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Game ID: 8839
Console / System: Intellivision
Title: Astrosmash
Scarcity (loose): 1
Value in USD (loose): 2
Scarcity (complete): 0
Value in USD (complete): 0
Publisher: Mattel/INTV
Section: 1
Designer: John Sohl
Exceptional: +
Description: One of Mattel's most popular games, an "Astrosmash Shoot off" was held in Houston, Texas to determine the greatest Astrosmash player. The grand prize was $100,000 The entrants competed in 1 hour of timed play. 18-year-old Manuel Rodriguez of Stockton, California won the $100,000 top prize with a score of 835,180. The game itself is rather common since Mattel offered the game free upon purchase of specially marked Master Console boxes (in 1983 Astrosmash replaced Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack as the pack-in game for the Intellivision console). The original design of Astrosmash was much more true to Asteroids with the ship in the middle of the screen and everything! Programmer John Sohl was forced to differentiate it from Atari’s Asteroids for obvious legal reasons.
Country / region: USA
Part #: 3605
System exclusive: 0
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