Ep. 3: 1980, Part 2: Space Invaders

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

English - September 18, 2014 05:27 - 1 hour - 29.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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Previous Episode: Ep. 2: 1980, Part 1: Super Breakout

Next Episode: Ep. 4: Jan 1981: Caverns of Mars

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