Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Yana Sakellion American

Sports and Games Space Invaders turns 30


's been 30 years (from when we saw him in Italy only 29) since we were called upon to defend the Earth from alien invasion by a cannon that moved horizontally on a screen in black and white (the colors were applied to data from a colored band on the screen) and shoot the alien spaceships that were destroyed as they were moving more and more 'fast.

Space Invaders was so successful that in Japan the government was forced to quadruple its output of coins because they were very hard to find, were all in the cab of the coin from Taito

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