Asteroids Imitations

Asteroids isn't the only game that dares you to go one-on-many in an asteroid field (or something like that)...

Suicide Mission - You must control a microscopic ship lodged inside a person's heart, shooting any and all viruses with your penicillin torpedoes. If that sounds like a bit of a stretch for an Asteroids clone, it is. Released by Starpath for their Supercharger cassette adapter for the Atari 2600, Suicide Mission was going to be called Meteoroid, and basically be a better game of Asteroids than Atari's own 2600 offering. Atari's lawyers convinced Starpath that releasing Meteoroid wouldn't be wise.

Minestorm - Every Vectrex console has this game built in. Short of actually buying an Asteroids arcade game or building a custom vector-based game system, this is the closest home players can get to playing Asteroids with true vector graphics.

Maelstrom - This just might be the most famous shareware game ever for 1990s Apple Macintoshes. Sharp graphics, amusing sound effects, and some sly power-ups make this a much better update to Asteroids than any of the 3-D efforts.