Editing Space Invaders (section)

=== Rankings ===
In 1995, [[Flux (magazine)|''Flux'']] magazine ranked Space Invaders #1 on their "Top 100 Video Games".<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=April 1995 |title=Top 100 Video Games |url=https://archive.org/details/flux-issue-4/page/n23/mode/2up |magazine=Flux |publisher=Harris Publications |issue=4 |pages=25}}</ref> In 1996, [[Next Generation (magazine)|''Next Generation'' magazine]] put ''Space Invaders'' at number 97 on their list of the "Top 100 Games of All Time", saying that it "provides an elegance and simplicity not found in later games like ''[[Phoenix (1980 video game)|Phoenix]]'' [1980]."<ref>{{cite magazine|date=September 1996|title=Top 100 Games of All Time|magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=21|page=38}}</ref> IGN listed it as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Games" in 2007, citing it as a source of inspiration to video game designers and the impact it had on the [[Shooter game|shooting genre]].<ref name="IGN-10" /> ''[[The Times]]'' ranked it No. 1 on its list of "The ten most influential video games ever" in 2007.<ref name="the-times">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110902230443/http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/gadgets_and_gaming/article2455080.ece The ten most influential video games ever], ''[[The Times]]'', September 20, 2007</ref> 1UP ranked it at No. 3 on its list of "The 60 Most Influential Games of All Time", stating that, in contrast to earlier arcade games which "were attempts to [[Simulation video game|simulate]] already-existing things," ''Space Invaders'' was "the first video game as a video game, instead of merely a playable electronic representation of something else."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1up.com/features/most-influential-games?pager.offset=12|title=The 60 Most Influential Games of All Time|last=Kaiser|first=Rowan|date=May 10, 2011|website=[[1UP.com]]|page=13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109194732/http://www.1up.com/features/most-influential-games?pager.offset=12|archive-date=November 9, 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=December 25, 2011}}</ref>

In 2008, ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' listed it as the top-rated arcade game in technical, creative, and cultural impact.<ref name="GWR08-3" /> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' named ''Space Invaders'' one of the top ten games for the [[Atari 2600]] home console in 2013.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Morales|first=Aaron|date=January 25, 2013|title=The 10 best Atari games|url=https://www.ew.com/article/2013/01/25/the-10-best-atari-games|access-date=April 17, 2016|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> In 2018, it was ranked 87th in Video Game Canon's statistical [[meta-analysis]] of 48 "top games" lists published between 1995 and 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.videogamecanon.com/essays/space-invaders/|title=Space Invaders|date=February 17, 2017|website=Video Game Canon|language=en-US|access-date=December 5, 2018|archive-date=December 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205103435/https://www.videogamecanon.com/essays/space-invaders/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The list aggregator site Playthatgame currently ranks Space Invaders as the 57th top game of all time, game of the year, and game of the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jeroen te Strake |first1=Peter Searle |title=Thebiglist |url=http://playthatgame.co.uk/?action=mainlist |website=Playthatgame |access-date=June 16, 2020 |archive-date=June 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617145602/http://playthatgame.co.uk/?action=mainlist |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021, ''[[The Guardian]]'' listed it as the third-greatest [[1970s in video games|video game of the 1970s]], just below ''Galaxian'' and ''Asteroids''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The 15 greatest video games of the 70s – ranked! |url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/may/13/15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked |access-date=May 23, 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=August 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801003901/https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/may/13/15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked |url-status=live }}</ref>