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Asteroid

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1980 · 2-2 players · 180min · weight 2.25 · 167 ratings

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ID
1772
Name
Asteroid
Year
1980
Rank
11496
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
180
Min playtime
120
Max playtime
180
Avg weight
2.25
Num weights
24
Bayes avg
5.56756
Average
6.64737
Users rated
167
Num owned
547
Wanting
27
Wishing
67
Num comments
106
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (9)
Dice RollingGrid MovementLine of SightModular BoardMovement PointsSimulationSquare GridVariable Player PowersVariable Set-up
Categories (3)
AdventureScience FictionWargame
Description (1224 chars)

In Asteroid, one player controls a team of adventurers attempting to destroy a runaway mining asteroid on a collision course with Earth; the other player controls the evil computer brain that runs the mining station. The good guys must overcome the station's defenses (including various nasty robots), turn off the computer brain, set the asteroid to self-destruct, and escape before it blows. Each of the adventurers has unique characteristics, including ranged and melee combat abilities, computer skills, demolition skills, stealthiness, psychic ability, luck and even emotional attachments to other characters. The computer brain player secretly determines the configuration of the modular boards to form a map of the mining station and deploys robots to prevent the adventurers from shutting it down. Victory levels for the adventurers include World Survival Victory, Personal Survival Victory, Common Decency Victory, Romantic Victory and even SPCA Victory (involving the outcome with respect to the dog character, Sasha). One of GDW's Series 120 games, the game includes eight 5.5" x 8.5" maps and 120 tile counters that represent the characters, robots, items, etc. It was resold from Kokusai-Tsushin in 2003.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.