Indie Retro News: Space Invaders 2

We have seen a lot of Area Invader variants through the years, from Havie’s Blitz Primary model of the sport on the Amiga, to our private favorite from Pink/Abyss known as ‘Tiny Invaders’. Properly but once more we have been despatched one other model of Area Invaders so that you can take pleasure in, and it is Jimbo’s Commodore PET sport of ‘PET Area Invaders 2’ ; An up to date and improved model of the unique PET sport from 1980.

Here’s what Jimbo says about his new sport : “Taito launched the unique Area Invaders arcade sport in 1978, and as a highschool scholar Satoshi Matsuoka created a masterpiece reproduction of Area Invaders for the Commodore PET in 1980. Taito up to date the unique arcade sport in 1979 with the discharge of Area Invaders Half II. The up to date sport featured extra aliens, spawning aliens and totally different UFOs. That is an up to date model of the unique PET sport that extra carefully matches the gameplay of that 1979 Taito model”.

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Excellent news Commodore 64 homeowners, as I’ve not too long ago been knowledgeable by Saberman, that Area Invaders 2 has been ported over to the Commodore 64 by Milasoft with authentic PET code by JIMBO. The identical creator who additionally did the Area Invaders 2 PET version proven above. As for the variations from the opposite Area Invaders, it has bases which resemble the 1979 sport, smoother bullet motion, color!, respawning aliens that come to life, and at last animated explosion results. To coincide with this information, offered under is the obtain hyperlink.

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