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Super Invader (also called Super Invasion and Apple Invader)[2] is a fixed shooter video game written by Japanese programmer M. Hata for the Apple II and published by Creative Computing Software in November 1979.[3][4] Super Invader is a clone of Space Invaders.[5]
Super Invader | |
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Developer(s) | Astar International Company |
Publisher(s) | Creative Computing Software California Pacific |
Designer(s) | M. Hata |
Platform(s) | Apple II |
Release | November 1979[1] |
Genre(s) | Fixed shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
It was later published as Cosmos Mission in September 1980 by the California Pacific Computer Company.[6]
By June 1982, Super Invader had sold 20,000 copies to tie with Ultima and Castle Wolfenstein for seventh on Computer Gaming World's list of top sellers.[1] It received the award for "Most Popular Program of 1978–1980 for the Apple Computer" in a Softalk readers poll.[7] The magazine later described the game as the "progenitor of home arcades."[8]
The Comos Mission release debuted at 24 on Softalk's list of bestselling Apple II software.[9]
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