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Space Invaders
Midway 1978
Our 100th game release at 1UP Arcade is a game who's name says 'arcade game' more than any other. The creation of Tomohiro Nishikado and built originally on his own custom hardware for Taito, who manufactured and released the game in Japan, with Bally/Midway taking care of the United States release - and that's the 1978 version we have here as it celebrates it's 40th birthday! We all know how the game plays, but many may not know that the increasing speed of the invading aliens was not the result of programming, but actually due to a limitation of the games hardware. Nishikado found that as the screen was cleared of enemy invaders, the game would 'naturally' speed up, and so this was kept as a gameplay element! Space Invaders helped to define the Golden Age of video games, kick-off the success of arcades in the late 70's, and was the biggest earning entertainment product of it's time - almost equaling the release of the movie, Star Wars!
Publisher
Midway
Genre
Shoot-em-up
Scores Submitted
19
Hi-Score
9,990 (TAN)
Game Facts & Trivia
It's been said that the release of Space Invaders lead to a Yen coin shortage in Japan due to it's popularity!

Latest Space Invaders Scores SHOW / HIDE
1.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
Space Invaders
Arcade | 1st NW
9,990 x1
x0
TAN | Points: 131
12th Oct 2:43pm
NW
2.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
Space Invaders
Arcade | 3rd 1UP
3,270 x0
x0
RPE | Points: 16
26th Sep 5:35pm
1UP
3.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
3,050 x0
x0
RPE | Points: 2
26th Sep 4:41pm
1UP
4.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
2,760 x0
x0
RPE | Points: 2
26th Sep 4:27pm
1UP
5.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
2,350 x2
x0
RPE | Points: 2
22nd Sep 4:44pm
1UP
6.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
1,990 x0
x0
RPE | Points: 2
22nd Sep 3:37pm
1UP
7.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
1,690 x0
x0
RPE | Points: 2
22nd Sep 3:37pm
1UP
8.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
1,190 x0
x0
RPE | Points: 2
22nd Sep 3:21pm
1UP
9.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
1,190 x0
x0
RPE | Points: 10
22nd Sep 3:21pm
1UP
10.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
1,230 x0
x0
LOU | Points: 3
22nd Sep 3:13pm
1UP
11.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
870 x0
x0
LOU | Points: 2
22nd Sep 3:04pm
1UP
12.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
790 x0
x0
LOU | Points: 9
22nd Sep 2:58pm
1UP
13.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
2,400 x0
x0
PIX | Points: 3
21st Sep 6:41pm
1UP
14.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
1,580 x0
x0
PIT | Points: 10
19th Sep 7:51pm
1UP
15.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
1,060 x1
x0
PIX | Points: 8
8th Sep 1:21pm
1UP
16.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
Space Invaders
Arcade | 1st REV
2,540 x0
x0
RBV | Points: 3
20th Jul 3:01pm
REV
17.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
2,510 x0
x0
RBV | Points: 75
3rd Jul 2:33pm
REV
18.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
Space Invaders
Arcade | 2nd 1UP
7,730 x3
x0
JEM | Points: 30
9th Jun 2:50pm
1UP
19.
Space Invaders - Hi-Score Photo
Space Invaders
Arcade | 1st 1UP
9,970 x4
x0
TAN | Points: 116
9th Jun 12:46pm
1UP


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