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Space Invaders (Video Game)
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Dun-DUN-dun-DUN-dun-DUN-dun-DUN...The Trope Maker that spawned a thousand other Shoot 'Em Up games, Taito's Space Invaders debuted in 1978. Although Pong had started the industry, this game revolutionized it, virtually launching The Golden Age of Video Games, establishing or codifying many tropes used in later games, such as Video-Game Lives, progressive difficulty, and a separate score counter for high scores.Essentially, it is a shooting gallery game in which the objects in the gallery shoot back. The player controls a planetary defense laser cannon that can move and hide behind shields, and must confront a moving (and shooting) phalanx of Big Creepy-Crawlies who are attempting to invade the earth.The game was so popular in Japan that the home version was largely responsible for the runaway success of the Atari VCS (later 2600) home console system. It also spawned the medical term "Space Invaders wrist". In United States arcades, it was the first video game to out-gross any and all Pinball machines (the top selling arcade game the year before had been Bally's Evel Knievel pinball). It was the first game in which play could last an open-ended amount of time, given sufficient skill, rather than being timed to a finite clock, and it immediately spawned a host of equally classic imitators, such as Galaxian, Gorf, and the entire top-scrolling rail shooter genre.2002 saw an ill-fated attempt to update the franchise, with a Gamecube/Playstation 2 game called "Space Raiders" released that took the familiar gameplay of the original, but set it on the streets of Earth, with the ships of the original series replaced with large bugs. The game was a critical and commercial flop, in particular for its bizarre attempt to update the story and setting. But then, in 2008, Taito released Space Invaders Extreme for Nintendo DS, PSP and Xbox 360 as part of the 30th Anniversary. The game turns into a fast paced shooting game, omitting barriers, but adding new varieties of invaders with various weapons and shields, and, most importantly, a complex combo system that rewards players with Power Ups, Bonus Stages and One Ups. A sequel was released for the DS in 2009 featuring even faster gameplay. Additionally, Taito also released Space Invaders Get Even for WiiWare, where the invaders, rendered in pixelated 2D in a 3D environment, become Villain Protagonists and attack Earth's cities.In 2009, Taito graced the iPhone with Space Invaders Infinity Gene. The game begins with the original classic gameplay, then the infinity gene takes over and the game gradually evolves into a modern Shoot 'Em Up, as the player gains selectable ships, powerups, and an unrestricted range of movement, while the Invaders themselves enlist large ships, fleets, armadas, and bosses to take you on. There's also the added threat of terrain Collision Damage. You can also load up your favorite music to generate custom levels, similar to Audiosurf. The game gained critical praise, and was later updated to include achievements. It has been ported to the Play Station Network and Xbox Live Arcade, and befitting its evolution theme, it has addressed the Video Game 3D Leap.There was also a less-well-known, though quite good fun, version released by Activision in 1999. It would have been In Name Only but for a very similar gameplay mechanic (most of the time, anyway; it had boss monsters, powerups, and a few levels which were more akin to puzzles than straight shooting galleries). It also contained an unlockable version of the original game."Space Invaders" was at one point used by many non-gamers (in Small Reference Pools style) as a generic term for any game/console, as with "Atari" and "Nintendo" later on, a testament to the game's cultural impact. There are also many references and Shout Outs in other media: for example, the Invaders show up (randomly) as Mooks in Battletoads' infamous Turbo Tunnel Level, and Terry Pratchett in his novel Only You Can Save Mankind (which is about a contemporary 90s space shooter turning out to be taking place in another dimension) has a wrecked Space Invader ship encountered at one point, suggesting that all space shooters take place in the same dimension and the Space Invaders, from the 1970s, were the first wave of aliens.Not to be confused with Spaced Invaders. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: If you beat Infinity Gene in any difficulty higher than Easy, you'll get the message, "To everyone who loves games. And Charles Darwin." | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Space Raiders, which depicted the invasion from a human perspective and allowed players to see the devastation and violence first hand through the perspective of three playable characters that had each lost people in the invasion. | |
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Where It All Began | |
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Where It All Began: The first stage of Infinity Gene plays like the start of the original arcade shooter. The final stage has you face off the last invader, in the same style. (See Nostalgia Level) | |
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Musical Gameplay | |
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Musical Gameplay: In Space Invaders Extreme and Space Invaders Extreme 2, the sounds of firing and enemies being destroyed are in sync with the music and contribute to it. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Flying Saucer: One will appear across the screen every so often and give you a large amount of points if you hit it. | |
