An excellent
Space Invaders clone for the
Intellivision system. Supposedly it was
legal to clone the game since it was not properly covered under
trademarks according to Mattel lawyers (only the name was trademarked).
It was released for the
system by
Mattel, and was programmed by
APh Technical consulting (who did many of the Intellivsion games). It had many levels of difficulty, that culminated in very fast
invisible enemies, that you could only tell by their shots down at you. Very interesting. It was a great game, that ate many of my childhood hours (though none as much as
Shark! Shark! or
Buzz Bombers) I had not had any exposure to Space Invaders, outside of Space Armada, so when I first saw it, I triumphantly claimed that the intellivision game was terrible ripped off. However, I came to learn that the
converse was true.
It has made it over to the
PC,
Mac, and
Playstation via the magic of emulation on the
Intellivision Lives! compilation.
Edited from http://www.makingit.com/intellivision