1970: Taito Memories Joukan PS2 \\ Space Invaders Color! -- 2050 pts ^ _^
0Playing the first game in Taito Memories Joukan ("jo-kan") for PS2: Space Invaders Color! In PCSX2 in Windows.
My Taito Memories: • smbhax's Taito Memories!
0:00 - start
4:43 - Option
6:15 - game unlock code (title screen: L1, R1, R2, L2, Select, Start)
10:25 - Space Invaders Color
18:03 - hi score run 'p' (2050)
30:30 - reading about Space Invaders Color! ('78 or '79??)
46:08 - wrappin'!
The in-game list dates this game at 1978, but online sources say the color version was 1979. Hm! And it isn't exactly an add-on board, or at least not a small one: it's the Taito 8080 in a THREE-board sandwich configuration!
The version in this collection is slightly different than the one shown at https://www.system16.com/hardware.php... where I got that board info--the score display has been increased to five digits in this one, as is visible in the screenshots for Space Invaders II just below it on that page. According to a poster in the Reddit thread I googled up later in the session, Space Invaders II is pretty much the same game: / space_invaders_rom_in_colour
(Space Invaders (b&w) and Space Invaders II are in the next collection, Space Invaders Gekan!)
The MAME info is http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio... and that Jaz Rignall article on the top 10 "highest-grossing" arcade games I was talking about is https://www.vg247.com/top-10-highest-... -- although it says Space Invaders had 360K cabinets sold, whereas Wikipedia said 750K--which does seem extremely high compared to every other arcade game. = ooo
It's a real good game and I'm absolutely terrible at it! The sounds are so good; man.
Didn't notice this while I was playing but it's neat how the invaders' shots leave notches in the red line at the bottom of the screen.
The settings I use in PCSX2 that have removed the blurriness that's seen in the games in these Memories collections when they're running on actual PS2 hardware are
Graphics - Display - Bilinear Filtering - None
Graphics - Rendering - Texture Filtering - Nearest
Huge improvement! Huzzah for PCSX2 ^ _^!!
7/8/24
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