26 April 2008
Blast the space invaders
before they take over your phone!
 Hannu's Creepy Invaders is the classic shoot em up game, just another clone of the very well known Taito's crusty arcade classic Space Invaders.
Maybe it is not as attractive as the motion controlled Accelerinvaders but it I still very interesting homebrew because entire game is completely developed on a mobile phone, all code as well as the graphics have been written on a Symbian Smartphone, Nokia E61i to be precise.
That’s all I have to say about, anyone who has tried Space Invaders before (most of you I guess) will know what to expect here.
Your craft is positioned at the bottom of the screen, with the alien forces attacking from the top in rigid, uniform lines and the whole aim is to clear the entire screen of hostiles while keeping the metallic paintwork of your expensive intergalactic starfighter intact
It is the fully customizable open source game developed in Python and you can modify code and graphics under the GNU license v.3. Actually changing graphics is quite fun as author have implemented that the old way, as an ASCII table.
Space Invaders was designed and programmed by Toshihiro Nishikado for Taito, Japan in 1978 and remains one of the most popular arcade games ever made.
Space Invaders was originally going to be called something completely different as the aliens were originally soldiers which you had to shoot down. They decided that it was politically unwise to encourage killing humans so changed the people into aliens. The game was licensed from Taito by Midway for production in the US. In 1980, the game was licensed by Atari for the 2600 game system and was the first arcade game ever adapted for Atari's home system. The Space Invaders franchise has flourished for more than 20 years and according to Taito, the game has generated more than $500 million in revenues over multiple platforms including coin-op, the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo. It was based on a 8080 CPU, had muffled analog audio, and simulated color by putting a transparent overlay on top of a monochrome display.
Creepy Invaders
Space Invaders was the first arcade game to work it's way out of seedy arcades and into pizza parlors and ice cream shops. The Space Invaders phenomenon stuned conservative adults who were certain the games soured the minds of their youngsters. Residents of Mesquite, Texas pushed the issue all the way to the Supreme Court in their efforts to ban the illicit machines from their Bible-belt community. The game was so amazingly popular in Japan that it caused a coin shortage until the country's Yen supply was quadrupled. Entire arcades were opened in Japan specifically for this game. Space Inavders was released in Japan for the Super Famicom, to my knowledge its the same thing as Space Invaders for Super Gameboy. Many incidents of juvenile crime surrounded the release of this game. A girl was caught stealing $5000 from her parents and gangs of youths were reported to have robbed grocery stores just so they would have money to play the game.
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