History VideoGame / SpaceInvaders

** The iOS version of Infinity Gene has DownloadableContent featuring Silver Hawk from ''VideoGame/{{Darius}}'', Inter Gray from ''VideoGame/NightStriker'', Black Fly from ''MetalBlack'', and the R-Gray2 from ''RayStorm''.

** The iOS version of Infinity Gene has DownloadableContent featuring Silver Hawk from ''VideoGame/{{Darius}}'', Inter Gray from ''NightStriker'', Black Fly from ''MetalBlack'', and the R-Gray2 from ''RayStorm''.

* DenserAndWackier: ''Space Invaders '95: The Attack of the Lunar Loonies'' hits [[WidgetSeries Widget]]-status with some absolutely off-the-wall enemies to fight, such as really chubby kissy-faces (and your ships are pretty kooky too, with things like a spacefighting toilet). The core game is still intact, by and large (even including the classic "dun-DUN-dun-DUN" from the original game playing in the background behind the music), but also ups the ante with more traditional vertical scrolling shooter segments and battles against equally-weird boss enemies which would be at home in any strange Japanese curio or tchotchke shop.

* DenserAndWackier: ''Space Invaders '95: The Attack of the Lunar Loonies'' hits [[WidgetSeries Widget]]-status with some absolutely off-the-wall enemies to fight, such as really chubby kissy-faces (and your ships are pretty kooky too, with things like a spacefighting toilet). The core game is still intact, by and large (even including the classic "dun-DUN-dun-DUN" from the game playing in the background behind the music) but also ups the ante with more traditional vertical scrolling shooter segments and battles against equally-weird boss enemies which would be at home in any strange Japanese curio or tchotchke shop.

* DenserAndWackier: ''Space Invaders '95: The Attack of the Lunar Loonies'' hits [[WidgetSeries Widget]]-status with some absolutely off-the-wall enemies to fight, such as really chubby kissy-faces (and your ships are pretty kooky too, with things like a spacefighting toilet).

* ''Akkanvaders'' (1995), aka ''Space Invaders '95: The Attack of the Lunar Loonies''[[note]]Features {{Crossover}} appearances by Sayo-chan, (AKA: "Pocky") from VideoGame/KiKiKaikai (AKA: "Pocky and Rocky"), and the Silver Hawk from the VideoGame/{{Darius}} series.

** And again on the Xbox360 & PS3 versions' Stage 5-3 against Ultimate UFO.

In 2009, Taito graced the iPhone with ''Space Invaders Infinity Gene''. The game begins with the original classic gameplay, then the infinity gene takes over and the game gradually evolves into a modern ShootEmUp, as the player gains selectable ships, powerups, and an unrestricted range of movement, while the Invaders themselves enlist large ships, fleets, armadas, and bosses to take you on. There's also the added threat of terrain CollisionDamage. You can also load up your favorite music to generate custom levels, similar to ''VideoGame/{{Audiosurf}}''. The game gained critical praise, and has recently been updated to include [[BraggingRightsReward achievements]]. It has been ported to the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, and befitting its evolution theme, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VoUvIQiDIY it has addressed]] the VideoGame3DLeap.

** The title of the game is one to Moonage Dydream by DavidBowie.

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* ''Super Space Invaders '91'' (1990)

* ''Space Invaders '95'' (1995)

* ''Space Invaders X'' (1999; PlayStation, PC, {{Nintendo 64}}, GameBoyColor)

* ''Space Invaders Revolution'' (2005; NintendoDS)
* ''Space Invaders Evolution'' (2005; {{PSP}})
* ''Space Invaders Extreme'' (2008; NintendoDS, {{PSP}})
* ''Space Invaders Get Even'' (2008, WiiWare)
* ''Space Invaders Extreme 2'' (2009; NintendoDS)
* ''Space Invaders Infinity Gene'' (2009; [[IOSGames iPhone, iPod Touch]], 2010; Xbox 360, Playstation 3)

There was also a less-well-known, though quite good fun, [[http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p13366.htm version]] released by {{Activision}} in 1999. It would have been InNameOnly but for a very similar gameplay mechanic (most of the time, anyway; it had boss monsters, powerups, and a few levels which were more akin to puzzles than straight shooting galleries). It also contained an unlockable version of the original game.

* StarfishAliens: The Invaders resemble octopuses, crabs, and squids. WordOfLord Helix says the octopus ones were directly inspired by HG Wells' description of the Martians from ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.

* ''Space Invaders 90/91'' (1990; SegaGenesis)

* ''Space Invaders EX'' (2002; GameBoyAdvance)

The game was so popular that it caused a Japan-wide shortage of the 100-yen coins that the game's coin slot demanded, and the home version was [[KillerApp largely responsible for the runaway success]] of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} Atari VCS]] (later 2600) home console system. It also spawned the medical term "Space Invaders wrist." In United States arcades, it was the first video game to out-gross any and all {{Pinball}} machines (the top selling arcade game the year before had been [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally's]] ''Evel Knievel'' pinball). It was the first game in which play could last an [[EndlessGame open-ended amount of time]], given sufficient skill, rather than being timed to a finite clock, and it immediately spawned a host of equally classic imitators, such as ''VideoGame/{{Galaxian}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Gorf}}'', and the entire top-scrolling rail shooter genre.

The game was so popular that it caused a Japan-wide shortage of the 100-yen coins that the game's coin slot demanded, and the home version was [[KillerApp largely responsible for the runaway success]] of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} Atari VCS]] (later 2600) home console system. It also spawned the medical term "Space Invaders wrist." In United States arcades, it was the first video game to out-gross any and all {{Pinball}} machines (the top selling arcade game the year before had been [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally's]] ''Evel Knievel'' pinball). It was the first game in which play could last an [[EndlessGame open-ended amount of time]], given sufficient skill, rather than being timed to a finite clock, and it immediately spawned a host of equally classic imitators, such as ''{{Galaxian}}'', ''{{Gorf}}'', and the entire top-scrolling rail shooter genre.

* AliensStealCattle: Bonus stages in ''Super Space Invaders'' has you defending several cows of alien flying saucers that try to abduct them.

* MoreDakka: ''Space Invaders Extreme'' and ''Infinity Gene'' break the OneBulletAtATime limitation that has stayed with the series for decades with large-scale weapons built for destroying large groups of invaders at a time.

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* AscendedGlitch: The aliens speeding up as their numbers decreased. The behavior is the unintentional result of removing objects from memory, allowing processing time to be allocated for the remaining aliens. The developers originally wanted to code out the behavior but after some playtesting they determined that it added challenge and the perception that the aliens were doubling down as their numbers fell so they left it in.

* AscendedGlitch: The aliens speeding up as their numbers decreased.

* TakingYouWithMe: The Kamikaze aliens on Venus in Space Invaders X will attempt this if shot once. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Their special weapon allows you to do this to them]], except you don't die when you use it.