Atari Launches Asteroids On-Chain | Web3 Daily

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• Atari is about to launch a few its retro video games on the blockchain, beginning with Asteroids; which may very well be cool, however it additionally may not make sense…

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In the event you grew up going to the arcade, chances are high you’ve performed Atari’s sport, Asteroids (see gif ).

Properly, in one other case of ‘old fashioned firm strikes into web3,’ Atari is about to launch a few its retro video games on the blockchain, beginning with Asteroids.

Atari has basically created an on-chain arcade, full with NFT entry passes and scores which can be recorded on the blockchain (it was constructed on Base).

On one hand, that is actually cool.

Gamers will be capable to compete in opposition to one another on the leaderboard for weekly prizes – with all scores verified on the blockchain.

It’s additionally good advertising.

I imply, who loves retro video video games? Nerds.

Who additionally loves crypto? Nerds.

However right here’s the factor…

To be able to play Asteroids it’s a must to mint (i.e. purchase) an NFT entry cross for $5.25 (0.0015 ETH).

And whereas it’s not like that’s going to interrupt the financial institution for most individuals, it’s nonetheless a costlier, increased friction possibility than all of the free options that exist already on-line.

The place web3 may be helpful is that if Atari launches an entire bunch of latest video games and as a participant, your rating/character/profile interprets throughout video games.

Possibly that’s a part of the bigger imaginative and prescient (or possibly not, we do not know).

However in a world the place so many video games are free, it may be a tricky ask to onboard hundreds or tens of millions to an upfront paid model as a substitute.

Then once more, who is aware of – we’d like to be unsuitable!