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Dare to Be Badass | |
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Dare to Be Badass: "Nagoya Attacks". In Extreme, you have to destroy enemies that have descended right in front of you (without letting them cross the line). In Infinity Gene, you have to make contact with certain enemy bullets that have been shot out (they are harmless in the first second). Your reward for Nagoya Attacks is racking up a huge load of points. | |
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No Plot? No Problem! | |
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No Plot? No Problem!: The Extreme games don't even have a boilerplate "aliens are invading" plot. It's just you versus wave after wave of multicolored aliens to a pumping electronic soundtrack and trippy backgrounds. The soundtrack for the first game does feature narration before each new depth of stages, but it's just word-salad poetry with puns based off the subsequent tracks' titles. | |
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Difficulty by Acceleration | |
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Difficulty by Acceleration: This was a lucky accident. Just rendering all the sprites of the enemies was a heavy load for CPUs of the time, but as the player killed more aliens, the computer was able to devote more cycles to moving the enemies, making them faster and resulting in one of the earliest examples of this trope (although not the Ur-Example—Breakout did it first). | |
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Aliens Steal Cattle | |
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Aliens Steal Cattle: Bonus stages in Super Space Invaders have you defending a group of cows from alien flying saucers that try to abduct them. Wandering cows act as time-increase pickups in Get Even. | |
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Wave-Motion Gun | |
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Wave-Motion Gun: Extreme has the Laser powerup, which lets you fire a laser as tall as the screen, or both screens if they're currently both being used for the playfield. Completing a certain type of Round leads to an extra-wide laser. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The power up items in Infinity Gene are the Newalone particles taken directly from Metal Black, an obscure Taito shooter that has more in common with Darius than Space Invaders. A more direct call back to Darius comes in the form of Boss Warning Siren in the familiar form, "WARNING - A FORMIDABLE ENEMY '[Boss Name]' HAS ENTERED THE BATTLE." Those particles, at least according to Infinity Gene's achievements, are called "Neurons". The phonetic similarity to Newalone cannot be coincidence... The Lock-On ship bears a suspicious resemblance in performance and shape to the R-Gray from the Layer Section/Ray series of shmups... | |
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Ascended Glitch | |
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Ascended Glitch: The aliens speeding up as their numbers decreased. The behavior is the unintentional result of removing objects from memory, which makes rendering the remaining aliens easier for the system. The developers originally wanted to code out the behavior, but after some playtesting, they determined that it added challenge and the perception that the aliens were doubling down as their numbers fell, so they left it in. | |
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Beam Spam | |
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Beam Spam: In Extreme, a few Fever modes you trigger get you short laser bursts of one of three types: a blue laser that pierces through enemies (even Reflector shields), a green laser that does the same but turns left or right 90 degrees upon hitting an enemy, or a similar green laser that splits both left and right upon impact. The green turning laser is also used on the Stage 4 bosses of the single-screen versions (the DS version has a different boss format). | |
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More Dakka | |
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More Dakka: Super Space Invaders, Space Invaders Extreme, and Infinity Gene break the One Bullet at a Time limitation that has stayed with the series for decades with large-scale weapons built for destroying large groups of invaders at a time. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: Yeah, you can shoot through the houses and kill aliens, but it's a poor strategy. Some of the special weapons in Space Invaders X come across as this. Diagonal Burst for example fires a missile which then splits into two smaller projectiles upon impact which cut through invaders. Useful for diagonal rows of identical invaders, but sometimes a projectile will hit nothing if it flies in-between them or if the primary shot was used on the side of a wave. Extreme 2 has Full House Fever, which requires making a three-way bingo, and features jackpots that are worth tons of points. It is also extremely difficult to trigger, because it requires that the Fever bingo board have 7 of its 9 spaces filled and only two configurations are possible because triggering any Bingo Fever clears the spaces used to make them. Starting the wrong type of Round will cause you to waste time trying to time it out or just deal with ruining your Full House progress. It's much easier to make one- and even two-line Bingos, which are much more efficient for your score. | |
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Sound Test | |
