Eviltaco64
August 20th, 2008, 19:25
via Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/5039398/space-invaders-attack-world-trade-center-at-games-convention):
http://kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/08/originalspace.jpg
Let's file this one under "Too Soon." Seen at the "Invaders!" booth, tucked away in Hall Four of the Games Convention being held in Leipzig, Germany right now, was this non-interactive installation of the classic Taito space faring aliens laying waste to the Twin Towers. It was projected on a massive screen in the vicinity of lots of classic Space Invaders goods, as the game is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It was... it was weird.
This hits three year's after the first and last game to take on the World Trade Center hit Brooklyn.
Honestly, we're not quite sure what's going on here quite yet, as we didn't know the German translation for "What the ****?" We do know, however, that the 8-bit tower jumpers and the negative score applied to each WTC tower to indicate damage aren't going to sit well with, we're thinking, everyone.
http://kotaku.com/assets/images/kotaku/2008/08/originalspace.jpg
Let's file this one under "Too Soon." Seen at the "Invaders!" booth, tucked away in Hall Four of the Games Convention being held in Leipzig, Germany right now, was this non-interactive installation of the classic Taito space faring aliens laying waste to the Twin Towers. It was projected on a massive screen in the vicinity of lots of classic Space Invaders goods, as the game is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It was... it was weird.
This hits three year's after the first and last game to take on the World Trade Center hit Brooklyn.
Honestly, we're not quite sure what's going on here quite yet, as we didn't know the German translation for "What the ****?" We do know, however, that the 8-bit tower jumpers and the negative score applied to each WTC tower to indicate damage aren't going to sit well with, we're thinking, everyone.