Space Invaders

Box front of Space Invaders

Details

Released
October 24, 1996
Developer
Kinesoft Development Corp.
Publisher
GameBank Corp.
Genre
Shooter / Fixed-screen shoot'em up
Players
Up to 2; single player, multiplayer, hot seat
Type
Commercial
Rating
K-A - Kids to Adults
Platform
Windows 9x
Pack
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Manual
Not included

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Screenshots

Title screen of Space Invaders
Title screen
Gameplay of Space Invaders
Gameplay

About this game

This version of Space Invaders is based on the 1994 arcade game Space Invaders DX but lacks the parody mode of that game. What remains is the classic mode that allows the player to choose the type of arcade cabinet (upright, black & white, etc.) as background to the action as well as the versus mode for two players. The versus mode is split-screen, each player trying to survive and eliminate more invaders than the opponent.

The Game Boy version has both one- and two-player modes using the usual Game Boy tones (black and grey). However, plugging the cart into a Super Game Boy allows playing the game in all four cabinet types of the SNES version.

The PC Engine (TurboGrafx) CD version offers an additional "cosmic versus" mode, where the background is composed of anime-style pictures of girls. They also appear in the "omake mode", which is a single-player variant with the same backgrounds.

The WonderSwan version doesn't offer all four cabinet types (only black & white) but keeps the versus mode.

Also known as

スペースインベーダー ジ・オリジナルゲームJapan
太空侵略者China

Collections

Collection
Space Invaders licensees
Playlist
Remote Multiplayer
Theme
Sci-Fi
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