What 40 years of 'Space Invaders' says about the 1970s – and today via @TC_Africahttps://theconversation.com/what-40-years-of-space-invaders-says-about-the-1970s-and-today-97518?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter …
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As a person who has contributed to the MAME project for the past 15 years, my own mother linked me to this article just half an hour ago, and I have some pretty strong opinions on it. You probably won't care, but I'll vent my spleen regardless, in the hopes that others will hear.
For starters: "An analysis of 'Pac-Man,' for instance, shows ... consumerism, drug use and gender politics," Are you even remotely serious? Toru Iwatani didn't give half a damn about any of those things, he was interested in designing a fun game.
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Almost nobody in the industry gave a damn about such things then. You have to understand, we're talking about a time frame that is but 5 years after the first microprocessor-based arcade machines existed at all. They were to 1980 what digital computers were to 1950 at that point.
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"Avoiding an enemy only delays the inevitable; players cannot move forward or back, but can only defend their space." Again, just MAYBE that's because it was 1978, CPU-based arcade games had only existed for 3 years at that point, and the industry was in its infancy.
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