I Love Space Invaders

摘要

Their graphics were lousy, their soundtracks infuriating, and they invariably involved oversized fruit—usually as a power source, occasionally as a deadly weapon. Yet when these primitive ancestors of today's computer games first invaded the games arcades in the late 1970s, their simple, addictive powers hooked a generation. Sadly, just a few years later, arcade classics such as Asteroids, Pong and Go Go Mr Yamaguchi—together with similar games developed for early home computers—had been consigned to the loft or simply dumped in the rubbish, outcompeted by the next generation of computer games.