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An edition of Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982)

Invasion of the Space Invaders

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This is a review, history, tips, hints, and strategy guide to arcade video games, 19 games are featured, and reviewed in this book, along with various hand held systems, and video game consoles. The book looks at the effect they had on the popular culture. There is illustration, color, and black and white photographs, as well as screenshots of each the games. The book is written in a humorous tone, with the growing popularty of video games as being a invasion. There is a introduction by film director Steven Spielberg, in which he explains his playing Missle Command, then describing what the reader will discover in the books various sections. The book also have the complete computer program, that can solve the Rubik's Cube.

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English
Pages
128

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Invasion of the Space Invaders
1982, Methuen Publications
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Invasion of the Space Invaders
November 1982, Celestial Arts
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Table of Contents

Introduction, by Steven Spielberg. 7
I. They Came from Outer Space: The Video Invasion. 11
Invasion of the Space Invaders. 11
The Algebra of Need. 14
Suddenly One Summer. 15
The Last Wave. 19
Bug-Eyed Monsters. 20
The Game of the Name. 25
Flay It Again. 26
Bleeping Sickness. 26
No Hiding Place. 29
On the Grapevine. 30
Chips with Everything. 32
Television Break-Out. 34
Exit Monster Mode. 36
Take Me to Your Leader. 39
Don't Talk That Way. 40
The Blank-Screen Generation. 42
II. Fighting Back for Mother Earth: Beating the Games. 45
Space Invaders. 46
Galaxian. 50
Asteroids. 52
Pacman. 56
Defender. 58
Scramble. 64
Cosmic Alien. 65
Lunar Lander. 66
Battlezone. 68
Missile Command. 72
Gorf. 76
Pleiads. 78
Centipede. 80
Frogger. 81
Donkey Kong. 82
Turbo. 84
Video Hustler, Pro-Golf and Dribbling. 86
Tempest. 90
III. The Home Front: The Aliens Are Here to Stay. 95
The Invasion of Privacy. 96
TV Games: The Run of the Carts. 98
Among the Alien Corn. 104
Toddler Video: The Computer as Rattle. 108
King of the Castle. 110
The Soft Machine. 112
Chomp. 113
Rubik's Cube. 114
The Space Race: Video Competitions. 120
Who's Who in the Alien World. 122
Glossary. 125
Acknowledgements. 127

Edition Notes

Published in
Agincourt, Ontario
Copyright Date
1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
794
Library of Congress
GV1469.3 A65

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
128
Dimensions
29.5 x 21.5 x 0.8 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20747369M
ISBN 10
0090478413, 0458953504

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