Yesterday the asteroid 2012 DA14, with a diameter of about 50 meters, passed very close to the Earth leaving the fall of a trail of fragments and a meteor shower in Russia, in the Urals, evidenced by spectacular videos. So since asteroids and meteorites have been protagonists in this incredible week, we see 10 more fun online games, where you have to shoot meteorites and asteroids with a spaceship or with cannons .
Each of these games is playable on the web browser without the need to install other programs and without having to download anything.
1) Asteroids is one of the most famous and played games of all time, distributed by Atari in 1979 and re-proposed last year in a renewed version that faithfully follows the original one.
The game is simple, you have to shoot the asteroids from the spaceship by breaking them into smaller and smaller pieces until they are pulverized.
As reported in August 2012, with the collaboration of Microsoft, Atari games can be played for free online in HTML5, compatible with the web browsers of all computers and also on tablets.
2) Lunar Lander, also from Atari, is another popular game where the goal is to pilot a lunar landing module making it land without incident.
Like Asteroids, this is also a free HTML5 game.
3) KickAssApp is a very particular game, identical to Asteroids, which can be played against the background of a website of your choice.
It is a bookmaklet that can be used on any browser, Firefox, Google Chrome or Internet Explorer.
To start the game on any site, drag the Launch Kickass button in the center of the game site with the mouse on the favorites bar.
The bookmarklet can be pressed at any time when you are bored.
The goal is not to destroy asteroids but every element of the website that you are browsing.
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4) Mission Control is another classic Atari game where you have to defend cities from falling missiles, more and more, from above, shooting them with cannons from the ground.
5) Star Fox is a different game, with a spaceship to drive in 3D, with a third person view from behind.
It is a 1993 game for SNES that can be played for free on SNexBox, an emulator online with original games from Nintendo, SNes and Sega Megadrive
6) Super R-Type is the remake of the popular arcade shooter, R-Type II a historical game for Commodore 64, Amiga and Super Nes.
This side scrolling space shooter requires you to destroy enemy spaceships, aliens, asteroids and more without crashing.
The game is absolutely free always on the SNESBox website.
7) R Type Clone is another horizontal scrolling spaceship game similar to R-Type, newer to download for free on your computer.
Unlike R-Type, you can customize the ship before starting the game, select a different background, weapons and different extras.
8) Asteroids in 3D is another free download game where you can drive a spaceship with a view from behind to destroy asteroids, metorites and everything that disturbs navigation.
9) Descent is a 3D first person shooter developed for DOS PCs in 1994.
The object of the game is to dodge mines while fighting virus-infected robots.
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