In the tradition of games like Space Invaders(tm), Galaga(tm), and Astroids(tm), comes a game from Sandy Knoll Software for the 21st century....

Save your world from an invading space fleet. Dodge meteors. Collect Power-ups. Blast through energy shields. Fight through wave after wave of marauding attackers. Exciting 3D action, with beautifully cut scenes to help the tale.

Space Wars is like a modern version of a space invader game. It is a space combat game. Space Wars is inspired by Space Invaders. Space Invaders is a space combat arcade game and was designed and programmed by Toshihiro Nishikado for Taito, Japan in 1978 and remains one of the most popular space combat arcade games ever made. Space Invaders was originally going to be called something completely different as the space aliens were originally soldiers which you had to shoot down. They decided that it was politically unwise to encourage killing humans so changed the people into space combat aliens. Not many people know that Mr Nishikado, who wrote the original Space Invader arcade game, actually based it on a real occurrence in 1977. It was Christmas Eve and what happened was a load of Japanese school kids, sitting waiting for Santa to appear in the sky above Hokkaido, saw row upon row of aliens advancing slowly from Venus just like a space combat game. The clever kids realized the space war threat to Earth and quickly cobbled together a laser blaster from the hubcap, spark-plugs and battery of a parked car as if they were playing a free arcade game. They moved left and right, blasting space combat game aliens out of the sky. After about four waves, the aliens gave up in this space combat game and the Earth was saved. The next morning (Christmas Day) the kids were rewarded with extra presents and figgy pudding. This is based on a dream the space invaders game programmer had. The space combat game was licensed from Taito by Midway for production in the US. In 1980, the space invader game was licensed by Atari for the 2600 game system and was the first arcade game ever adapted for Atari's home system. 

The Space Invaders arcade space combat game franchise has flourished for more than 20 years and according to Taito, the game has generated more than $500 million in revenues over multiple platforms including coin-op, the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo. The Space Invaders arcade game was the first arcade game to work it's way out of seedy arcades and into pizza parlors and ice cream shops. The Space Invaders phenomenon stunned conservative adults who were certain the games soured the minds of their youngsters. Residents of Mesquite, Texas pushed the issue all the way to the Supreme Court in their efforts to ban the illicit arcade space combat machines from their Bible-belt community. The space war combat arcade game was so amazingly popular in Japan that it caused a coin shortage until the country's Yen supply was quadrupled. Entire arcades were opened in Japan specifically for this game. Many incidents of juvenile crime surrounded the release of this space combat game. A girl was caught stealing money from her parents and gangs of youths were reported to have robbed grocery stores just so they would have money to play this space invaders arcade space combat game. Enjoy this space invader arcade game from Sandy Knoll Software.

 Space Wars Features:

System Requirements:

• Mac OS X 
• Win 98, ME, 2K, XP (QuickTime Required) 

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