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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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.
"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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Maybe, and bear with me, the gameplay of SI came about as a result of the enormous constraints placed on its creators by the hardware. Nothing else. It is quite insane to suggest that the designers and programmers - one and the same, back then - had some political axe to grind.
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"There’s not even a reason why the invasion is occurring." No, of course not. Since when have arcade games given a reason for, uh, *anything*? What's the reason for your spaceship needing to shoot down asteroids in the eponymous Asteroids?
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