Ep. 3: 1980, Part 2: Space Invaders

Finishing off 1980, Episode 3 includes coverage of the remaining 6 months of Creative Computing and Compute magazines, and a review of the game Space Invaders published by Atari.

Introduction

Martin Gardiner

Corrections

Digital Press Interview with Larry Kaplan

2600 Game by Game Podcast #3: Ferg's review of Air-Sea Battle

Source code for all operating system revisions

2600 Game by Game Podcast #41: Ferg's review of Kaboom

Feedback

Manual for 400/800 version of the Super Breakout

Intellivisionaries Podcast

XKCD

What if?

FiveThirtyEight interview with Randall Munroe about "What if?"

New 8-bit podcast! Inverse ATASCII, the Atari 8-bit Productivity Podcast

Magazines

Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980

Compute #5, July/Aug 1980

Creative Computing v6, #7 Jul 1980

Creative Computing v6, #8 Aug 1980

Compute #6, Sep/Oct 1980

2600 Game-By-Game review of Video Life

Conway's Game of Life

Creative Computing v6, #9 Sep 1980

Creative Computing v6, #10 Oct 1980

Compute #7, Nov/Dec 1980

Creative Computing v6, #11 Nov 1980

Creative Computing v6, #12 Dec 1980

Game Review: Space Invaders

Atari Mania's Space Invaders page

Atari 8-bit Forever's Space Invaders page

Ferg's review of Space Invaders for the 2600

Arcade version

Space Invaders Targets Coins

The Myth of the 100 Yen Coin Shortage

AtariAge Forum Post by the author

Author: Rob Fulop

Ferg talks about Rob Fulop on 2600 Game by Game Podcast, Episode #7

Digital Press Interview

Gamasutra: Playing Catch Up with Rob Fulop

1994 Wired interview

Gamasutra: The Replay Interviews: Rob Fulop

Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan

Manual

Space Invaders manual PDF and desktop wallpaper

Coin Connection Atari Newsletter, Vol 2, #6 June 1978

Howald Delman interview with photo of Bob Flemate

Production Notes

Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page

Episode page: Episode 3

Twitter: @atari8bitgames