DCAsteroids by Jim Susinno 2002

As featured on the news sites Consolevision and DCEmulation
DCAsteroids is a homebrew 3D Asteroids clone for Sega Dreamcast for 1-4 players written in C using Kallistios(KOS).

Gameplay:

The object of the game is to destroy all asteroids in space. The asteroids and your ship are limited to a finite cube of space.
Your ship has a finite amount of health(100 points). When impacted by asteroids or enemy bullets, your ship loses health.
When it reaches zero, your ship explodes.
Powerups may float into space and will upgrade your weapon if collected.
  • White - extra health(75 points)
  • Red - automatic machine gun
  • Blue - 3 shot spread fire
    Powerups are more plentiful in the lower levels. stock up on them there, then try to stay alive. Both machine gun and spread may be active at once.
    Enemies (the purple flying saucers) will try to shoot you and other players. Shoot them first.
    After a little while they will lose interest, but in the higher levels they come after you for longer...

    Multiplayer:

    The number of players is determined by the number of controllers plugged into the console at boot time.
    player 1: red   player 2: blue   player 3: yellow   player 4: green
    Players receive points for destroying another player and lose points for dying. Competitive play and cooperative play are both possible.

    Controls:

    Analog Stick - aim ship
    Directional Pad - thrust vertically up/down, strafe left/right
    Y - thrust forward
    X - change view
    A - brake(slow down -> stop) - while holding A other controls are non-functional.
    Right Trigger - depress rapidly to shoot primary cannon, hold to charge for laser blast (ready when meter turns from red to green)
    Left Trigger - hold to zoom in and adjust sensitivity of thrusters and aim
    Start - pause

    Downloads:

    DCAsteroids can be downloaded as a raw .elf executable for Dreamcast, or as a bootable CD-ROM image for Nero or DiscJuggler.

    Screenshots:

    Screenshot 1 - single player
    Screenshot 2 - 2 player split screen

    Other games:

    If you like Dreamcast homebrew try these selections from Jimbomania homebrew games:
    Battery - 3D multiplayer fighting game
    Titres - multiplayer tetris clone