The Return of Space Invaders

There is a new version of the classic game Space Invaders that is now becoming very popular thanks to new technology that makes the whole game a free mobile game. That's right. Now you can play Space Invaders on any Internet equipped cell phone or PDA. Imagine waiting for a train or airplane while reliving your youth by playing this classic game.

Not sure if you remember Space Invaders? Let me jog your memory. You have a small space ship at the bottom of the screen. A relentless crowd of aliens slowly matches toward you. Blast them all the way before they make the way to the bottom of the screen to win.

Well, you never actually win. Every time you clear out all the rows of aliens, another whole field appears. The newer aliens are always faster and more threatening, firing their own missiles straight down at you. At the beginning, you have four bases to hides behind, but eventually the bases become destroyed by the rocket fire.

There is also a red space ship that is accompanied by a siren sound effect. It crosses the screen once firing randomly. If you kill, it you get a random number of points. Sometimes it is just worth thirty points, other times it is worth 300.

If you can manage to clear ten thousand points your first time out, you are not bad. But one look at the high scores on the Internet should make you humble. There are those who have scored over ten million points. By my estimates, these people would have had to play Space Invaders continuously for four days without a mistake. Now that kind of concentration is worthy of Tiger Woods! Yet for the rest of us, ten minutes makes a great game. Try it out!