Celebrating Space Invaders Day With Space Invaders CounterAttack

https://arcadeheroes.com/2020/06/16/happy-space-invaders-day/ - June 16th, 1978 was an important day in video game history, as Taito launched SPACE INVADERS to arcades in Japan. Licensed by Midway for Western distribution, the game became an internaitonal sensation, causing arcades to skyrocket into legendary status.

For today's video, I film a lot of products at trade shows, and sometimes I overlook something that I shot until much later. Such is the case with this footage of the new Space Invaders Counterattack that was at the UNIS booth, Amusement Expo 2020. Originally debuting at IAAPA 2019, this version was much more polished, but I was actually able to sit down and play it - at IAAPA, the game was being played non-stop, making it difficult to get a try. It is unknown if this will receive a final release thanks to the pandemic, but it seems to me that it would be a hit, just with some additional polishing/balancing to the segment when you have to shoot the real targets.