>I wasn't very good - compared to others around me - at these games, but I loved to play them. I did well at the Star Wars game - wireframe, but very realistic - though I've never met anyone else who even heard of it.
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>>>I remember playing these way too often in the early eighties:
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>>>Space Invaders
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>>I was 7th Dan at Space Invaders. Used to have pints lining up on top of the m/c in the pub, till I'd give the game away after c. 5 times round the clock.
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>>There was a different, better, more difficult version than the Taito in the pub next door to that.
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>I didn't know there were more than one version.
I think it might have been this one by Nintendo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_FeverNote the differently shaped invaders and cannon. It was a looooooong time ago but it certainly seems to be it!
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