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Sound Test: Infinity Gene has this in the form of the unlockable "Sound" menu. ("Collection" menu in the home console version.) You'll need to work for it if you want to hear the whole soundtrack, though. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: You're going to lose eventually. Get Even subverts this in the intro by revealing humanity did ultimately succeed in driving off the invaders. But of course, Get Even's very premise makes this a Double Subversion in the end. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Red aliens give the Bomb power up, which anihilates tight groups of aliens and demolish alien reflector shields with ease. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
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Starfish Aliens: The Invaders resemble octopuses, crabs, and squids. Word of God says the octopus ones were directly inspired by HG Wells' description of the Martians from The War of the Worlds. | |
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Game-Breaking Bug | |
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Game-Breaking Bug: Infinity Gene when it comes to some achievements\trophies: after the game is cleared once, it's trivial to get all the difficulty-based trophies. All you need to do is finish the last level on that difficulty, as the levels you have unlocked carry to all difficulties. The last level is basically the same on any difficulty: either impossible or ridiculously easy depending on which weapon you have equipped, so if you can win on Easy you're set for the other 4 (although you do need to play other modes to unlock the last 2 difficulties). | |
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Lethal Joke Character | |
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Lethal Joke Character: The Classic ship in Infinity Gene. One Bullet at a Time? Yep. Said bullet is a One-Hit Kill on anything, including bosses! | |
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Aliens Are Bastards | |
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Aliens Are Bastards: They presumably want to conquer Earth, and they will destroy the military to do so. | |
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Degraded Boss | |
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Degraded Boss: Good lord, Infinite Gene must have over a hundred of these in the normal game alone. Usually the demoted versions have far less health, but they'll leave depriving you of points if you can't finish them off quickly enough. There's also usually something else going on to differentiate each battle. The Final Boss of Space Invaders Extreme reappeared as the first boss in the sequel, but much smaller. It returns again for the final battle, this time even larger than its appearance in the first game. | |
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Endless Game | |
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Endless Game: Demonstrated with style in this Retro Sabotage game, where you are pitted against a single, slow moving Invader. Shoot it, and another Invader will come in its place. After shooting that one and the next one comes, the game screen starts to subtly zoom out, and you can see a row of 18 Invaders, with one of them coming down to replace an Invader you shot, with yet another one coming to take its place in the row. The screen continues to zoom out, and you can see an identical row of Invaders behind the first, doubling the amount of Invaders at the top of the screen into 36. But the zoom won't stop, and gradually starts to pick up speed. Then yet another row of Invaders comes up, bring the total to 57. Then 72... 90... 108... At this point, hopeless music kicks in as the zoom continues and more and more Invaders are revealed, and it becomes increasingly apparent that they're in some sort of formation... until finally, you see 7,254 Invaders in a formation in the likeness of themselves, easily dwarfing your playfield. All this goes on while the player is still controlling the cannon and able to shoot the single Invader within his playfield. | |
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Game Mod | |
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Game Mod: In 1983, Atari was commissioned by Coca Cola to create a modified version of the 2600 port called Pepsi Invaders where instead of invaders, you shoot letters that spell out P-E-P-S-I. In addition, the game was changed to a Time Attack mode, where the player has infinite lives, but is given three minutes to score as many points as they can. Only 125 copies were given out at a sales convention, making it one of the rarest 2600 games out there, going for a little over $2,000. Many believe this to be the Ur-Example of ROM hacks and an official one to boot! | |
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Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me | |
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Black aliens give the Shield power up, which blocks anything from hitting the player. Keep in mind in "Extreme" if an alien touches the ground the player still dies, whereas in "Extreme 2" the shield will instantly kill any aliens that touch it. Fever mode increases the power of each power up, or grant weapons normally not found in regular gameplay, allowing players to just blast through wave after wave of enemies. | |
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Segmented Serpent | |
