Diamond Dave Assteroidz Game Launches!

Good clean arcade fun never goes out of fashion.

By Fred Mills

Proof that David Lee Roth ain't just diamond, he's perennial GOLD, came back in December when we brought you word of a DLR-themed website whereby you could click through and receive a veritable choruses of short Roth audio clips ("Oh God!" "Whooo!" "You know, UHHH!" etc.). Seriously good twisted fun, and the site appears to still be operative.

This one's even better: a Van Halen Asteroids game - or, more accurately, Diamond Dave Edition Assteroidz. It utilizes the typical keyboard controls (up arrow for thrust, L-R arrow to rotate, space bar to fire the blasters), but instead of the familiar chunky asteroids we all know and love from back in the early ‘80s, the objects floating through space that you have to destroy are assorted Van Halen logos, disembodied Eddie Van Halen heads, a roly-poly looking alien, and more.

Your icon that's doing the blasting? None other than depiction of a leaping, split-legged Roth, natch. Sound effects include, quite logically, random Roth utterances.

Watch out for that head of Sammy Hagar that goes zipping past ya! He can't drive just 55!