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In July this year it will be 40 years since the ultra popular video game Space Invaders first hit the arcades:
Arcade historians know that 1978 was a big year in arcade games and Taito knows it too since they released a game that year that put them on the map. Unfortunately Taito hasn’t done anything earth-shaking in the past few years but they will certainly be celebrating the 40th anniversary of Space Invaders throughout 2018. They’ve started by launching this special website commemorating the original; if you frequent modern arcades then you likely will have come across the new Space Invaders Frenzy by Raw Thrills.
For the record, the arcade version was released in July of 1978.
Any other Soylentils remember when this first arrived in the arcades?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by nitehawk214 on Thursday January 04 2018, @07:46PM
I guess due to my age I always think the video game revolution happened later. I can remember playing pong with my mom in the early 80's. I was born in 1978, but we were poor as fuck so were on the trailing edge of things. The 2600 came out a year before I was born, but our first one was the slimline 1986 model (nice and cheap because it was post video game crash of 1983). Our first NES was well after that (though pre SNES), it was the one with a single controller and not bundled with Mario/Duck Hunt.
Still, I can proudly say I am a rather old 2nd generation gamer.
Also, I don't recall seeing a 40th anniversary of the 2600 article on Soylent last year, which is a much bigger deal.
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