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Segmented Serpent: Space Invader Infinity Gene's boss: Centipede. Its head is equipped with a gun which shoots lasers at you. When a segment is destroyed, the boss will split into individual serpents; each with guns on their heads. Destroying a head will cause all pieces to scatter and reform into one serpent again. Once enough segments are destroyed, the boss stops reforming, and the remaining segments start chasing you, all with guns. The Venus boss from Space Invaders X is a snake-like machine that flies around the stage trying to collide with you with each of it's segments contributing to the boss's health. Every once in a while, it will break apart and each segment will bounce around for a while. Did we mention that defeated segments can still touch you? | |
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Bookends | |
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The last stage of Infinity Gene plays exactly like the end of a game of the original, with one invader left. But for some reason, the game ends the same way whether you shoot it down or not, achievement and all. | |
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Nostalgia Level | |
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Nostalgia Level: The last wave of Space Invaders Extreme stage 1 is a recreation of the formation from the original. In Extreme 2, Stages 5-B and 5-C, as well as Extreme Stages 5-A and 5-B, use remixed versions of "invAde yOu" and "Outbreak", the themes of Stages 1 and 2 from the first Extreme game. Stage 0 of Infinity Gene plays exactly like a game of the original for the first few seconds, sans score counters and barriers. It's not like you'll need them, anyway. The last stage of Infinity Gene plays exactly like the end of a game of the original, with one invader left. But for some reason, the game ends the same way whether you shoot it down or not, achievement and all. The Very Definitely Final Dungeon of Space Invaders X, the Alien World, is literally an arcade machine of the original. The final boss is a giant classic invader that shrinks as you hit it. By its last hit, it's like one of the normal final invaders, but smaller and faster. | |
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Boss Rush | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca | comment |
Boss Rush: Stage 3-5 of Infinity Gene, where you fight every single Mini-Boss so far, before fighting the boss. The extra stage X-19 has you fight every boss in the entire game. X-29 has you fight the bosses again, except that they all Took a Level in Badass. Stages 4-5 and 5-5 of the console version has you fight against all the main bosses from the previous world as Minibosses. | |
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Attack Reflector | |
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Attack Reflector: in "Extreme" and "Extreme 2", some aliens come equipped with yellow shields/gates that reflect a shot back at you. It is notably highly resistant to the standard laser power up, but can't reflect bombs. While the shield can block only one shot, the gate can block as many as the player fires at them, but occasionally will open up, or if the player is precise enough, they can snipe a shot through the thin gap in a closed gate. The boss in "Extreme 2's" third stage is based entierly around this, with it's whole body (except for its two weak points) reflecting shots and lasers back at you, while it's minions are equipped with reflecting gates of their own. This is how you defeat the fourth boss of "Extreme", by either reflecting your lasers/shots to the side off of falling aliens (PSP, Xbox, PC), or directly below you (DS) | |
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Nintendo Hard | |
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Nintendo Hard: The original game requires very precise timing and reflexes—clearing even one wave, let alone two or more, is no cakewalk for any newcomers. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The PC version of Extreme's Boss Warning Siren briefly flashes all 5 bosses in sequential order. | |
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Timed Power-Up | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_646addae | comment |
Timed Power-Up: In "Extreme" and "Extreme 2" the player can earn different weapon upgrades by shooting 4 aliens of the same colour (or shooting mini-ufos). The player can also switch back to the standard single shot in order to preserve the power up's timer. Green aliens give the Broad Shot power up, letting the player fire a tight choke of 5 shots. Red aliens give the Bomb power up, which anihilates tight groups of aliens and demolish alien reflector shields with ease. Blue aliens give the Laser power up, which is the most destructive of the four power ups, piercing through small aliens and killing large ones quickly but is easily countered by reflector shields. Black aliens give the Shield power up, which blocks anything from hitting the player. Keep in mind in "Extreme" if an alien touches the ground the player still dies, whereas in "Extreme 2" the shield will instantly kill any aliens that touch it. Fever mode increases the power of each power up, or grant weapons normally not found in regular gameplay, allowing players to just blast through wave after wave of enemies. | |
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Excuse Plot | |
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Excuse Plot: You're fighting aliens. Space Raiders and Space Invaders Get Even are the only games to have any plot beyond that, while Super Space Invaders '91 gives a bare-bones plot at the very least in the Sega Master System version, the action taking place in the year 2073 and you working for what looks like a Private Military Contractor. | |
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Game Over | |
