Atari pioneered the home video gaming industry in the 1970s with their 2600 console, which brought (at the time) state-of-the-art games like "Space Invaders," "Pole Position," the "Pac-Man" series ...

The first widely-played video game wasn’t Pong, Donkey Kong or Space Invaders. It wasn’t made by Nintendo or Atari. Imagine a ...

The 1978 Atari Space Invaders game is one of the most legendary video games of all time. Developed by Tomohiro Nishikado, this iconic shooter game challenged players to defend Earth from rows of ...

Then the Space Invaders conquered America.” Nishikado had no idea this would happen, but his work and those of other pioneers at Atari and elsewhere drove the industry inexorably (and cyclically ...

In 1980, Atari planned to release a tabletop console ... The Cosmos could play eight or nine preloaded games, including "Space Invaders," "Sea Battle," "Football," and "Superman." ...

In the video game Space Invaders Extreme 2, a player has to fire weapons to obliterate aliens attacking Earth. These extraterrestrials move fast, raining down from the top of the screen and ...