How One Man and a Happy Accident Created the Iconic Arcade Game | SPACE INVADERS

Easy to learn. Hard to master. Nolan Bushnell's role for a successful game design.

I love it Mo! Great job on the video. Very professional. Very informative and engaging. I hope that you do more and more of these. Paula and I love your videos! Keep em coming!

LOVED playing Gun Fight

The first time I played space invaders i was too short to even see my missile base at the bottom of the screen, and played by basing my movements watching my shots going up and dodged enemy shots coming down by pure guesswork. You can imagine my first few quarters didn't last long. 😉 Thanks for the memory unlocks!

I did the same kinda sketch on the 80s ! Worked very well !!!
Paper and pen was real devs tools at that time … (they still are but don't say that, it's a secret !)
I discovered pong in 1977, learned to code with a TI-57 few months later, and thus decided I won't be an electronic engineer, but a software developper !
I was 10.

Love this video…love Space Invaders

Space Invaders is one of the key games that shaped video games as we know them.
Like Pong and Pac Man, it is a keystone of the video games industry. Without Space Invaders, video gaming may never have existed.

Space Invaders and Asteroids were the first arcade games I got hooked on…and then one day when I was 11 or 12, I went to the arcade and saw a crowd gathered around this game. It had a catchy theme song and a little yellow dot muncher cruising around a maze. I was absolutely blown away

I think Space Invaders may have been my first arcade game experience. But it was Asteroids that ate my allowance and paper route money. Was so happy when the 2600 version came out!

Great series Mo! How about a Breakout episode?

Thank you, Mo! This video is going into my favorites.

I'm just barely old enough to have played both Pong and Gun Fighter when they were new, but it was Space Invaders that ignited my lifelong love of videogames. It was also my first Atari 2600 cartridge. I never pass up a chance to play on an original machine, most recently just a couple months ago at DragonCon.

I have several tattoos, representing people, ideas, and moments that are important to me and make me who I am. My love of videogames and their impact throughout my life is represented by a Space Invader on my forearm. It's the only tattoo that's visible when wearing jeans and a T-shirt.

Honor your roots, yo.

Great video Mo and lovin' the "Origin" series. Keep up the awesome work!

Why make an AI thumbnail of a game you can remake in 3 seconds on MS Paint…

And the "avatars" too.. my god

Thanks for this. I'm 57 and learned so much.

I always had a hard time believing the Space Invaders claim when I first saw it. IT it was truly a limitation that made things go slower with more things on screen, then when don't he enemies slow down with shots on screen, or the UFO? I also have a hard time believing that they were going to make the game run at the same speed because it would be painfully easy. People would play for hours on one quarter. Even average players would have no problem. Dealing with the last few enemies was really the only difficulty. So even if ht WAS due to the limitations of hte processor, I think it was always going to be programmed for it to run faster.

Great video Mo! I think perhaps one of the first video games I came across was Space War at a Roller Skating rink back in grade school. Our grade school would take kids in the spring towards the end of the school. I couldn't skate for my life but I loved hanging out around the games just amazed by that new fangled technology. I definitely enjoyed Space Invaders and had a T-shirt back in grade school as well.

Afternoon, Mo.👋 Oh wow, a new series, GenX Origin Stories?! Nice! I loved, and still live Space Invaders to this day.
I remember that scrolling car racing game too.
Oh yes, breakout. Was never good at it, although very addictive.
I used to play Space Invaders on my cousin’s Atari 2600 back in the day. After my father gave me an Intellivision, I got uswd to it’s Alternative, Space Armada.
See you again in your next video. PLP PLP 💜💜

No games ever emptied my pockets, they all did!
But my mom got hooked on Super Cobra one afternoon. She must have dumped $5 into that game, thanks to its continue feature.

Cool look back in our history Mo! Thanks! Always love when you can put stuff out for us!

Without that 'bug', the game would be pedestrian and probably a two minute distraction. The speed-up is what makes it iconic. 💯

I'm always fascinated by the inspiration behind this one. You can kind of see how Nishikado started out with Breakout in mind.