Space Invaders
Space Invaders is a 1978 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. Taito released it in Japan in July 1978 and overseas through a partnership with Midway Manufacturing later that year. Space Invaders was the first video game with endless gameplay and the first fixed shooter, setting the template for the genre. The goal is to defeat waves of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
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Arduino UNO Game Engine is a custom 2D engine for the Arduino UNO, playable with ports of Manic Miner, Scramble, and Space Invaders.
Platforms:Arduino
Stars46
Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2024
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A text-mode, Curses-based recreation of Space Invaders written in C in 2001, playable on Linux; development has halted.
Platforms:Linux
Stars56
Updated5 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2013
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Hopson-Arcade is a C++17/SFML collection of small arcade games, currently holding just its first entry, a Space Invaders clone.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars94
Updated6 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2018
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A browser-based HTML5 Space Invaders implementation supporting one or two players in turn-based play.
Platforms:Web
Stars8
Updated8 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2017
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A from-scratch Space Invaders clone built as an Intel 8080 emulator in C with SDL, written to be easy to read for learners.
Platforms:Linux
Stars17
Updated6 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2015
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A simplified Space Invaders made with the nCine engine for PC, Android and the web.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
Stars3
Updated4 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2019
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A ~300-line Space Invaders clone in Python and Pygame, originally written for Linux User & Developer magazine.
Platforms:Raspberry Pi
Stars27
Updated9 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2014
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pyspaceinvaders is a 2009 Python and PyGame remake of Space Invaders, released under the GPLv2 license.
Platforms:Linux
Stars8
Updated16 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2010
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An SDL2 remake of Space Invaders with a turn-based two-player mode and destructible shields.
Platforms:Windows
Stars9
Updated8 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2017
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A terminal-based, ASCII-graphics recreation of Space Invaders written in C with Ncurses - the author's first game, from around 2005.
Platforms:Linux
Stars13
Updated12 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2014
Sporadic
A from-scratch Intel 8080/Space Invaders arcade emulator in C#, with save states, rewind, and an interactive debugger.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars18
Updated4 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
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A pygame rebuild of Space Invaders that also exposes a custom Gymnasium reinforcement-learning environment for AI agents.
Platforms:None
Stars1
Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2024
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An early, colorful 2019 pygame remake of Space Invaders, made while learning Python - not meant to be authentic to the arcade original.
Platforms:None
Stars0
Updated5 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2019
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A Space Invaders clone written in Rust, currently still in active development.
Platforms:None
Stars0
Updated3 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2023
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A C++/SFML clone of Space Invaders for Linux, with AUR packaging and Windows cross-compilation support.
Platforms:Linux
Stars0
Updated1 year ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2019
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An educational Haskell reimplementation of Space Invaders demonstrating Functional Reactive Programming with Yampa.
Platforms:None
Stars29
Updated2 years ago
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Release2015
Archived
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A voxel-graphics arcade shooter that reimagines Space Invaders in 3D, released open source after starting as a commercial game.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars3
Updated5 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2020
Sporadic
A 3D vector-graphics Space Invaders clone for X11, with an added two-player duel mode.
Platforms:Linux
Stars8
Updated4 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2022