@cattysplat

My dad told me when he first saw Space Invaders in 1979, he knew the world would never be the same, it would convince everyone to get interested in computers to see what they could do. The old world was so analogue and painfully grounded in printed reality, but digital computer sounds, visuals and games, it's alien digital world offered a new frontier outside of books, moving picture and theatre. The idea that you could even interact with visuals on a screen immediately that would react to your actions that wasn't just a number was incredibly shocking, such hallowed honor was only for important people who controlled national TV networks, cinemas and publishers.

@passthebutterrobot2600

I had no idea that the game speeding up as you killed the aliens was not intended, but was simply caused by faster rendering of fewer items. A lucky accident, I would say. It's hard to imagine it any other way.

@samirpetrocelli6583

Simplicity is a key aspect of genius

@bobdobalina2931

I liked Space Invaders but my true passion was Asteroids. I was so addicted to it that I bought a cocktail cabinet one and played it for six months straight. I could regularly clock it twice or even three times depending on my stamina. It saved me a fortune. I placed it in a college common room and split the income with the students union. 
I was raking in about £80 per week from that one machine. In the end I had twenty six machine and eight pool tables scattered about various college common rooms and I used to rotate them on a monthly basis. 
I rented the pool tables to the student unions rather than split the take because to avoid paying the students would put plastic cups down the pockets to catch the balls.
Those were good old days.

@KenanTurkiye

...and how foolish I was to think life was a long venture, it is as if it was yesterday that I was playing Space Invaders with so much joy.
Enjoying these videos, both good nostalgia and also a gateway to philosophical thoughts. :)  👍

@kkrau788

This was my arcade game of choice in the early '80s.  I recall there was some known algorithm that circulated by word-of-mouth among Space Invader fans by which you could maximize your score by hitting the passing space ships at the top on a certain count of firing.  It was something like you would fire 20 shots to clear the bottom rows of invaders plus path up to the top.  Then you would wait for the space ship to go by and hit it with the 21st shot to get the maximum possible value.  I don't remember if that pattern just repeated or if subsequent counts were slightly different, but you could jump your score significantly by counting your shots as you played.  This video brings back memories...

@MrWobble666

I love your Big Car channel.  But your spin off Small Car channel is fantastic too.  So many interesting little retro features, and so diverse.  A great pair of channels that I look forward to seeing on my subscription list.   Thank you.    ..... I'm firing up MAME now to have a little retro session of Space Invaders.  There may have been licenced versions, copies, etc, but nothing beats the original.

@MsPaintMr

Mark my words, either this channel  or Big Car will explode someday. Your videos are simply too good to be ignored.

@meggalavk3ktt

thanks nice in grained memories coming back after 40+ years played the game for many hours at the local takeaway and got over 10 000 point many times.... ah the miss spent youth.

@Oliverdobbins

I had the Atari 2600 version. I remember one day she stormed into the room and switched it off while my brother and I were playing. We had finally driven her mad with the hours and hours and hours and hours of the sounds of Space Invaders.

@CoryAtRandom

I put a lot of quarters in that cabinet back in the day 😁

@shaunw9270

Space Invaders ! Very interesting 👍

@williamharris8367

In about 1980, I encountered a Japanese Space Invaders arcade cabinet at a Sears store here in Canada. It only lasted there for a short time. I do not recall the details of the art, but it was mostly shades of purple and labeled with Japanese characters.

@herseem

Well, I got tired of space invaders pretty quickly, but I like Galaxians and my favourite from that era was Defender - that had multiple elements that took it to a higher level, such as the long-range scanner, that now every first person shooter game has

@bluetarantulaproductions6179

Space Invaders is one of my favorite arcade games ever created

@samwinchester7844

Thank you for the video. Space Invaders and PacMan were my first introduction to computer games in the early 1990s, it was on an MS-DOS computer. I thought it was magic! With basic hardware and operating system, the programmers had to write very efficient code to use only a few KBs of source code and runtime memory usage. This video is a tribute to the early game designers.

@thomasfrancis5747

Brilliant video with mindboggline definitive detail as ever. I remember being in Las Vegas in 1979 and spent a grand total of 50 cents on slot machines - 2 games of Space Invaders. Could you consider doing a video on a potted history of microcomputers?

@WaterShowsProd

Still my favourite video game.

@michael1234252

Now do a story on Taito's Qix game. I grew up playing Qix on my Gameboy and to this day I still want to play a few rounds on an original 1981 Arcade Cabinet.

@catbreath007

The arcade I used to go to had their table top machined on a nasty purple nylon carpet, I discovered that if you dragged your feet as you walked from machine to machine you'd build up a good static charge ..... and when you touched the metal framework of the arcade game you got a free credit !  The hack quickly spread and the place was soon full of kids dragging their feet.  After a few weeks the owner realised what was going on and then he stood all the machines on plastic sheets 😢