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Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and programmer, and is now involved in a number of aspects of computer-game development.
The first was Space Invaders Part II in 1979; [115] [116] it featured color graphics, an attract mode, new gameplay elements, and added an intermission between gameplay. [117] According to the Killer List of Videogames, this was the first video game to include an intermission.
Tomohiro Nishikado (西角 友宏, Nishikado Tomohiro, born March 31, 1944) is a Japanese video game developer and engineer.He is the creator of the arcade shoot 'em up game Space Invaders, released to the public in 1978 by the Taito Corporation of Japan, often credited as the first shoot 'em up [1] and for beginning the golden age of arcade video games. [2]
The game gets harder as the number of asteroids increases until after the score reaches a range between 40,000 and 60,000. [11] The player starts with 3–5 lives upon game start and gains an extra life per 10,000 points. [12] Play continues to the last ship lost, which ends the game.
It was also the first game to confront the player with waves of targets that shot back at the player and the first to include background music during game play, albeit a simple four-note loop. [15] Space Invaders was an immediate success in Japan, with some arcades created solely for Space Invaders machines. [14]
The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite". Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden-line removal. [4] It added graphics and twitch gameplay aspects to the genre established by the 1974 game Star Trader. [5]
Starflight is a space exploration, combat, and trading role-playing video game created by Binary Systems and published by Electronic Arts in 1986. Originally developed for IBM PC compatibles, it was later ported to the Amiga, Atari ST, Mac, and Commodore 64.
Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others.It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.