Asteroids was scrapped because of the non-centering stick. If you have ever played the prototype 5200 Asteroids, it is not always fun to play because of the controls. Atari really should've immediately jumped on making a digital stick and a centering analog. I never understood the lack of urgency is fixing the blatant issue, but instead all of these attempted "band aid" fixes of thicker boots instead of directly releasing a digital stick. Damned shame too... the 5200 games were all great, better than Colecovisions. It was the controllers lack of centering that really hurt the overall system. However for games like Star Raiders, Missile Command, Centipede, Space Dungeon and Robotron... the sticks were actually superb.