![]() ![]() is evolution, and this is the perfect gameplay monkey-wrench. ![]() Space Invaders Infinity Gene is the latest in the long string of gaming comebacks and this title is very nice indeed. It was a simple concept but it fit very well with the 80s good vs. The concept of Space Invaders is very simple it’s a top-down plane by which you must shoot at the invading aliens with your space ship. We are now in the middle of a retro re-emergence and what better game to usher out this era then a new Space Invaders game that can be played on both HD game systems and your iPhone. Many decades later we now have the advent of the Internet, multi-core processors, and cell phones with enough graphical fidelity to emulate game systems from just half a decade ago. Visions of tie-dyed shirts, big hair, and blood shot eyes infused with the smell of pizza and Mello Yellow combined with David Bowie’s Lets Dance, this is what Space Invaders meant to me. ![]() Of course the truest version of this game had to be experienced in the arcades. Space Invaders in those days was a heroic alternative to early 80s gaming, its player versus the invaders in a battle for the ages. Games back in those years were not trying to hit you over the head with a narrative or attempting to recreate World War 2, but were instead trying to seduce the mind of teenagers or young adults who had survived the 1970s full of sex, drugs, rock and roll, cheap sci-fi, and deep thinking. Sure it was very retro and was attempting to recapture the excitement of the golden years of video games, when it was about the immersion of player and game. ![]() When I first played Space Invaders: Infinity Gene, I did not know what the game was trying to be. ![]()
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