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Within one year of its US release, an additional 60,000 machines had been sold. One arcade owner said of Space Invaders that it was the first arcade game whose intake "represented a significant portion of the cost of [buying] the game in any one week." That is, it was the first video game that paid for itself within about a month.
By 1980, some 300,000 Space Invader video arcade games were in use in Japan, and an additional 60,000 in the United States.
According to TEC, Atari's arcade game Space Invaders has taken in $2 billion, with net receipts of $450 million. ... They compare this to the box office movie top blockbuster Star Wars, which has taken in only $486 million, for a net of $175 million.
Space Invaders offered a novelty: players had three lives. Those who got good at the game could play for as long as they could keep from being blown to bits.
The gameplay of Doom is at its core familiar from the early classics like Space Invaders ... it presents the player with the clear and simple challenge of surviving while shooting everything that moves.
In the UK, the Labour MP George Foulkes led a campaign in 1981 to curb the 'menace' of video games, maintaining that they had addictive properties. His 'Control of Space Invaders and other Electronic Games Bill' was put to the Commons and only narrowly defeated.
In fact, figures compiled last year by Replay magazine indicate that the remarkably popular Pac Man created by Midway Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of Bally Manufacturing Co., singlehandedly earns about $8.1 million a week. That sum would place it about $2 million ahead of movie record-breaker Superman II on Variety's most recent top-grossing films chart. Even its nearest Midway competitor, the legendary Space Invaders game, grosses about $7.7 million.
In fact, figures compiled last year by Replay magazine indicate that the remarkably popular Pac Man created by Midway Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of Bally Manufacturing Co., singlehandedly earns about $8.1 million a week. That sum would place it about $2 million ahead of movie record-breaker Superman II on Variety's most recent top-grossing films chart. Even its nearest Midway competitor, the legendary Space Invaders game, grosses about $7.7 million.
