Space Invaders (Taito 1978)

[fabricius69]

si!!!!!!!e quello originale...della mia infanzia 50 o 100 £ a partita.

[ThumbsUpGuy16]

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[amorall171]

LOL PWND at the end =P

[wrabit79]

i remember when little i used to spend a fortune on this..now i have it for free but it ain't the same

[Jonwood74]

The Grand Daddy of 'em all....some may argue that either Galaxy Game, Computer Space or Pong is the grand daddy. Granted they came first but they were not the mega hit that this game was.

[sammy2trees]

God damn this brings back memories. I haven't gazed into one of these screens since the mid 80s! Those colors, the sound affects...all that's missing is the sound of other video games in the background, people talking, the smell of cigarettes and cloves, cute chicks hanging around. I used to love the arcades!

[Huskerboy18]

The music is a descending phrygian tetrachord.

[randomairsoft4]

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[berserker40258]

Oh how I used to love that game. I wouldn't play it over call of duty though.

[TweedProductions]

Yes, let's get rid of all that nasty 3D rendering and those complex games with plot lines and scripting. Let's go back to playing nothing but space invader and pacman clones because after all it only caused the video game industry in America to literally die from 1983 to 1985 and almost killed it completely. Nostalgia is great, but don't let it cloud your vision.

[Kr8mer]

@TweedProductions Never let the truth get in the way of a good story eh.

[TweedProductions]

@Kr8mer Then enlighten me to what actually caused The Crash, if it wasn't an oversaturated market filled with too many systems with poorly produced clones and ports.

[majors0lee]

I remember the Atari 2600 Space Invaders tournaments with my neighbors...in '81 or '82. nice game...until Galaga came out

[wiredtvcraze]

Haven't heard those sounds for a long time. I never could hit that saucer. I remember playing it when it first came out to the arcades. What a time that was.

[Frogstar64]

Hi Can you please explain why you have posted a Taito Space Invaders for a Balley machine? Like it says on ther Bezel?

[LedWilde]

I'm almost 32. I think the best games were made in the 70's & 80's. By the mid most 90's, games just didn't seem as fun. Mortal Kombat was the last Arcade game I really liked. Occasionally there are some good games on Xbox or Wii. Just because there is technology to make games look fancy or complicated doesn't mean they always have to. I think there are game possibilities that haven't been explored because they avoid trying to make games simple these days. Fun is what's most important.

[McLarenMercedes]

@LedWilde

The thing is back then they broke new ground and pushed the envelope of development. It was all new and uncharted territory.

Today it's way too often the visuals that impress the players rather than the concept or gameplay.

[LedWilde]

@McLarenMercedes Exactly!

[TKGB2006]

I was not born around the time this game came out but I bought Taito Legends for the PS2 and when I played this game, I could not put it down. It was great.

[DJCandyManMike]

@TKGB2006

Glad to hear it! I was born the year Space Invaders came about, but haven't seen it in an arcade in a long time. It would be great to see it again someday.

[dkempf1]

Feelin the nostalgia!!..thanks...great post...!!

[kit763]

The world record is 56,000 although I have gotten 800,000 myself. I find it real easy. Just always shoot out the coloumn furest left. and on the first round leave 1 invader left, and destroy your own barriers. Then take out the last one and repeat. It does get tiring after a while. And it's hard to use the bathroom at the same time.

[ScrewAttackChina]

whats the world record?

[nyc136]

This is the first one I eva remembered dat got me off pinball machines. lol CLASSIC!!!

[Pennaz91]

The "song" in the background makes me fell pretty oppressed! It looks like the game is saying "You'd better shoot them quick... You'd better do it faster... If you won't make it... You know what will happen... Don't you?... Don't you?... Don't you?..."

[MetroidMan95]

classic

i once got 10,000 points and the game froze and made a strange noise

[DanJ30]

After 32 years this one still plays great!

[poaeypark]

cherokee red man .

[gljsd]

I rememner when there was only 2 aliens left, that they would move at the same speed as the cannon, and when there was just 1 alien left it would move twice the speed as the cannon. The aliens on the online games don't move at the same speed. There's nothing like the original.

[genegene002]

LOL! I rember standing on a milk create when I was a kid playing this game! What fun it was for the time! I still gotta rate it one of the most frustrating games of all time! It will piss you off!

[eggboy1]

@genegene002 It pissed me off because I moved the joystick but nothing happened. Not sure if that was early technology or an actual design to make you lose your money faster.

[SmokePropaganda]

this game was so epic it caused a Quarter Shortage in Japan when it was released.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

If only I had a 2-liter of Shasta and a Rush mix-tape....

[wileycoyote64]

@NinjaGhostScorpion My brother always did the last level for me!

[gmccord1970]

@NinjaGhostScorpion ....on cassette or 8 track ;-)

[skipplet]

@NinjaGhostScorpion And no date on a Saturday night.

[abbyroyer66]

que recuerdos me trae, estaba en la superior cortaba clases para jugarlo

[gennirvana]

k vivan los clasicos carajo!!! pobres idiotas los k critican a este juego, sin esta joya no tendriamos los juegos de ahora, no pense que podria encontrar el space invaders original de taito que aportazo bro!!! grax for the video bro!!! space invaders forever!!!

[michaelda94]

viejo prefiere esa basura que otros juegos modernos

[michaelda94]

que juego tan deprimente

[ABRANANAS]

deprimente tu vida, este juego es un clasico

[tetsunosuke90]

bring back the classic arcade games no more crappy 3D games (:

[dumbasspauldentonkin]

@tetsunosuke90 funny how a 20+ year old game contains more charm than most of the stuff released nowadays... though the same thing could be said about all classic games. But Space Invaders is special.

[ianman77]

n00b

[Samjapa]

OMG!

30 years past!

I'm remember the space invaders on my childhood!

I can't enter in the arcade houses. Because mine tender age. In 1978!

I remember this sounds.

[JackOSUrulz]

Could you spell any better back then? Good Lord. EPIC FAIL.

[classof77]

Man, I can SMELL the pizza.

[mfuji00001]

amen shakeys pizza after school & all weekends XD

[Bugstomper2]

I sunk many a quarter into this video game. Notice, they've never made the same deep sound on home video versions?

[kurwinsky]

That's so annoying! All this flash versions are praising to be the best copy of it! But their sound study sucks!

[pberberich]

MAME is your friend. Google, learn, & download... your efforts will be rewarded =)