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Dad claims he finished Space Invaders
ryantheleach:
I've been trying to research this as its been bugging me, dad claims he's finished space invaders as he has kept a cocktail space invaders cabinet because he finished it.
he used to own a pizza bar and had a few arcade machines, but has sold them or they have moved on before I was even born, now all he has is the cocktail cabinet.
anyways I've been doing research and it appears to me that space invaders barely even has enough hardware to run let alone have a ending animation of fireworks like he described.
I think he may be getting confused with another game maybe, he mentioned that at one point in the game that he had to shoot the invaders from top to bottom as the bottom row was invulnerable...
any ideas?
MaximRecoil:
I doubt the game has an ending. You might try asking on the Twin Galaxies forums in the Coin-Op Video Games section.
Surprisingly, for such a classic game, the top score on Twin Galaxies doesn't seem to be all that high; 55,160 set by Donald Hayes (probably the best all-around classic arcade game player ever). Ask your father if he remembers about what his score was when he allegedly finished Space Invaders. Also, ask him to do it again, and videotape it.
I doubt he'd be confused about what game he was playing if he actually kept the machine.
There is always the chance that he's just pulling your leg too.
Avinitlarge:
I cant see it having an ending too. One of my mates recons he completed pacman. Dont know how true it is, I thought it was a never ending game.
SirPeale:
Pac-Man has an end - level 256.
CrazyKongFan:
Pac-man has a pseudo-ending...it's actually a kill screen, you can't finish it. The screen counter rolls over to 0 (255 is the highest an 8-bit number can represent. After that it rolls over to 0). The game starts drawing fruit in the wrong place due to this, and it ends up screwing up the right half of the board, filling it with garbage. Because of this, you can't eat enough dots to finish the board. There's also 9 dots in the garbage area that can be eaten, and respawn everytime you die. Here's a MAME screengrab (using the cheat function to set it to level 256)
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