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Game Over: In the first installments, the only way out is death, and it triggers the message word for word. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: In America, the cabinet art involved a bunch of evil-looking, sharp-fur-covered humanoids, rather than the bug-like critters of the actual game. Funnily enough though they would eventually appear in the games, in Space Invaders X the boss of Earth is an especially huge version of these aliens. | |
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_740f59b4 | comment |
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The alien powerups in Space Invaders X are each given a color that matches the alien you got the powerup from: Red: Vertical Burst Blue: Horizontal Burst (left) Green: Horizontal Burst (right) Yellow: Diagonal Burst Silver: A special powerup that depends on the unique alien that resides on the current planet (note that these aliens have various colors, the powerup meter will always be silver). | |
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Pinball Spin-Off | |
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Pinball Spin-Off: A year after its release, Bally released a Space Invaders arcade pinball machine. In early 2008, Taito released a forgettable Space Invaders video game for cell phones. | |
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Stalked by the Bell | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_832c45c4 | comment |
Stalked by the Bell: The PC version of Extreme shows the bonus you'll get from destroying the current boss, and it decreases with every beat of the background music. Stage 4-B in particular is very difficult to get a good boss bonus on, because it has the fastest music in the game. | |
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Super Mode | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_844b6779 | comment |
Super Mode: Getting a Fever in Extreme and Extreme 2 gives you a more powerful weapon. In Extreme if you manage to get a set of two sets of 4 aliens of the same shape as well as color, your reward is generally an even MORE powerful weapon, from a laser that splits in two sideways, to a GIANT laser that ignores reflecting shields. In Extreme 2, your weapon generally fires faster and you can have more shots up at the same time during a fever. However, if you manage to get a one line bingo, you have a bomb with increased AOE and fire rate. A two line bingo earns you a 7 shot boradshot, and lining up the full house bingo gives you the giant laser. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: You get to play as the aliens in Space Invaders Get Even. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: Space Invaders '95: The Attack of the Lunar Loonies hits quirky-status with some absolutely off-the-wall enemies to fight, such as really chubby kissy-faces that split apart Asteroids-style when shot (and your ships are pretty kooky too, with things like a spacefighting toilet). The core game is still intact, by and large (even including the classic "dun-DUN-dun-DUN" from the original game playing in the background behind the music), but also ups the ante with more traditional vertical scrolling shooter segments and battles against equally-weird boss enemies which would be at home in any strange Japanese curio or tchotchke shop. | |
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Mini-Boss | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_8a88ed49 | comment |
Stage 3-5 of Infinity Gene, where you fight every single Mini-Boss so far, before fighting the boss. The extra stage X-19 has you fight every boss in the entire game. X-29 has you fight the bosses again, except that they all Took a Level in Badass. | |
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EveryTenThousandPoints | |
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Every 10,000 Points: In the original, this occurred only once, at one thousand points. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: Infinity Gene does this over the course of the game, as part of its evolution theme. First you get sprites and a static gradient background. Then you get a moving grid background. Then the background becomes rendered in full 3D. Finally, the game substitutes sprites for 3D models. | |
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Artificial Stupidity | |
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Artificial Stupidity: The Invaders' only mode of movement is to drop down, increase speed and reverse direction. Later incarnations gave them different, but still very predictable, tactics. | |
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Shotguns Are Just Better | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_96ecc67e | comment |
Green aliens give the Broad Shot power up, letting the player fire a tight choke of 5 shots. | |
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Luck-Based Mission | |
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Some of the spinning waves of aliens in later stages were changed to no longer spin for the Steam version, as the developers felt that this created too much of a luck-based element. | |
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Difficult, but Awesome | |
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Difficult, but Awesome: The Variable ship in Infinity Gene. It requires some practice to get the feel of the laser swords' angle adjustment, but once you do you can pretty much slice through waves of enemies effortlessly, and bosses will die very rapidly if touched with all four beams at once. | |
