Less than 3 months later, what appears to be the 1st Invaders clone appeared. World Vending's 'World Invaders' It's not a direct copy though. You can shoot more than one bullet & it's controlled with a dial. Also appears to be undumped & unknown outside of a few Jp players?

From my research (non-comprehensive) this would appear to be the 1st ever advert for Space Invaders, printed in the mid-August '78 issue of Game Machine

As you'd expect there's many different screen modes B&W, colour, 3 cellophane overlays & the 3 lunar surface variants. The manual explains most of the details about UFOs & their non-random scores & there's preference options for shot count & UFO score displays, extra screen noise, stage number etc

It's true. He was spotted over Japan about an hour ago

What's great about Hamster is that they not only release well-known classics like Castle of the Dragon, Spinal Breakers, and Dacholer but they also release lesser-known oddities like Space Invaders. It seems to be a copy version of the much more famous 'Cosmic Monster'? idk, no info available

How I'm showing up to the bluesky Xmas party

It's been great to see so much celebration for Outfoxies 1st consumer port over this past week Before it's time to celebrate Space Invaders, here's another piece of Outfoxies fan art that was published in Gamest 👾🦎

If you see this, post your favorite Final Fantasy character Butz (& Boko). Just a guy minding his own business who ends up saving the world due to being in the wrong place at the right time & it seems like the right thing to do

Scientists continue to debate if dogs in barrels or sharks in boxes are the most dangerous predator in all of nature🤔 🐶🦈

Smol dog tries his best but can't hurt you & just drags you backwards a bit🐕

youtu.be/LR4HphHf2d0?... A quick & fairly clumsy clear of The Outfoxies. Sometimes your patterns go wrong & you need to improvise & tbh, that's where much of The Outfoxies fun comes from Ultimately all that matters is that you 'Kill your enemy by any means...'

youtu.be/4Z8lXoOHSqw?... Wondering what the best DnB of 2025 was? Well think no more as I have the answers right here Tune of the year - Scabbard by Heist 🏆 Tune of the year that wasn't by Heist - All Things by Filthy Habits🥈

Run-DMC have to stick to speedruns as they can't shmup Last Resort's Hi-Score table is populated entirely by early hip-hop references: Ice T Public Enemy Terminator X MC Trouble 2 Live Crew Boogie Down Productions Zulu Nation Mr Lee West Street Mob Breakers should have done the same thing tbh

I am allowed 1 free pass so if ever Hamster announces Dirt Fox, ported via AI that was powered by starving orphans being beaten to death using baby seals as clubs, I can buy it & you cannot yell at me

Q. How long does the average Compile shmup take to 1CC😉

Any US friends who've bought from LRG should check your emails to see if you're due a cut of $2.7mil Anyone not in the US or who hasn't bought from LRG can just have a laugh at them getting pumped for $2.7mil lol

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similar idea for when you run out of crossover OGs Fighting game where all characters are cool NPCs from other games you've never been able to use - the Red Armours from SamSho2, Dhalsim's wife, 3rd Strike's Judgement Girls, Dunk Dream's stylish Karnov, Bin Cat from Double Dragon etc

youtu.be/zG34D5PO-Z8?... A big fat pre-Xmas mix of brand new DnB, some recent faves, some old faves, a smattering of dubs & some tunes that'll be available in 2026🔊🔊🔊

As a big fan of civilian murder & genocide but who doesn't really rate the Gameboy's line up, I am in quite the pickle right now🤔

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Oy... It's the last work day of the year (for some people) so post a video game banger Warming up to ensure 2026 is the year Dirt Fox finally comes home. The Foxies are Out, surely the Dirt must be next?🦊 Will continue until it happens or Hamster blocks me🤔😉

The official canon for everyone covers what's said in the attract mode but also gives more details too Did you know Bernard is an ex-CIA agent & naturalist who would never harm an animal? Presumably Dweeb is excluded or maybe he's not reached M in his big book of animals to know what a monkey is🤔🐵

I copied this into a spreadsheet. Google translate so if you have any better translations for the headings please let me know docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If you only read English you'll know Eve as 'a has-been film starlet', whereas the Japanese readers will know her as someone who did porn for money (ポルノ = porno) before becoming a thief & now a hitman The porno text remains in the ACA port So now you know

If you've played 2019 action game Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes then you may already have some Outfoxies in your life SUDA51 was a fan of Namco's game & added in an Outfoxies t-shirt, along with lesser known games like Jet Set Radio, Zelda 2 & Hotline Miami 2

For people who might think The Outfoxies characters are much of a muchness & only differ in looks Movement speed, shot accuracy, damage dealt, damage taken, recoil, climbing, recovery frames, lifting, fall recovery, speed on different terrain etc etc etc All vary by character

Some feedback from the Hamster live dedicated to The Outfoxies (1995, Namco). From left to right: - Honda Yoshiyuki (Programmer) - Hijiya Toshiharu (Programmer) - Umeda Masateru (Director) - Motokoide Kôichi (Programmer) - Okamoto Tarô ( Field Design) By email: - Fukuzawa Masahiro (Sound) (1/?)

