Space Invaders ROM

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Space Invaders is a 1978 shoot ’em up arcade video game developed and released by Taito in Japan, and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution. It was ported to the Game Boy in 1994. Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, Space Invaders was the first fixed shooter and set the template for the genre.

The goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser to earn as many points as possible. This version of Space Invaders is based on the 1994 arcade game Space Invaders DX but lacks the parody mode of that game. What remains is the classic mode that allows the player to choose the type of arcade cabinet (upright, black & white, etc.) as background to the action as well as the versus mode for two players.

The versus mode is split-screen, each player trying to survive and eliminate more invaders than the opponent. The Game Boy version has both one- and two-player modes using the usual Game Boy tones (black and grey). However, plugging the cart into a Super Game Boy allows playing the game in all four cabinet types of the SNES version.