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How Tomohiro Nishikado created Space Invaders 46 years ago | exclusive interview
Tomohiro Nishikado created a global entertainment and gaming phenomenon 46 years ago.
After Space Invaders, it was all videogames,” said Jonathan Ackley, a professional game designer who co-created The Curse of Monkey Island, in a message to GamesBeat. If you let people stay in front of the cabinet and play for a very long time, the sales and marketing department wouldn’t be very happy about that. Because of the limited graphical capacity at that moment, the characters were very simple, but people found them very “kawaii,” the Japanese word for “cute.” That’s another factor.
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