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1980, PART 2: SPACE INVADERS

01:04:14   29.4 MB   Production date: 09/17/14

Finishing off 1980, Episode 3 includes coverage of the remaining 6 months of Creative Computing and Compute magazines, and a review of the game Space Invaders published by Atari.

Show Notes:

Introduction

• Martin Gardiner

Corrections

• Digital Press Interview with Larry Kaplan

• 2600 Game by Game Podcast #3: Ferg’s review of Air-Sea Battle

• Source code for all operating system revisions

• 2600 Game by Game Podcast #41: Ferg’s review of Kaboom

Feedback

• Manual for 400/800 version of the Super Breakout

• Intellivisionaries Podcast

• XKCD

• What if?

• FiveThirtyEight interview with Randall Munroe about “What if?”

• New 8-bit podcast! Inverse ATASCII, the Atari 8-bit Productivity Podcast

Magazines

• Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980

• Compute #5, July/Aug 1980

• Creative Computing v6, #7 Jul 1980

• Creative Computing v6, #8 Aug 1980

• Compute #6, Sep/Oct 1980

  • 2600 Game-By-Game review of Video Life

  • Conway’s Game of Life

• Creative Computing v6, #9 Sep 1980

• Creative Computing v6, #10 Oct 1980

• Compute #7, Nov/Dec 1980

• Creative Computing v6, #11 Nov 1980

• Creative Computing v6, #12 Dec 1980

Game Review: Space Invaders

• Atari Mania’s Space Invaders page

• Atari 8-bit Forever’s Space Invaders page

• Ferg’s review of Space Invaders for the 2600

Arcade version

• Space Invaders Targets Coins

• The Myth of the 100 Yen Coin Shortage

• AtariAge Forum Post by the author

Author: Rob Fulop

• Ferg talks about Rob Fulop on 2600 Game by Game Podcast, Episode #7

• Digital Press Interview

• Gamasutra: Playing Catch Up with Rob Fulop

• 1994 Wired interview

• Gamasutra: The Replay Interviews: Rob Fulop

• Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan

Manual

• Space Invaders manual PDF and desktop wallpaper

• Coin Connection Atari Newsletter, Vol 2, #6 June 1978

• Howald Delman interview with photo of Bob Flemate

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