Space Invaders (PS1) Expert Difficulty (49:30)

Author's comments:
Welcome to Planet Earth. Aliens are taking over. Get in your tank and shoot them down!

Space Invaders Speed Run Rules: * Completed on "Expert" Difficulty * Single Session * No special codes * Suffers Deaths

Space Invaders originally was an arcade game released in the late 1970s, unleashed to the world and loved by people all over. This game takes the mechanics of the game and packs it in with tons of new stuff to keep it interesting.

Expert Difficulty incorporates 10 planets. Each planet starts with 5 waves of aliens, then a bonus UFO shooting level, then 5 more waves. After that you face a giant boss whose life you must drain to nothing. After that you move on to the next planet.

Each planet (after Pluto) also features an "alien of the day" that you see only on that planet. Each one has a different appearance, attack, and gives you a different special weapon. Some are quite stupid (like the boomerang attack on Saturn) while others rock your socks (like Tank Kamikaze on Venus).

After beating each boss you receive a time for that planet (so loading times are not included). Occasionally the game lists a time as X:X. For example, Mars had a time of 6:9. If the level is completed with a 0 in the ten-second digit, it doesn?t display it. It does if it?s in the seconds? digit (Saturn was 4:40 which is displayed in full).

Expert is a touch harder than Normal, being that the aliens move faster, and 2 new planets are added after the end of the normal game (Mercury and Alien World). As like the other planets, there are unique aliens on these worlds with unique specials.

After beating the game on Expert, what you unlock is Maniacal Difficulty. As the name suggest, playing on this level of difficulty is crazy! * Final Score | 49:30 | 105% | 4 deaths | 23 lives left - 2:29 improvement - 6 less deaths

This run is dedicated to all those who perished in 1978.

This run is Copyright (C) 2007 Nicholas "Sir VG" Hoppe and is allowed for downloading and private viewing. Permissions for hosting have been granted to Radix and Speed Demos Archive. Public viewing of this run is prohibited without prior permission from the creator. The selling or distribution of this run for profit in any way, shape, or form including (but not limited to) selling on eBay and television for profit prohibited without prior permission from the author. Any violation of the above listed may result in legal action. Space Invaders is Copyright (C) 1999 Z-Axis and Activision.

Sir VG, signing out.

FIN

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• space
• invaders
• speedrun

[superrobertking18]

do you have to be on expert to get past Earth? Because mine stopped at Earth

[SirVG]

@superrobertking18 Yes. On Normal, the game plays from Pluto to Earth, while Expert and Maniacal difficulties plays Mercury and Alien World after that.

[josipbabok2]

are you going to do Maniacal difficulty (as you wrote in description difficulty after expert)

[SirVG]

@josipbabok2 I don't have any plans on doing Maniacal difficulty. I'd like to do a 2P Normal & 2P Expert someday though, but I need to find somebody who would work on this with me.

[cakesonme818]

Hey SirVg are you playing this on the pc? And if, please give the download link I would really appreciate it. :)

[SirVG]

@cakesonme818 nope.  This is for Playstation. If you want to find it, I'm sure Amazon or eBay has some copies.

[meeko66]

Not Bad but i always finish with 29-30 lives so i am the BOSS

[garuga0777]

when i was little, we called the first boss the stapler

[theqman24]

my older cousins and brother playing PS1 at 11:00 in the night at age 6? So many memories from this.

[Thomas11611]

this is my childhood favorite. Seriously man, where can I get this game again.

[Thomas11611]

this is my childhood favorite. Seriously man, where can I get this game again.

[pissassguy]

@SirVG I would be happy to help you, ive made it to the Earth boss on expert on my own, we can arrange that if you want, write me back :/

[cakesonme818]

@BamzookiMan130 Alright, thanks :p

[BamzookiMan130]

@meeko66 I once ended with 23 lives.

On MANIACAL.

[BamzookiMan130]

@cakesonme818 Get a ROM.