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The Top 7... alien invasions

Get ready to get your ass handed to you by a twisted menace from across the galaxy... seven times over

Words: Christian Nutt, GamesRadar US
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4. Space Invaders (1978, Arcade)

Credit where credit's due: the game pretty much invented the concept of an alien invasion in gaming. That's how they got away with such a bland title. Anything sounds good in 1978 - particularly when the idea of shooting rows of funky aliens is groundbreaking stuff.

And that's what it was: the ever-pressing danger of destruction, as space-squid rain down from the sky with a menacing buzz-stomp. So there's no story. No sense of what you're actually defending. But when you play - just watching the menace draw closer and closer, somehow avoiding your careful shots - you'll know the true intensity of the earliest attempt by aliens to subjugate our world in a game.

 
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thebigmo1 - 2 months 27 days ago
first not that i care
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thebigmo1 - 2 months 27 days ago
first not that i care
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Smeggs - 2 months 27 days ago
Yay, Half-Life. Y'know, I can't belive this but after play HL1 I belive I liked it more than its sequels O_O...Not that the sequels weren't the bomb.
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The_Tingler - 2 months 27 days ago
Halo 2 - yes, but then they screwed it up but then just going to another boring Halo for the rest of the game.
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BooyaBuda - 2 months 25 days ago
you forgot earthbound
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Predator428 - 2 months 25 days ago
Kind of a short article...
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Marioninja1 - 2 months 21 days ago
I love Half-life 2 and all the sequels, mostly 2, never played the first though
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Princeton12 - 1 month 12 days ago
Ummmm... Let's not forget Resistance and Gears of War!!! I mean come on...
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BooyaBuda - 24 days 22 hours ago
Resistance is not an alien invasion
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ryno - 6 days 1 hour ago
then how do you explain the giant ships in Resistance 2
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