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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 ten 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; possibly the worst shrink-wrapped copy in existence shows the ASTROSMASH SHOOTOFF! sticker
	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
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3605-0410	1981	Hong Kong	International version; plastic tray; no part number on top; NO SLOTS in back; slots inside for overlays; reported by Intellivotion
	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
	Digiplay	N/A	1981	Brazil	Digiplay edition; 'Rua Acará' address printed on back of box; Mattel Electronics logo on box; no part number apparent; © Mattel Inc. 1981 on front; trayless pocket; manual and overlays in separate horizontal slots; game title not localized; at least some Digiplay copies appear to have a competition ROM version of Astrosmash in them!
	Digiplay	N/A	1981	Brazil	Digimed edition; 'Rua Acará' address and sticker on back; Mattel Electronics logo on box; no part number apparent; © Mattel Inc. 1981 on front; trayless pocket; manual and overlays in separate vertical slots; game title not localized; back cover has sticker for Digiplay address and Digimed info printed directly on it
Image not available.	Digiplay	N/A	1981	Brazil	Digiplay edition; 'Av. Açaí' address printed on back of box; Mattel Electronics logo on box; no part number apparent; © Mattel Inc. 1981 on front; trayless pocket; manual and overlays in separate horizontal slots; game title not localized; at least some Digiplay copies appear to have a competition ROM version of Astrosmash in them!

A total of thirteen 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.; this manual has also surfaced in some PlayCable packages (at least two known sightings)
	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
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0121	1981	Hong Kong	German; light blue artwork - not green like the standard manuals
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3605-0121	1981	Hong Kong	German; standard light green / white / dark blue artwork
	Mattel Electronics	3605-0161	1981	Hong Kong	Dutch; noted, and image contributed by cmart; need confirmation of part number, other appearance details
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3605-0141	1981	Hong Kong	Spanish; "light" blue background
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3605-0131	1981	Hong Kong	Italian; "light" blue background; need confirmation of part number
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	3605-0151	1981		Swedish version; NEED DETAILS
	Intellivision Inc.	3605-0920	None	U.S.A.	Accordion-style folding
	Sears	3864-0920	1981	U.S.A.
	Digiplay	N/A	1979	Brazil	Digiplay edition; © M.I. 1979 on back; Av. Açaí address on back
	Digiplay	N/A	1979	Brazil	Digimed edition; © M.I. 1979 on back; submitted by Psycho Stormtrooper; some differences in front / back pages but not game description content; Rua Acará on back

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, send a message!

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

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	3605-4289-G1	1981	U.S.A.	Pleasing black background
	Mattel Electronics	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!
	Digiplay	3605-4289-G1	None		Copyright masked out; image courtesy of mcg423; convinced this is a Digiplay and not Intellivision, Inc. variant based on observations over the years
	Digiplay	N/A	1981		Localized in Brazilian Portuguese; image submitted by ??? (sorry, I forgot!)
	Digiplay	N/A	1981		Localized in Brazilian Portuguese; should this count as a variant—it's just gray instead of black
	Phil Boland	49 75229	1981	U.S.A.	Part of the Sears Super Video Arcade Overlay Set (2013)
	Intellivision Productions	N/A	None		Part of the standard 10 overlay set from the 2014 Intellivision Flashback; copyright information has been removed; solid black background
	Intellivision Productions	N/A	None		Found in the overlays included with the Sam's Club and Dollar General editions of the 2014 Intellivision Flashback, it's unclear of this is particular to these special editions, or if it's just happenstance; copyright information has been removed; gray background
	Blue Sky Rangers	N/A	2019		Reprint from Blue Sky Rangers in 2019

A total of seven 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
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	1981	U.S.A.	Origin lower left; © M.I. 1981; ™ top right; appears to be painted on and not a sticker label; thanks to intvdave pointing me to a forum post about these
	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
	Digiplay	N/A	None		Digiplay edition; no origin; ™ upper right; name not localized; submitted by Psycho Stormtrooper
	Phil Boland	N/A	None		Part of the Sears Super Video Arcade Overlay Set (2013)

	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.

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