space invaders
In Real Life

These Real-Life Versions Of Video Games Are Wonderfully Bizarre

I admit it’s really strange to see Pac-Man with legs, but I love this picture nonetheless.

April 18, 2012
In Real Life

Russian Police Mistakes Space Invader For Bomb

A Moscow police force called in the bomb squad last night to investigate a “suspicious object” that turned out to be an alien from the arcade game Space Invaders.

February 2, 2012
In Real Life

Doom, Lemmings And Super Mario, Together For The First Time

Check out this student-made Flash advertisement for… an iPod skin? We’ll take it! Mario and Luigi cope with an invasion straight out of Lemmings and Space Invaders before reinforcements from everyone’s favourite Mars-bound marine. Things get 3D, and decidedly less innocent.

In Real Life

Watch Humanity Take Its Next Leap Toward Real-Life Galaga

Nano quadrotors fly in formation in this great video from the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. All we need is a spaceship that can shoot these things down and we’re good to go.

January 13, 2012
Uncategorized

This 8-Bit Atari Homage Takes The ‘Cake’

If you can steel yourself for a post-modern jumble of space exploration and robotic sing-song, Upside Down Cake’s “Star Strike” offers a neat walk through Atari antiquity. Some of these games certainly deserve the homage.

October 18, 2011
In Real Life

Man Named Knucklez Doubles Space Invaders World Record

On October 7, 2011, Flemington, New Jersey’s Richie Knucklez catapulted himself into the video game record books by racking up 110,510 points in the original 1978 arcade hit Space Invaders, more than doubling the previously held record. How did he do it? Owning his own arcade certainly didn’t hurt.

September 12, 2011
In Real Life

Giant Plastic Alien Heads, Badass Fantasy Art & Video Games

Fans of classic rock and fantasy art will no doubt be familiar with the name Roger Dean. The British artist is as synonymous with 1970′s prog rock (especially the band Yes) as epic guitar tracks, and his bold, unique art style means you’ve probably seen and remembered his work, even if you’ve never remembered his name.

September 9, 2011
In Real Life

The Pause That Refreshes

Concept for a Coca-Cola can celebrating video games, inspired by the art of the French street artist Space Invader. Not an actual can design of the soft-drink giant (and not actually designed by Invader). Concepts for Coke Zero and Diet Coke are at the link.

September 8, 2011
In Real Life

The Hollywood Hills And A Space Invader Wall

Kotaku AU

Some houses come with feature walls. Those are pretty exciting and devious. And then some houses come with Space Invader walls, and those are just jealousy-inducing.

September 2, 2011
In Real Life

When You’re A Rock Star, You Snort Cocaine Off Space Invaders

Noel Gallagher, the former Oasis songwriter, probably doesn’t remember most of the 1990s. He was out of his mind, doing drugs — maybe even doing them off a glass top Space Invaders arcade cabinet.

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