Space Invaders is a classic arcade video game released in 1978 and manufactured by Taito in Japan. The game was later on licensed for the United States by Midway. The game is one of the first shooters in the history. The target is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser of cannon and to earn as many points as possible by the end of the session. The designer got inspired from Breakout, The War of the World and Star Wars and had to design custom hardware and development tools.
The game is considered a pioneer and helped expand the video game industry from a novelty to a global successful business. Due to its popularity, the game caused a temporary shortage of 100-yen coins in Japan. The total was about 2 billion US dollars by 1982 and by 2007 the game earned over 500 million in profits. The game is ranked by Guinness World Records as the top arcade game ever.
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The game was a source of inspiration for several other games and was later on ported on other platforms. The game has been also parodied in multiple TV shows and was part of video game exhibitions.
The game is a 2D fixed shooter game. The player controls a laser cannon with a horizontal movement across the bottom of the screen and fires at descending aliens. The player has to defeat five rows of eleven aliens. For each alien defeated, the player earns a number of points. As more aliens are defeated by the player, their movement and the music become faster. The loop can continue forever, but at some point in time the aliens will become so fast that the player will not be able to continue.
The alien invasion is successful when the aliens reach the bottom of the screen. While the player tries to defeat them, the aliens try to destroy the cannon by firing at it. At some point in time some mystery ships will move across the screen and will offer the player bonus points if he manages to destroy it.
More than 300.000 Space Invaders arcade machines were sold in Japan, and more than 60.000 were sold in the U.S. The price range for a machine was from $2000 to $3000. The game is the best-selling video game and the highest-grossing entertainment product of its time and is most of the time compared with Star Wars, which grossed around $500 million in movie tickets. By 2007 the game brought Taito profit of over 5 million U.S. dollars.
The arcade game was rated by GameSpot users with an average of 8.5, but other variants and releases on different platforms were rated way higher.