Comments on: Epic Win: Space Invaders

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:36:28 +0000

great game, made me think for sure of alien invasions to earth.

By: dw

dw — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:33:08 +0000

I borked my Atari’s controllers playing this, then I got the MS-DOS version “Space Commanders,” which I played in between rounds of “Obliterator” and “Street Fighting Man”

By: crazy freak

crazy freak — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:45:55 +0000

You forgot about the Nintendo 64. EPIC WIN. And before people start saying its not nostalgic, it says that anything pre-200 can be counted as nostalgic.

By: pat

pat — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:55:20 +0000

Ah, I remember my eyeballs feeling like boiled onions… I figured out that there was an immune spot on the atari… I could plonk myself there, and although i wouldn’t hit anything, I wouldn’t be hit. So I could go to the immunity spot when I needed a good blink.
Kept on working on it until the day I hit a million points, then retired

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:21:00 +0000

Tank game!!!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:17:23 +0000

About four as far as I’m concerned!

By: Kimsuela

Kimsuela — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:31:40 +0000

I miss my Atari! My sister is getting me something from Ebay that is “a really cool present. Something you used to have when you were a kid.” In my heart and hopes, I’m wishing for an Atari. I LOVED Space Invaders, ET, that tank game, and ~gah~ there was another one, but I can’t remember the name.

By: SINNYC

SINNYC — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:24:47 +0000

On our old Atari – if you flipped it on and hit reset at the same time, you could fire two lasers at once. If I did that each time (yeah, it was sort of ‘cheating’, but they built that device in so why not use it?) I could flip the game each time I played. Of course, you only needed 10,000 points, I think… Good times and lots of sore thumbs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:57:17 +0000

overreaction?

By: jtalley1

jtalley1 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:33:17 +0000

Jaguar was definitely not win.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:17:38 +0000

Loved those old games! Keystone Capers, Missle Command, Defender, Armor Ambush…I could go on, and on.
Better commercials out there from the Atari era. There’s even one with the late, great Phil Hartman pimping Activision Ice Hockey.

By: Matador

Matador — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:37:00 +0000

Nostalgia win, commercial FAIL

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:23:47 +0000

I love Atari’s slogan “No one can beat us at our own game.” XD Look at em now!

By: invertedspear

invertedspear — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:25:13 +0000

the ad is for Atari, not space invaders itself, Ataris (if that’s the proper plural form) were much more epic win than space invaders itself was.

By: JohnnyK

JohnnyK — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:20:35 +0000

I used to love the fact my local pub (Bar for Americans ) – the Cadbury House in Bristol – used to have a Space Invaders machine, as well as a couple of pinball machines, great days…

By: j-j-j-j

j-j-j-j — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:48:07 +0000

lol how are those games educational? well im only youn so i never experienced those games.

By: Ravenhull

Ravenhull — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:50:56 +0000

Anybody notice that the picture is Breakout, not Space Invaders?

By: JanetCanHas4Kittehs

JanetCanHas4Kittehs — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:27:05 +0000

I love Space Invaders! Indeed, I loved my Atari!! NO ONE could beat me at Missile Command, which was my favorite! Lots of fun games they had, all bringing innocent merriment! A lot healthier for everyone than today’s games that allow young people to carelessly slaughter everyone in sight without a care in the world!

By: Wolfram

Wolfram — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:38:06 +0000

Last i checked, Pac-man for Atari FAILED miserably

By: mcclaud

mcclaud — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:16:04 +0000

Man, there were like rip-offs to Space Invaders as well.

Space Armada on the Intellivision, for example.

If you want to bring up things that were epic win, you should bring up all the old game systems. Intellivison, Commodore 64, Jaguar, etc.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:11:44 +0000

So the games ranged from £14.95 – £29.95 – and I’m sure Space Invaders was at the high end. In 1980, when the game was released, the exchange rate ranged from $2.20 to $2.40 to the pound – making the game cost $65-75 in 1980 dollars (which is probably around $150 today). Yeesh.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:57:32 +0000

Man, this whole site is lame. I mean sure there are many lame sites, and the internet has a place for lameness, but need they be listed on the icanhascheeseburger bar?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:30:18 +0000

I love that he gets to 50 and hasn’t discovered anything more advanced

Ahhah, but I guess it’s good that he’s easily entertained

For 40 years.

How much poop is on that sofa o _o

By: D.R.

D.R. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:56:22 +0000

It was really simple. It just went on and on forever, with the aliens just getting faster and faster… It had such a fatalistic feel, like you couldn’t beat it but you were the only thing standing between the people of Earth and total splat. How many levels did it go, anyway? Well, without games like this there would be nothing, so hats off to them.

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:42:23 +0000

Its just that adictive

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:41:12 +0000

This should be an ad for WoW

By: monsieur roquefort

monsieur roquefort — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:23:26 +0000

look at de bigger pix: no ATARI, no invaderz.

By: zski

zski — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:11:38 +0000

I wuz better at TailGunner

By: DocM

DocM — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:20:00 +0000

Taik uz to ur leaderz win

By: d0.0b

d0.0b — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:03:32 +0000

Fail Invaders

By: LoLcat

LoLcat — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:55:21 +0000

I iz in ur game………
Invading ur space

By: M4sT3r

M4sT3r — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:01:23 +0000

First^^
Hehe had it on my old Nokia