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Space Invaders, developed and published by Atari in 1980.
"Aliens from space are threatening our planet. Your job is to prevent them from landing on earth by destroying each one with your laser cannon. Just when you think you've destroyed them all, more attacking aliens appear. Choose from 112 games."
I've always had a soft spot for this game and have no problem coming back to it all these years later and see it as the best home version of the arcade original and would even choose to play the Atari game over the Arcade game. There is jus something about it, the gfx and especially Atari sfx that comes together to make one of the best, if not the best arcade conversion for the 2600.
I'm playing the pal game with its green/blue colour scheme which matches the game/cartridge I have owned for the last 35+ years. Kind of makes the original first release look like a prototype. What was the pink command ship all about.
I show the game in 2 player mode at the starting level. Player one set to hard mode. Once all lives a lost I have a brief play at mode five which gives the aliens a double fire rate, lets call it extra hard mode! At the back of the box states, there are 112 modes which makes changes to the gameplay to really amp up the difficulty. Moving shields, wobbly lasers, invisible aliens :O. All this is available in 2 player modes as well including co-op play. You can really get a lot of mileage out of this game and certainly one of the best Atari put out.
Space Invaders, developed and published by Atari in 1980.
"Aliens from space are threatening our planet. Your job is to prevent them from landing on earth by destroying each one with your laser cannon. Just when you think you've destroyed them all, more attacking aliens appear. Choose from 112 games."
I've always had a soft spot for this game and have no problem coming back to it all these years later and see it as the best home version of the arcade original and would even choose to play the Atari game over the Arcade game. There is jus something about it, the gfx and especially Atari sfx that comes together to make one of the best, if not the best arcade conversion for the 2600.
I'm playing the pal game with its green/blue colour scheme which matches the game/cartridge I have owned for the last 35+ years. Kind of makes the original first release look like a prototype. What was the pink command ship all about.
I show the game in 2 player mode at the starting level. Player one set to hard mode. Once all lives a lost I have a brief play at mode five which gives the aliens a double fire rate, lets call it extra hard mode! At the back of the box states, there are 112 modes which makes changes to the gameplay to really amp up the difficulty. Moving shields, wobbly lasers, invisible aliens :O. All this is available in 2 player modes as well including co-op play. You can really get a lot of mileage out of this game and certainly one of the best Atari put out.
