Editing Space Invaders (section)

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The 1980 [[Atari VCS]] (Atari 2600) version was the first official [[licensing]] of an arcade game for consoles and became the first [[killer app]] for [[home video game console]]s after quadrupling the system's sales.<ref name="RG-41" /><ref>{{cite book |title=[[Ultimate History of Video Games]] |first=Steven |last=Kent | author-link = Steven L. Kent|page=190 |publisher=[[Three Rivers Press]] |isbn=0-7615-3643-4 |year=2001}}</ref> It sold over one million units in its first year, then over {{nowrap|4.2 million}} copies by the end of 1981, and over {{nowrap|5.6 million}} by 1982. It was the [[List of best-selling Atari 2600 video games|best-selling Atari 2600 game]] up until the [[Pac-Man (Atari 2600 video game)|Atari version of ''Pac-Man'']] (1982).<ref name="Atari">{{cite book |title=Cartridge Sales Since 1980 |publisher=[[Atari Corp.]]}} Via {{cite episode |title=The Agony & The Ecstasy |series=Once Upon Atari |date=August 10, 2003 |number=4 |minutes=23 |publisher=Scott West Productions}}</ref> ''Space Invaders'' for the Atari 2600 had sold {{formatnum:{{#expr:1318655+2964137+1373033+435353}}|}} cartridges by 1983,<ref name="Atari"/> and a further {{formatnum:{{#expr:(11523+6000)+65148+29717+36308+12355}}|}} between 1986 and 1990,<ref name="Vendel">{{Cite web|last=Vendel|first=Curt|date=May 28, 2009|title=Site News|url=http://www.atarimuseum.com/whatsnew/2009-MAY-28.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206090952/http://www.atarimuseum.com/whatsnew/2009-MAY-28.html|archive-date=December 6, 2010|access-date=November 27, 2021|website=Atari Museum}}</ref> for a total of over {{nowrap|{{#expr:6.091178+0.161051 round 2}} million}} cartridges sold by 1990.

Other official [[Video game conversion|conversions]] were released for the [[Atari 8-bit computers]] and [[Atari 5200]] console, while Taito later released it for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Nintendo Famicom]] in 1985, but only in Japan. By 1982, versions of ''Space Invaders'' were available for [[handheld electronic game]] devices, tabletop [[dedicated console]]s, [[home computer]]s, [[watch]]es and [[pocket calculator]]s.<ref name="Cohen"/> The Atari VCS conversion was programmed by Richard Maurer,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Haque |first1=James |title=Reminiscing from Richard Maurer |url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/archive/maurer.html |access-date=May 19, 2021 |work=Giant List of Classic Game Programmers |publisher=Dadgum Games |date=January 5, 1999 |archive-date=June 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622135928/https://dadgum.com/giantlist/archive/maurer.html |url-status=live }}</ref> while the Atari 5200 conversion was programmed by Eric Manghise and animated by Marilyn Churchill.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stilphen |first1=Scott |title=DP Interviews... Marilyn Churchill |url=https://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_marilyn_churchill.html |access-date=May 19, 2021 |work=Digital Press |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226230857/http://www.digitpress.com/library/interviews/interview_marilyn_churchill.html |archive-date=February 26, 2009}}</ref>

More than a hundred ''Space Invaders'' [[video game clone]]s were released for various platforms,<ref name="smithsonianmag history">{{cite web | url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/original-space-invaders-icon-1970s-America-180969393/ | title = The Original 'Space Invaders' Is a Meditation on 1970s America's Deepest Fears | first = Lindsay | last = Grace | date = June 19, 2018 | access-date = April 22, 2021 | work = [[Smithsonian Magazine]] | archive-date = April 22, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210422215437/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/original-space-invaders-icon-1970s-America-180969393/ | url-status = live }}</ref> such as ''[[Super Invader]]'' (1979)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Super Invader Is Reader's Choice |magazine=[[Softalk]] |date=April 1981 |issue=13 |url=http://apple2history.org/appendix/aha/aha78/ |access-date=February 10, 2012 |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207130344/http://apple2history.org/appendix/aha/aha78/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''[[TI Invaders]]'' (1981); the latter was the [[List of best-selling PC games|top-selling game]] for the [[TI-99/4A]] through at least 1982.<ref>{{citation |title=Cash In On the Video Game Craze |work=[[Black Enterprise]] |date=December 1982 |volume=12 |issue=5 |issn=0006-4165 |pages=41–2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6pacvfrf0wC&pg=PA41 |access-date=May 1, 2011|last1=Earl g. Graves |first1=Ltd }}</ref>