Space Invaders

[A Wrigley]

My rendition of a famous games poster.

[gwpriester]

Funny.

[Antspants]

Very nice!.

As a teenager I remember that this was the game that changed everything when it was released in the UK arcades, clubs and pubs. Upto then we had to make do with the 'Binatone' home console which basically had around 10 variations of a square dot moving around the screen!!

There was a flaw with the original space invaders game: the score only had 4 digits so the highest dislpayed score was 9990 and would basically reset to zero if you were to carry on. I think kudos was earned through how many times you could 'clock' it. A couple of years later 'super invaders' was released complete with 5 or 6 zeros for the high-score and new multi coloured screen (ie different colours of film stuck across the screen!)