Ep. 3: 1980, Part 2: Space Invaders

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

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.

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

Production Notes

• Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
• Episode page: Episode 3
• Twitter: @atari8bitgames