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Feed It with Fire | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_9bbd4fca | comment |
Feed It with Fire: In "Extreme 2", aliens marked with 4 red triangles normally die with a single regular shot. If with a bomb power up, they will instead become a large alien. | |
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One Bullet at a Time | |
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One Bullet at a Time: Most games let you only have one bullet on the screen at once. Extreme and Extreme 2 lets you have more if your shot level is high enough or if you're in Fever mode. Infinity Gene outright averts this trope by employing rapid-fire weapons with gusto, with the sole ship that follows this trope having instant-kill (even on bosses!) bullets to balance it out. | |
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Final Boss | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be | comment |
The Final Boss of Space Invaders Extreme reappeared as the first boss in the sequel, but much smaller. It returns again for the final battle, this time even larger than its appearance in the first game. | |
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Variable Mix | |
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Variable Mix: The music in Extreme 2 becomes more subdued during bonus rounds and more intense during fever. | |
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King Mook | |
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King Mook: All of the bosses in the Extreme games are giant versions of the four classical designs. Extreme 2 one-ups this: the design for the Stage 5 bosses take the Stage 5 boss UFO from the first game and make it even bigger. | |
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Non-Standard Game Over | |
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Nonstandard Game Over: In the original games, if an alien hits the bottom of the screen, you lose all of your lives. Subsequent games tend to simply cost you a life. | |
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Large-Ham Announcer | |
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Large-Ham Announcer: The announcer in the first Extreme game has very simple lines and a polite tone, but the Extreme 2 announcer sounds more like a racetrack commentatornote The announcer is Jack Merluzzi, known for being the announcer of F-Zero GX: | |
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Metagame | |
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Shooting an alien at point-blank range results in a x20 "Nagoya Attack" bonus to the points earned for killing it. This led to a very boring Metagame, so the Steam version reduces the multiplier to a mere x2. | |
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Hold the Line | |
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Hold the Line: Early example. Besides trying to dodge projectiles, one must make sure that none of the aliens reach the bottom of the screen, resulting in an instant game over. | |
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"Instant Death" Radius | |
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The player's shield (obtained after defeating 4 black aliens) can block anything, but in "Extreme" it's still curtains if an alien reaches the bottom. "Extreme 2" eliminates this by simply insta-killing any alien that crosses the shield line. | |
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1-Up | |
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1-Up: Extreme and Extreme 2 have lights in the background for shooting aliens in specific patterns: five lights for shooting aliens by the column, three for shooting them by the row, one for shooting enough of the same shape, and one for shooting enough of the same color. Lighting all of these up results in an extra life. You can also get extra lives through Roulette UFOs. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Space Invaders (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Infinity Gene has quite a few: One of the minor bosses extends a pixel-width tendril that makes a few random right turns, then develops a gunpod at the end; you fight it by shooting the gunpod, forcing it to retract along the tendril until it collides with the main ship. In a sense, the fight's with the tendril. The boss's name? Jolyne. The "Option" weapon is an obvious reference to the Options from Gradius, they even move in the same way! The iOS version of Infinity Gene has Downloadable Content featuring Silver Hawk from Darius, Inter Gray from Night Striker, Black Fly from Metal Black, and the R-Gray2 from RayStorm. The title of the game is one to Moonage Dydream by David Bowie. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: The Kamikaze aliens on Venus in Space Invaders X will attempt this if shot once. Their special weapon allows you to do this to them, except you don't die when you use it. | |
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Lead the Target | |
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Lead the Target: The importance of which was also referenced in Futurama, along with Artificial Stupidity. | |
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Bonus Stage | |
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Bonus Stage: In Extreme, shooting a flashing UFO that's triggered by getting two different Features that are red, green, or blue or a red UFO takes you out of the current wave to do a "Round". If you fulfill a specific objective (such as shooting x aliens, shooting y of a specific alien, or picking up z items) before time runs out, you'll be taken to the next wave in Fever mode. Getting hit in a Round won't kill you, but it will either take one second off the timer or increase the target requirement by one (for example, if you had to shoot 12 aliens, you now have to shoot 13), and if time runs out you'll return to the wave you were in with nothing. Extreme 2 still has Rounds, but now they take place during waves instead of taking you out of one; the Round takes place on the top screen while the main gameplay continues on the bottom. | |
