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Asteroid

Game Designers' Workshop, 1980

Asteroid is a tabletop game published by Game Designers' Workshop in 1980. It is played with 2 players, from age 10 and in about 120 to 180 minutes.

players
2
minutes
120–180
years
10+

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Publishers
Game Designers' Workshop, Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games), Hobby Japan, Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (国際通信社)
Designers
Frank Chadwick, Marc W. Miller
Artwork
Paul Richard "Rich" Banner, Michael F. Dooney, Michael Dooney, Richard Hentz, Naoyuki Kato, William H. Keith, Jr.
Year of release
1980

About the game

Asteroid is a 1980 science fiction board game published by Game Designers' Workshop (GDW) as one of their 120 series. Players must destroy a mad scientist's computer-controlled asteroid before it crashes into Earth.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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