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Hobie-wan wrote:

o.pwuaioc wrote:Also, Hobie, what's wrong with birthday parties for video game characters?

I mean the ones like this. I've seen far more elaborate ones, but I'm not searching for them so first hit it is.

Gotta remember blue text, gotta remember blue text...

o.pwuaioc wrote:Gotta remember blue text, gotta remember blue text...

I figured you were joking, but for the benefit of those that haven't seen the pictures of lonely adults having tea/birthday parties for imaginary friends/idol/anime/game characters.

The Space Invaders series as a whole has been great. Let's not forget all the memorable games and their ports:

Atari 2600 -- I bet that sold a lot of consoles back in the day
GB/SNES -- The fact that a fully functioning SNES version of the game was in the GB cart when connected to a SNES was mind-blowing.
N64 -- It was an updated version, but I think it still had its charm.

The best ones are on the Taito Legends 1 & 2 collections. Return of The Invaders, Super Space Invaders 91, Space Invaders 95, etc.

The Space Invaders series as a whole has been great. Let's not forget all the memorable games and their ports:

Atari 2600 -- I bet that sold a lot of consoles back in the day
GB/SNES -- The fact that a fully functioning SNES version of the game was in the GB cart when connected to the Super Game Boy was mind-blowing.
N64 -- It was an updated version, but I think it still had its charm.

The best ones are on the Taito Legends 1 & 2 collections. Return of The Invaders, Super Space Invaders 91, Space Invaders 95, etc.

I love Space Invaders. I've got the original on Atari 2600, the Activision-published reboot, and of course Taito Legends 1/2.

The PC Engine version with the anime girls looks interesting..............
http://youtu.be/nF6WysKJ60Y?t=10m55s

Space Raiders for the GCN is a guilty pleasure of mine. Far from perfect, but I think it was an interesting revival of the franchise. Pretty challenging too, and well worth the three or four dollars I paid.

The only good Space Invaders games I've played are the Space Invaders Extreme games. The rest are just the same old boring as sin Space Invaders.

I haven't played Infinity Gene or Get Even though, which look like quite a departure from the usual formula.

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I have no comment................

Super Mario 3D World, Peach in a Tanooki suit.

Darksiders is crazy boring.

ExedExes wrote:The Space Invaders series as a whole has been great. Let's not forget all the memorable games and their ports:

Atari 2600 -- I bet that sold a lot of consoles back in the day
GB/SNES -- The fact that a fully functioning SNES version of the game was in the GB cart when connected to the Super Game Boy was mind-blowing.
N64 -- It was an updated version, but I think it still had its charm.

The best ones are on the Taito Legends 1 & 2 collections. Return of The Invaders, Super Space Invaders 91, Space Invaders 95, etc.

Lots of good stuff on the Taito Legends collections. I also really love the Extreme games.

Atari 2600 will always be Space Invaders to me though. It's the first one I played before I even knew how to read or write. There was a lot of variety that made it even better than the arcade cabinet. Atari knew Space Invaders was going to be their killer app and they really put a lot of TLC into porting it. It's probably the first truly excellent arcade port really, even if it's not arcade accurate.