Invade-A-Load - Commodore 64 - gameplay
3Invade-a-load is a Commodore 64 tape loader with an integrated Space Invaders clone.
Initially, it took minutes to load a game, with nothing else to do on the computer. To make up, a technician at video game publisher Mastertronic, Richard Aplin, had an idea: The first thing that loads is a minigame, and while you play this minigame, the game you actually bought loads in the background. Once loading finishes, the minigame stops and the main game starts. All this was many years before Namco's patent.
Aplin had made another loading game before, namely Load-'n-Play (C64), only it was not that popular. By contrast, many gamers found Invade-a-load so much fun, more fun than their actual purchase, that they stopped the tape to prevent loading from finishing and thus the minigame from stopping. Both minigames take only 4 KB for music, 2 KB for graphics, 2 KB for program, and about one minute.
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Titles where this minigame was inserted:
Raw Recruit
Well not a long list, so if you know some other game feel free to write in the comment section, i'll add it immediately!