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The home versions were released as Space Invaders - The Original Game. Other names include: Space Invaders XL on the Nuon, simply Space Invaders on the Game Boy and Sega Saturn, and Space Invaders 2000 and Space Invaders 1500 on two PlayStation re-releases. The home releases feature variants of the two-player mode.
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).
A Space Invaders game for the Atari Jaguar was worked on by Virtuality Entertainment, which would have featured support for the unreleased Jaguar VR peripheral; however, the project never entered full development beyond reaching pre-production stages, with the only remaining proof of its existence being a game design document. [127] [128]
Technology journalist Jason Whittaker, in The Cyberspace Handbook, places the beginning of the golden age in 1978, with the release of Space Invaders. [1] Video game journalist Steven L. Kent argues in his book The Ultimate History of Video Games that it began the following year, when Space Invaders gained popularity in the United States [2 ...
1978 Leo Christopherson 80-NW Publishing Co. BASIC/ML hybrid Ants!!! [7] [8] 1979 Brian Rotolante [9] Synergistic Solar Play: one queen ant presides over the top of the board while her opponent queen rests at the bottom, and each queen gets to produce offspring each turn to fight in the center of the screen. [10] Apple Panic [11] [12] 1982 Yves ...
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.
Space Invaders Virtual Collection [a] is a 1995 compilation video game developed and published by Taito in Japan for the Virtual Boy. It includes direct ports of the arcade game Space Invaders (1978) and its sequel Space Invaders Part II (1979), alongside 3D remakes that take advantage of the Virtual Boy's hardware capabilities.
Taito designer Tomohiro Nishikado, who had developed Gun Fight previously, was inspired by Atari's Breakout to create a shooting-based game, Space Invaders, first released in Japan in 1978. [14] Space Invaders introduced or popularized several important concepts in arcade video games, including play regulated by lives instead of a timer or set ...