Never quite got an ideal run together this week but I out foxed enough people to come in 6th overall & I met my score goal of over 5mil Trying to speedrun a game which is usually played methodically, whilst taking as little damage as possible for the health & clear bonuses was certainly a challenge

Title 500 for Arcade Archives next week will be little known oddity 'Space Invaders'. The New Year will then kick off with Space Invaders Part 2👾 Not quite the Namco related shock I was hoping for but you can't deny that Space Invaders was a BIG deal #スペースインベーダー #アーケードアーカイブス #アケアカ

The poster art is great but would it be better without all of those words plastered all over it? With the below image, you can decide that for yourself

Rather than producing fan art of a top hat wearing killer monkey, like a normal person would, Japan went for terrible, awful child twins Danny & Demi and generic white guy with cool t-shirt, John Smith instead From a couple of 1995 Gamest issues

Many fake Namco fans coming out today pretending that they're interested in The Outfoxies. I guarantee not a single one of them even knows that Namco's original mascots Blunco & Splunco are in the game Only real Namco gamerz™️like me know such facts🤔😉

Did you know that The Outfoxies is Namco's take on a game as a form of interactive movie? It directly took influences from such cinematic masterpieces as Die Hard, Day of the Jackal, The Greatest Show on Earth & the decidedly not a masterpiece Jaws 3 Well, they do both have a shark🦈

Like me, Dweeb is a dapper sartorialist & intellectual who enjoys bananas. I however, have never been seen killing children or ladies with a rocket launcher, sword or bowl of hot soup. So I win 🐵🎩🍌

Apparently there are many reasons why people can end up in wheelchairs but if you are an avid listener of right-wing podcasts, you will know that that's a lie & it is a punishment from god for them all being EVIL Explode them with rockets & punch them off a skyscraper the instant you see one

Dweeb has spent the interim years playing baseball for the Namco Black Stars to ensure his arm remains in perfect condition to throw a grenade or plate of boiling hot soup at some children💪 The hero we need

Please ensure suitable attire is worn when playing

In advance of tomorrow's big announcement, Hamster are only issuing little known, barely wanted oddity THE OUTFOXIES this week. This is not a drill The Dweeb is back in action game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20...

It's a little know fact that Sega wanted different regional names for their 16bit console The Mega Drive for Japan, as it sounded cool. The Genesis for the US as it was the dawn of a new era. Luckily someone at Sega UK had a word & let Japan know that the Sega CockWank was a bad idea for Europe

There was absolutely a short lived time in the UK around when the Master System released that anyone sort of related to Sega, like shop assistants, were saying Seega, I'm guessing from some official Sega training? The 'Do me a favour' ad's & especially Sonic the Hedgehog intro speech ended that

So what genres are you into? Well, I'm mostly a Dog gamer but sometimes I play other stuff like Hand-Drawn, Cartoon, Cats, 1980s & Violence

This guy's a fucking idiot Runs an entire ad campaign based on something only he thinks (the name Klonoa sounding like an STD. Fine if the game's creator wanted to call it Klonoarrhea, which he didn't) & invents the genre of 'Guided 3D' for Klonoa & wonders why he's immediately mocked

My Steam recap is that I bought Time Gal HD on sale & played it once to ensure I could play it on the keyboard I may get to it next year

Who tf chooses to advertise something that clearly shows a 4P game in progress being played by only 2 people. And why's her hand to the right of the P3 stick? Have they added twin stick controls or are they just all a bunch of inept morons?🤔 The answer may (not) surprise you🤦‍♂️

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

Inventing 'the official ohfivepro sentence of the year award' so I can present Kelly a trophy🏆 May you all find a happiness like this too someday

I mean, there's still people willingly buying PAL versions of old games in the 21st century too. I can only assume they're doing some kind of Gamerz BDSM?🤔 At least the PAL lot can be excused if they're replacing the exact version of a game they grew up with. The Arcade1UP crowd have no such excuse

Imagine putting your faith into something that's often wrong, frequently contradicts itself & makes you think the answers are coming from a mysterious, advanced, human-like being Also AI use Ba Dum Tss🥁Thank you, I'll be here all week etc🤦‍♂️

"Hiroshi Nakamura, who planned 'Edward Randy' conducted meticulous analysis when planning this game, including creating a nearly 30-page market analysis document" Sorry Hiroshi, I am too much of a dick to not mention that your "meticulous analysis" missed that you spelled CLIFHANGER wrong😉

I've seen a few people mention Tokuro Fujiwara in relation to Roc'N Rope because of Bionic Commando but no-one's mentioned Yoshiki Okamoto, who also worked on the game before moving to Capcom to make a few minor games like Final Fight & Street Fighter 2 They're both in the article I linked before👇