As arcade games died out, Asteroids lived on
The spaceship and the floating asteroids are all simple forms of a few white lines set on a background of black, but the thrilling gameplay was enough to get players to spend quarter after quarter in 1981 alone, Americans put 20 billion quarters through arcade games, playing 75,000 man-hours on them.Two aspects of Asteroids its wraparound screen and the way asteroids are destroyed helped make the game a stunning success.
Source: devdiscourse.com