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Space Invaders Gigamax marks the first Space Invaders game to be playable with up to 10 players. [128] Released to celebrate Space Invaders' 40th Anniversary; Distributed by Live Interactive Works; Playable at certain events; Known as Space Invaders Gigamax 20 when playable at Huis Ten Bosch, and was playable up to 20 players.
Space Invaders Part II [a] is a 1979 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Taito. In North America, it was distributed by Midway Games as Space Invaders Deluxe. It is the sequel to Space Invaders (1978). The player controls a laser base that must destroy formations of descending aliens, while avoiding their projectiles.
The second best-selling Atari 2600 game is Space Invaders, [3] a port of the 1978 Taito arcade video game that was programmed by Rick Maurer, which was released in 1980 and became the first video game to sell a million copies. [4]
Invaders! Tandy Corporation: Space Invaders clone Invasion Force: Tandy Corporation: Jovian: 1982 Computer Shack: Kill-A-Pede: Jim Baker and Fred Mayea Centipede clone Lost Colony: Acorn Software Mad Mines: 1982 Magic Carpet: Meta-Trek: 1980 Brandon Rigney III The Alternate Source Meteor Mission II: Big Five Software: Lunar Rescue clone ...
June – Taito releases Space Invaders in Japan. The worldwide success of Space Invaders marks the beginning of the golden age of arcade video games. It sets the template for the fixed shooter genre [18] and influences most subsequent shooters. [19] October – Midway gives Space Invaders a wide release in North America.
Space Invaders had about 8 million daily players in Japan, with daily revenue peaking at ¥2.6 billion or $12,000,000 (equivalent to $56,000,000 in 2023). [49] Space Invaders machines had grossed more than four billion US quarters ($1 billion at the time, or $4.7 billion adjusted for inflation) by 1979. [50]
A sequel for the DS titled Space Invaders Extreme 2 was released in Japan on 26 March 2009, [5] [6] in Europe on 2 October 2009, [7] and North America on 20 October 2009. Space Invaders Extreme was released for Steam in North America on 12 February 2018 to mark the 40th anniversary of Space Invaders. [8]
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