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@@yousefslimani99 you're welcome my friend.

You lost Sega Genesis / Megadrive version named "Space Inviders 91/92 (name changed realise date in USA / EU / JAPAN)

are you a gameplayer?

For sure. In the old days, there were a few game sounds that filled the air in the arcades: Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Galaxian, Berzerk and a handful of others. Hard to find such an arcade nowadays. :(

Not that well-known nowadays.

to every generation except zoomers it is@@PiroKUSS

@@ianswift3521 No, it isn't.

​@@ianswift3521Nah, he's unfortunately right... Most people aren't even aware that this game is a pretty long lasting franchise with some really good(Extreme, Extreme 2, Infinity Gene and Playstation) and some really bad (Space Raiders) sequels/reboots.

And to add to my previous comment, I'm a zoomer AND a fan

It also included Galaxians

@@PiroKUSSalso this warp zone, and this Ship that you had to beat.

I remember The 8-Bit Guy mentioning the C64 version of the game in a video about speech synthesizers

There's a really good clone called "Space Raiders" made by Psion and published Sinclair Research themselves (I think). kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7N_eZynr9SdmIE.html

I wanted to include only official versions. If I make video of the Space Invaders clones I'll add TI Invaders.

@@retrosutra Sure why not! try to make space invaders clones please!

I say the GBA's classic mode was the Worst S.I. recreation ever, such as the enemies movements, yuck!

@@Nestalgba92023 its not as bad as the nes/gameboy variants tho, the nes/gameboy ones had unidentical/shrinked sprites and overall ugly presentation which pretty much ruins the sense of authenticity and appeal.

​@@antarcticpenguin1151Nah, GBA's classic mode is worse because it doesn't even play properly. Those versions you mentioned at least do that

​@@Nestalgba92023Shame, because the main GBA game was actually good

I also wonder why. I have only found unofficial versions for those systems.

Maybe there were so many clones they thought it unnecessary

@@retrosutra Dunno maybe the license right was too much expensive (potential market too small) for some publishers to bother

@@federicocatelli8785 There was ONE home computer conversion. The Atari 8-bit computer line got one where the titular invaders enter the field from a rocket on the side of the screen. Thus, we know that Atari had the home computer license for Space Invaders in America at the time. And they weren't interested in releasing games for OTHER PEOPLE'S hardware... except when they were. Their third-party publishing arm, Atarisoft, was formed in 1983, which is late enough that Space Invaders wasn't really a hot property. And Atarisoft was shut down fast enough that they didn't get very far through their available licenses(they have a lot of officially-announced games that never shipped). But by god, they ported Centipede, Donkey Kong, and Pac-Man to just about everything. Fortunately for Invader lovers everywhere, there was no shortage of homages, clones, and rip-offs. My first Space Invaders was actually Texas Instruments' clone, TI Invaders.

Yes, I'll do. Thank you!

Austrian Painter vibes.

I'm sorry you miss it. The selection of versions was difficult. I think I excluded all those that added new mechanics and this version was one of them (although I had the footage captured).

Pepsi Invaders Part II And yes, there was a secondary fire

Lol

Muchas gracias por la información, Xavi. Desconocía esos clones.

There was also a type-in from ANALOG Computing, Basic Invaders, that was a better version than the Atari official(more game options, roughly comparable to Deluxe Invaders).

Prime example of a lazy port on Taito's port. Just a cheap port of their MSX version, which in itself isn't as good as the SG-1000 despite running on identical hardware. Guess Sega could just port this game better than Taito themselves.

@@diskyboy86 ngl, I love the SEGA SG-1000 version it's really a nostalgia version!!

I was going to say the sound circuit was discrete logic, probably with a 555 at its heart. But that would've been very wrong, and I'm glad I fact-checked myself. It apparently actually used a TI SN76477, which was brand-new at the time(it came out earlier the same year). It should probably be noted that this chip is not directly related to the much more famous TI SN76489. I'm not sure how useful an MCS-48 would've been as a sound generator. Kinda odd that I've never heard of Intel producing any sound hardware, actually. They seem to have stuck to boring, strictly-functional chips.

Because we are only covering official versions here. Sometimes we mix the official ports with the clones but there are too many Space Invaders clones and I believe it's better to do a separate video in this case.

@@retrosutra I see....Thank You.

I wanted to show only the versions of the original Arcade, with exactly the same core mechanics and I guess I thought it was a slightly different version at the time...

New Age was a whole different experience.

It seems to be a riff off of the somewhat-famous "Pepsi Invaders" featured earlier in the video. You play a dude throwing cans of Pepsi at invading Coke and Sprite cans. I assume the top row invaders are also a Coca-Cola product, but can't identify it offhand.

There were different versions of the Arcade and the original black and white version is called the SV version (although I don't know why really).

"TV revision 1 seems to be the earliest set in MAME, with the fewest number of changes. It's likely that an undumped SV revision 1 set, if it exists, would predate this set. SV revision 2 removes the diagnostic routine and is the first to make the wall collision change. The Midway version is almost identical to SV revision 2, except that the subroutine that draws the Taito Corp copyright on the title screen has been dummied out. TV revision 2 fixes a few bugs but keeps all of the other code from the first TV revision. SV revision 3 applies the code changes from TV Revision 2 to SV Revision 2. SV revision 4 adds five digit score support."