Asteroids

Asteroids (Arcade, 1979) has a full disassembly, nmikstas/asteroids-disassembly, and 11 other public projects, including an official source code release and an open-source reimplementation. An agent environment already wraps it.

Data checked 2026-10-13 · unbaked registry

Projects

asteroids-disassembly

Disassembly55 starspushed 2019-12-16no license

Disassembly of the Asteroids arcade game firmware

asteroids-7800archived

Source release28 starspushed 2015-06-22no license

Asteroids (1987) by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 7800

repo archived; 6502 source: ORIGINAL

historicalsource/asteroids

Source releaseoriginal assembler sources (period toolchains: Atari PDP-11 MAC65/coi…23 starspushed 2021-10-14no license

A flying and rock-shooting game

Original developer source listings archived by historicalsource (2021 Williams/Midway/Atari coin-op drops); no license, copyright owners' code. Raw listings; may need period assembler to rebuild.

Atari Asteroids

Reimplementationpygame16 starspushed 2019-01-03GPL-3.0 license

A Python 3 / Pygame port of the classic Atari Asteroids Arcade videogame

development halted; status playable

Sine

ReimplementationSFML9 starspushed 2021-10-01MIT license

Sine is an unfinished remake of Asteroids.

development halted; status semi-playable

historicalsource/asteroids-cocktail

Source releaseoriginal assembler sources (Atari 6502 / Williams 6809 / Midway TMS34…4 starspushed 2021-10-14no license

Asteroids you can sit down at

Original developer source listings archived by historicalsource (2021 coin-op drops); no license

Vectoroids

ReimplementationSDL2 starspushed 2024-07-07GPL-2.0 license

Vectoroids is a clone of the classic arcade game Asteroids by Atari ported for the web

development complete; status playable

Agendaroids

ReimplementationC

development complete; status playable

Asteroid

ReimplementationOpenGL, GTK, SDL

development complete; status playable; Modern version of the arcade classic Asteroids

Asteroids Disassembly

ReimplementationAssembly

development complete; status playable

asteroids-7800-disassemblynew, unvetted

Disassemblya7800-toolkit (Miasmark), 6502 assembler0 starspushed 2026-09-10no license

Byte-identical disassembly and memory-map investigation of Asteroids (Atari 7800, 1987), verified live in MAME

byte-identical disassembly; memory map verified live in MAME ()

Asteroids disassembly (Dennis Debro (milnak); computerarcheology)covers 58 games

DisassemblyDASM (6502), Distella-derived listings8 starspushed 2026-04-26no license

Collection of Atari VCS (2600) dissembly. Some in complete state, some in early stages.

Commented disassembly by Dennis Debro (milnak); computerarcheology (milnak collection separates ROM-matching listings from a 'Not Matched' folder)

What you need

You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.

Agent environments

MAMEToolkit (M-J-Murray/MAMEToolkit) can wrap any MAME game
ALE (Farama-Foundation/Arcade-Learning-Environment); OCAtari (k4ntz/OC_Atari); JAXtari pure-JAX reimplementation (k4ntz/JAXtari)

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Found via search?type=repositories&q=%22disassembly+of%22+, realdmx/retrore, nmikstas/asteroids-disassembly, 6502disassembly.com/va-asteroids/, computerarcheology.com/Arcade/Asteroids/

GitHub data checked 2026-10-13. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.