Oddly, I was thinking just this morning that despite the popularity of some older arcade games, that no one would put out something as simple as Space Invaders again. Turns out, I was wrong.

For the uninitiated, Space Invaders is a simple game. There’s an invading horde of creatures slowly making your way to your planet. Your job is to shoot them down with your … cannon? Rocket ship that doesn’t leave the ground? Gun thingy? … that slides back and forth horizontally and can hide behind shields, at least, until the invaders reach that level, when they disappear. That doesn’t sound fair, does it? Nor is it fair that with each alien you take out, his or her buddies speed up a notch, until the last one’s chugging downscreen at an alarming and very hard-to-hit rate.