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Space Invaders was released for the Atari 2600 on March 10, 1980. [17] It became a high seller in 1980, earning Atari over $100,000,000. The console version of Space Invaders, along with popular arcade games Asteroids (1979), Missile Command (1980) and Battlezone (1980) would move Atari to a growth of $512.7 million for the year. [11]
Space Invaders for the Atari 2600 had sold 6,091,178 cartridges by 1983, [58] ... A spaceship aiming at the Puma logo, with clear references to Space Invaders.
Space Invaders: Space Invaders: Rick Maurer (original), Christopher Omarzu (Pepsi Invaders) March 1980: Licensed by Taito. Retooled as Pepsi Invaders for Coca-Cola in 1983. Space War: Space Combat: Ian Shepard October 1978: Sprint Master - Bob Polaro March 1989: Stargate - Bill Aspromonte (programmer), Andrew Fuchs (sound) June 1984
When Atari brought Space Invaders to its 2600 console in 1980, it became the first-ever arcade-to-home console adaptation, boosting console sales and cementing the game’s place in pop culture ...
[4] [6] Space Invaders and several of its arcade sequels are often included in video game compilations released by Taito. It inspired numerous other games. [7] Many companies created clones that copied its gameplay, with more than a hundred Space Invaders clones released for various platforms by the early 1980s (such as Super Invader and TI ...
Atari was an early pioneer in the video game industry.In fact, it virtually created the industry with its introduction of the arcade game Pong.The brand name "Atari" was used for many years and applied to several other entities that developed products ranging from arcade video games to home video game consoles to home computers to video games for personal computers.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
Star Ship is a first-person space combat simulator video game programmed by Bob Whitehead and published by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari VCS was released on September 11, 1977.