1.22.2005

SPACE INVADERS WRIST

On the way to American Library Association Midwinter Meeting sometime in the 80s, I was stranded at the St.Louis airport and used all my spending money to play SPACE INVADERS. I came down with Space Invaders Wrist. Then I spent too much time at Space Port on Green Street in Champaign getting a bad case of Pac Man elbow. The American Museum of the Moving Image has an online exhibition that includes Space Invaders, Tron, Asteroids and more. Hot Circuits.
Best of all you can play Space Invaders online!

Book:
Van Burnham
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 (MIT Press, 2003).