrek was the best online game ever.

By: Tryptophan-5ht

Tryptophan-5ht — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:58:48 -0800

i made it to the top of the listing by stalking the edes of the screen. The center is pure death.

By: anthill

anthill — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:46:57 -0800

Subspace is great, and its open-sourced corpse still lives!. Good times. Asteroids is stalled, won't load. Any solution?

By: LairBob

LairBob — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:27:13 -0800

God, Subspace was awesome--lost hours and hours a week to it. I used to love that ship with the bouncing bombs.

By: Otis

Otis — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:34:40 -0800

Server is full? Booooo!

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:06:05 -0800

this is pretty fun! also: subspace had nothing on silent death (quit with the fucking caretpedia links already)

By: Alterscape

Alterscape — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:35:07 -0800

Wow, someone else who knows Subspace / Silent Death. In highschool, that game seriously ate several hundred hours of my time over the span of a few months. For those of you willing to accept singleplayer, there's always Transcendence, which has a few things in common with Silent Death and Nethack.

By: D.C.

D.C. — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:39:42 -0800

absalom is right. "Asteroids" with multiple players but without asteroids is Spacewar.