![]() ![]() ![]() Pacific Kôgyô was a full subsidiary of the Taito Trading Company, the business started by Michael Kogan in 1953. Space Invaders may be the reason Westerners know the brand name Taito, but it was not Taito proper where the game was developed. In the end, the three nautical designs made the game, plus one for a flying saucer. Happy with the results on-screen, but knowing his five rows of eleven aliens needed a little more diversity, Nishikado looked into other marine shapes to inspire his extraterrestrials, and chose squid and crabs. "The Martians who appeared on the screen had an appearance close to octopuses," Nishikado was quoted as saying, and he chose to honor HG Wells' classic sci-fi novel by giving the first alien he designed an octopus silhouette. It's not entirely untrue (Nishikado must have heard about the 1977 US box office hit), but he did not see the movie before Space Invaders was finished, as it wasn't released in Japan at the time.Īnd yet sci-fi stories did play a huge part, especially the inspiration that flowed from a film Nishikado had seen as a youngster: The War of the Worlds (1953), based on HG Wells' famous book on an Martian invasion, directed by Byron Haskin. Often, people insist the Space Invaders theme of a fight between humans and aliens was inspired by the first Star Wars movie. For a while, Nishikado toyed with the prototype, before discarding the warship idea altogether, replacing it with the alien invasion theme we all know and love. A cannon at the bottom of the screen would take on an invasion fleet of warships coming in from the top screen that looked rather believable, moving towards you on the tides (or so one imagined), dropping mines down as they approached the shore. The humanoids worked much better graphically as 11x8 pixels sprites, but had to go after management (notably Taito's founder and President Michael Kogan) expressed concerns about killing humans in games. AFK Arena Battlefield 1 Battlefield 4 BioShock Infinite Bloodborne Borderlands 3 Castlevania Crazy Taxi Cyberpunk 2077 Dark Souls Dark Souls II Dark Souls III Deathloop Destiny Destiny 2 Diablo Dishonored 2 Dislyte Dragon Age Inquisition Elden Ring Elder Scrolls Online Fallout 4 Fallout 76 Final Fantasy XV Ghost of Tsushima Ghostwire: Tokyo God of War God of War Ragnarök Golden Axe Guild Wars 2 Horizon Forbidden West Horizon Zero Dawn ICO InFamous: Second Son Jak & Daxter Jet Set Radio Journey Killzone Little Nightmares Mass Effect Mirror's Edge Mirror's Edge: Catalyst Mistbound Myst Ni no Kuni II Nuclear Throne Okami Overwatch 2 Pac-Man Persona 5 Phantasy Star Prey PUBG: Battlegrounds Ratchet & Clank Shadow of the Colossus Shenmue Shinobi Skyrim Sly Cooper Sonic the Hedgehog Space Channel 5 Space Harrier StarCraft Street Fighter Street Fighter Alpha 2 Street Fighter II Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Street Fighter IV Streets of Rage Super Street Fighter II Super Street Fighter II Turbo The Last of Us The Last of Us Part II The Order: 1886 The Vanishing of Ethan Carter The Witcher 3 Transformers Uncharted 1 Uncharted 2 Uncharted 3 Uncharted 4 Virtua Fighter World of Tanks World of Warcraft ![]()
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