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[4] [6] Space Invaders and several of its arcade sequels are often included in video game compilations released by Taito. It inspired numerous other games. [7] Many companies created clones that copied its gameplay, with more than a hundred Space Invaders clones released for various platforms by the early 1980s (such as Super Invader and TI ...
Space Invaders is a 1980 video game based on Taito's arcade game Space Invaders (1978) for the Atari 2600. [a] It was developed and released by Atari, Inc. and designed and developed by Rick Maurer. The game is based on the arcade game in which a player operates a laser cannon to shoot at incoming enemies from outer space.
Bugs From Outer Space: from a six-part series of articles in 80 Micro by Roger Smith Camel: Castle Zhagwhar: Keith Schuler Clash: Joust clone Colossal Cave Adventure: distributed by Microsoft: Conquest of Chesterwoode: Cosmic Fighter: Big Five Software: Astro Fighter clone Cosmic Invaders: Space Invaders clone Cuthbert Goes Walkabout: Cyborg ...
Space Invaders < 12,000 [17] [18] 4 Moon Cresta: 3 24 15 72 — Unknown Missile Command: Unknown 5 Monaco GP: 11 4 11 52 — Unknown Rip Off: Unknown 6 Rally-X: 1 6 3 18 — Unknown Unknown Unknown 7 Heiankyo Alien (Digger) 1 4 4 15 8 Pitch In: 0 1 5 7 9 Super Speed Race: 0 2 2 6 10 Sasuke vs. Commander: 0 0 5 5 Space Invaders: 0 ...
[135] [136] [137] Similarly in the United States, in Westchester County, New York, there was a controversial political debate in 1981 over a resolution to place age restrictions on Space Invaders and other arcade games, following complaints that schoolchildren wasted time and lunch money, and went to school late; the resolution drew national ...
The most successful arcade game companies of this era included Taito (which ushered in the golden age with the shooter game Space Invaders [4] and produced other successful arcade action games such as Gun Fight and Jungle King), Namco (the Japanese company that created Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position and Dig Dug) and Atari (the company that ...
While many compilations on home consoles predate Konami Arcade Classics, it is one of the earliest examples of an arcade reissue of classic games, being preceded only by the Namco Classics Collection series. It is also, to date, one of only two arcade compilations with both a coin-op and consumer release (the other being Space Invaders ...
1978 saw the release of new video games such as Space Invaders.The year is considered the beginning of the golden age of arcade video games.The year's highest-grossing video game was Taito's arcade game Space Invaders, while the best-selling home system was the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS).