On June 16, 1978, the first edition of Space Invaders was released in arcade halls in Japan. The game would go on to become ...

Board of an Atari’s Space Invaders arcade game machine. Be it quarters or pounds or yen, countless coins have been spent trying to stop aliens invading or hitting a finishing move at the expense of an ...

"Space Invaders" was a massive hit when it arrived in arcades in the late 1970s, leading to a torrent of copycat games.