I actually think Asteroids is one of the few games that work well on a cocktail. IMHO anything that needs a 4-way joystick will suck on cocktail. I played Speleo's Asteroids cocktail when we visited him and I was hooked ! (Have to admit it was the first time in about 25 years that I actually played it on the original hardware and vector monitor.)
Cocktails are nice if you have a special place for them, or LOTS of space in your gameroom. I guess the only cocktail I would want to have right now is Joust.