Gamlet Trivia #25 — 2026-07-27
The answer was Space Invaders — Its designer wanted human soldiers as targets, but Taito refused — so he drew octopus-like aliens inspired by The War of the Worlds..
That day's clues
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- The 1978 arcade phenomenon whose Atari 2600 port sent home-console sales into orbit.
- A fixed-cannon shoot 'em up: pick off descending rows from behind crumbling bunkers as the last survivors speed up.
- Created by Tomohiro Nishikado at Taito — he designed the hardware himself, too.
- Its speeding-up tempo began as a hardware quirk — fewer sprites drew faster — and set the template for difficulty curves; the coin-shortage story is a myth.
- Anagram of its second word: VANS RIDE