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One of the most popular and distinctive Intellivision games. Too bad Meteor! was cut out of it.

Graphics: 3 Sound: 3 Replay Value: 3 Notes: 1-player game; one of the most popular games for the console Screen Shots

Astrosmash! is an interesting take on the Space Invaders / Asteroids phenomenon. Faced with a dearth of 1-player games, and no high-profile arcade game licenses, this was the big splash for Mattel's efforts to produce arcade-style games for the Intellivision. Actually, this was quite a departure from the standard game fodder of the day - mostly 2-player sports games or 2-player strategy / military games like Sea Battle or Armor Battle. Another interesting facet of this game is that it gets easier as you do worse in the game. Best Score (Historical): 2.2 million+ [Slow speed, many years ago - I just couldn't play any more.] Best Score (Recent): 775655 [Fastest speed, < 2 hours!]

Apparently, my old high score wasn't even good enough to get me into any regional competition (I don't remember if I officially entered) for the Astrosmash Shootoff. Sure would have liked to have gotten one of the consolation prizes (a Keyboard Component! ACK!).

A total of six Astrosmash! box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0910	1981	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3605-0910	1981	Hong Kong	Plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel, Inc. Hawthorne, CA on bottom
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0510	1981	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; plastic tray; no part number on top; © Mattel Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada on back
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0410	1981	Hong Kong	International version; plastic tray; no part number on top
	Intellivision Inc.	3605	1981	U.S.A.	Standard Intellivision, Inc. box
	Sears	3864-0910-G1	1981	U.S.A.	Trayless pocket; blue game title on top and back; no part number on top

A total of seven Astrosmash! manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0920	1981	U.S.A.	Light green and white artwork on dark blue starfield; playing instruction update part number 3605-0360 also printed in U.S.A.
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0920	1981	Hong Kong	Light green and white artwork on dark blue starfield
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0720	1981	Hong Kong	French-Canadian; Light green and white artwork on dark blue starfield
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3605-0121	1981	Hong Kong	German; light blue artwork - no green like the standard manuals
	Intellivision Inc.	3605-0920	None	U.S.A.	Accordian-style folding
	Sears	3864-0920	1981	U.S.A.
Image not available.	Digiplay	N/A	1979	Brazil	Mattel/Digiplay edition; © M.I. 1979 on back; submitted by Psycho Stormtrooper

Supplemental Materials

The following supplemental materials have been found for Astrosmash!.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0360	1982	U.S.A.	Update to inform players about the different skill levels in the game—which any true devotee of the system would have already known ;-)

And here we have image of the actual Astrosmash Shootoff contest entry form. Many thanks to Phil for sending these images in! My copy looks like a mouse nibbled on it, so if you have an extra, let me know!

The patch for entering the contest is quite desirable, but is sadly missing from this page, as well as my collection. So, if you have a good scan of the patch, or even better, an extra one, let me know!

A total of five Astrosmash! overlay variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
Image not available.	mattel	3605-4289	1981	U.S.A.	Unconfirmed!—suspect that the original revision possibly included Meteor! reference on the overlay
	mattel	3605-4289-G1	1981	U.S.A.	Pleasing black background
	mattel	3605-4289-G1	1981	U.S.A.	Is the grey background due to the huge print run, or was it a modification?; today, they'd make versions for each of the background colors and challenge you to collect 'em all!
	intellivisioninc	3605-4289-G1	None		Copyright masked out; image courtesy of mcg423
	digiplay	N/A	1981		Localized in Brazilian Portuguese; image submitted by ??? (sorry, I forgot!)

A total of five Astrosmash! label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	U.S.A.	Origin upper right, ™ upper right; small rounded label
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	U.S.A.	Origin upper right, ™ upper right
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	Hong Kong	Origin upper right, ™ upper right
	Intellivision Inc.	N/A	1981	U.S.A.	Origin lower right; © I.I. 1981 to left of origin; ™ small, centered vertically on right edge; smaller label, rounded corners
Image not available.	Digiplay	N/A	None		Digiplay edition; no origin; ™ upper right; name not localized; submitted by Psycho Stormtrooper

	Title screen for Astrosmash!.
	As your score increases, you cycle through a sometimes 'eye-searing' (according to Electronic Games magazine) palette of background colors. Ultimately, at 100,000 points, the background color returns to soothing black.

If you find new, contradictory, or other information you wish to share, please let me know!