Eightbitoids

I built this game in GameMaker Studio 2 as a birthday gift for my nephew who has an interest in retro gaming. I wanted to make something for him that I played as a kid in the 80s so Asteroids from the Atari 2600 was an easy choice. I've tried to be as true to the original as possible because I wanted it to feel like an old game but make it more accessible than the original. I've provided a menu to select game modes similar to the original game (there were 66 of them, selected only by a physical hardware switch on the console itself.) The score can roll over just like the original - the max is 99999 which could be stored in 2 and a half 8-bit bytes and the maximum extra ships is 9, which took up the other half byte. The enemies are mindless but surprisingly deadly.

I really hope you enjoy this game, I had a ton of fun building it!

Stephan