Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Atari, Inc.
- Summary
- This cartridge for the Atari 2600 video game console allowed players to compete at Asteroids, one of Atari, Inc.'s best-selling games. Atari, Inc. was incorporated in California in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Asteroids was developed by Atari staff, particularly Lyle Rains and Ed Logg, as a game that allowed players to destroy asteroids and flying saucers with a triangular ship that the player controls. Asteroids was originally released in 1979 and has been re-released on several platforms and gaming systems. As such, this popular video game represents one of the ways that the public has come to understand (or misunderstand) the astronomical phenomena of asteroids through popular culture.
- Samantha Thompson donated the game cartridge to the Smithsonian in 2020.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Samantha M. Thompson
- 1981
- Inventory Number
- A20220145000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
- Materials
- Plastic
- Ink
- Adhesive
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Game Cartridge): 9.8 × 8.3 × 1.9cm (3 7/8 × 3 1/4 × 3/4 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20220145000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9dce42ad6-90c7-4232-b322-33e082c7ca98
