Thirty-five years ago today: Space Invaders conquer the Earth

Tomohiro Ximon of the antique code show already has dozens of arcade games in a series when he began to be the most memorable - of course, the game he made the most games ever: 35 Games issued in Japan before year

Ximen was a technician, joined Taito as a vending machine company in 1969, graduated immediately. Taito's manager asked him to join a local mechanical game called Pachinko, but in 1972 he designed the company's first electronic product which is the popular Pong view of Atari. Elepong of Ximen was warmly welcomed released in 1973 and produced many other video games including the top down rolling speed Speed ​​Speed ​​released in 1974 and the second year of cockpit view aircraft combat interceptor I continued.

Then, in 1977, he said that it was originally named Space Monster, but he began studying what would become space intruders.

In the USA Today magazine in 2008, "Xiaodong was designed as a game of shooters, planes and tanks in early development, but the movement of the character does not look like a tank or an airplane" It was. Looking at the prototype, they said, "You can not shoot people! You can not create an image of war." So I changed the character to a monster.

Saying that, Ximen created a Western gun for Taito two years ago. Western Gun is the first video game to challenge players to take pictures of their characters in a two person game shooting guns in the United States. At that time, Taito did not seem to be bothered. The gun at the west basically uses a bullet instead of a ball and uses a cowboy instead of a bat. Static cactus and moving thrips can be regarded as an initial defense block for intruders and early UFOs

If Taito has not banned human fighting, Nisikado is more interested in the space opera sci-fi and is more likely to cut his new game cloth accordingly. "At that time, I was trying to focus, I've heard about a movie of a science fiction called" Star Wars "made in America. This is how monsters become known invaders today. "

George Lucas' movie is not the only inspiration for Nishikado. Looking for a possible monster, he beat the brain and the tentacle Martian from the world war of HG Wells. This gave him the concept of an octopus like creature, which, in turn, reminded him of other possible marine life.

"I figured out a squid and a crab, my favorite is a crab," he revealed in the 1980s. Alien pencil drawings are refined to create the basic design of each alien, then each transform is added to provide reduced pixelated equivalents and animated

An extinction of dinosaurs of 230 million years ago, the first dinosaur-like creatures went about the earth. In 5 million years, it can be regarded as a dinosaur. They are standing at the top of the food chain soon. They live on every continent. Then they disappeared 65 million years ago. The most powerful creatures that have ever lived on Earth have been extinct. Only dinosaurs were not victims of this "mass extinction". The dinosaur divided the ancestors of their ancestors from the middle Triassic to the late period and dominated our planet during 160 million years. They are known as the most successful species living on Earth. However, 65 million years ago, mass extinction of large species recently seems to have led to extinction of all these species. Back then, what brought the death of the dinosaurs and the loss of 60% of life on Earth? What is the impact on life on the planet afterwards? Are all the dinosaurs dead? Sorry, this

In the past 5 billion years, the life on Earth has nearly died nearly five times. For example, climate change that hit the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, strong ice age, volcanoes and rocks of the universe. . These events are known as the extinction of five major species, and all the signs are that we are now at the edge of a sixth of a cliff. Apart from this time, nobody can blame except us. According to research published last week in the Science Progress magazine, current extinction rates can be over 100 times higher than usual - and this only considers the animal species that we know best. There are countless species in the Earth's ocean and forest, but many of them may disappear before you understand them. (Look at the pictures of 10 rare animals on the planet.)