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Post-Final Boss | |
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Post-Final Boss: The very last enemy of Infinity Gene is a lone invader that moves very quickly, similar to how the last enemy in the original game moves very quickly. Even if you fail to shoot it down, you'll still get a credit roll. | |
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Achilles' Heel | |
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Achilles' Heel: In both "Extreme" and "Extreme 2", the Laser power up can annihilate all the aliens in one sweep, and is arguably the deadliest power up, but the moment a single reflector shield alien shows up, it takes a lengthy period of sustained fire to penetrate it. In "Extreme 2", aliens equpied with red blast shields can shrug off bombs easily, but are easily eliminated by a single shot. | |
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Action Bomb | |
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Action Bomb: Three of Extreme's invaders, the Bomb, the Invader and the Diver. The Bomb explodes when you shoot it, and the Invader begins heading down to earth if you hit it once (straight down or side-to-side depending on the shape) and requires another shot to destroy it. The Diver will dip down to the lowest corner of the stage and zoom across from one side to the other. If you shoot it, you'll end up getting exploded. | |
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Gaiden Game | |
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Gaiden Game: Groove Coaster, the interface of which heavily borrows from Infinity Gene. Several of the "avatar" items are Space Invaders aliens. | |
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Turns Red | |
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Turns Red: Just try to hit the last enemy. Extreme and Extreme 2 take this up a step: Sometimes, when there's only one enemy left, they'll start to move faster and leave behind a trail of their image (in an allusion to a glitch from the original game). If you can hit this last enemy, you'll get a "Rainbow Bonus". If you take too long, it will slam down to the bottom of the screen and kill you. | |
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Nerf | |
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Nerf: In Extreme: Shooting an alien at point-blank range results in a x20 "Nagoya Attack" bonus to the points earned for killing it. This led to a very boring Metagame, so the Steam version reduces the multiplier to a mere x2. Some of the spinning waves of aliens in later stages were changed to no longer spin for the Steam version, as the developers felt that this created too much of a luck-based element. | |
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Battleship Raid | |
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Battleship Raid: The Giant UFO on Infinity Gene's Stage 3-3. And again on the Xbox 360 & PS3 versions' Stage 5-3 against Ultimate UFO. | |
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Sprite/Polygon Mix | |
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Sprite/Polygon Mix: The home console version of Infinity Gene uses this from Stage 4 onwards. | |
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Downloadable Content | |
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The iOS version of Infinity Gene has Downloadable Content featuring Silver Hawk from Darius, Inter Gray from Night Striker, Black Fly from Metal Black, and the R-Gray2 from RayStorm. | |
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Take Cover! | |
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Take Cover!: Weirdly enough, this game seems like one of the first shooters out there to have the use of cover as a vital mechanic. | |
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Body of Bodies | |
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Body of Bodies: In "Extreme 2", the fourth level's boss is a large jellyfish alien, but later on it splits into multiple smaller jellyfish alien. | |
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Alien Invasion | |
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Alien Invasion: Well, what else could a game named this be about? | |
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Boss Warning Siren | |
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Boss Warning Siren: Extreme has a pretty standard "Warning!" alert. In Extreme 2, the announcer warns you "Don't let the enemy freak you out!" | |
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The Very Definitely Final Dungeon | |
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The Very Definitely Final Dungeon of Space Invaders X, the Alien World, is literally an arcade machine of the original. The final boss is a giant classic invader that shrinks as you hit it. By its last hit, it's like one of the normal final invaders, but smaller and faster. | |
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Theme Naming | |
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Theme Naming: The stages in Infinity Gene are named after biology and evolution terms. | |
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