Space Invaders is a Japanese shooting video game released in 1978 by Taito. It was developed by Tomohiro Nishikado, who was inspired by other media: Breakout, The War of the Worlds, and Star Wars. The games was one of the forerunners of modern video gaming and helped expand the video game industry from a novelty to a global industry.
The game Space Invaders became an immediate hit when it was released in 1978. In the original planning for the game, they had planned to have the aliens be human soldiers. Taito figured that they did not want to send the message that shooting humans was ok, so they changed it to aliens.
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If you don't have Python or Pygame installed, you can simply double click the .exe file to play the game. Note: The .exe file needs to stay in the same directory as the sounds, images, and font folders.
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If you have the correct version of Python and Pygame installed, you can run the program in the command prompt / terminal.
cd SpaceInvaders
python spaceinvaders.pyNote: If you're using Python 3, replace the command "python" with "python3"
MacOS Mojave: You need to use Python 3.7.2 or greater: Source
This SpaceInvaders clone can be control using the arrows ← / →, and can shoot with space
- Original Idea: This repository is a fork from Space_Invaders of leerob .
Usage is provided under the MIT License. See LICENSE for the full details.