Free Space Invaders!
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in Tips & Tricks
August8th2008
Free Space Invaders! Can you believe it? The best part of it is that you can easily play this at work, as long as you're using OpenOffice.org! If you can't remember the notorious Space Invaders game, no problems, we'll take care of that right away, because it would really be a pity for you to miss this free Space Invaders game available as an Easter Egg right inside a free office software suite...
The original Space Invaders game was designed for coin operated arcades by Tomohiro Nishikado back in 1978, and was originally manufactured by Taito, and licensed by the Midway division of Bally in the United States. Today, this may seem a very basic game, but it's enough to say that Space Invaders earned Taito $500 million in revenue, causing a temporary shortage of Yen in Japan!
In the meantime, the game became available on PCs, mobile phones, and other portable devices. Now, it even became an Easter Egg inside OpenOffice.org's Calc application. To access it, simply open Calc, and type =GAME("StarWars") into one of the cells...
...and it's all done! Choose one of the available heroes - Triminator, Huge Jelly Star, Mega Hunter, Natural Fighter, or Overkill Gun Fighter, and then kill'em all! Use the arrow keys to move, and the Space bar to fire. The game messages are in German, but I am sure you can find your way through!
At last, you should know that, once you close the game("Boss is coming!"), you won't be able to play again, unless you close and open the Calc software. Anyway, I am sure this free Space Invaders game will help you kill your time easier than before, so be sure not to lose your job over it!
The original Space Invaders game was designed for coin operated arcades by Tomohiro Nishikado back in 1978, and was originally manufactured by Taito, and licensed by the Midway division of Bally in the United States. Today, this may seem a very basic game, but it's enough to say that Space Invaders earned Taito $500 million in revenue, causing a temporary shortage of Yen in Japan!
In the meantime, the game became available on PCs, mobile phones, and other portable devices. Now, it even became an Easter Egg inside OpenOffice.org's Calc application. To access it, simply open Calc, and type =GAME("StarWars") into one of the cells...
...and it's all done! Choose one of the available heroes - Triminator, Huge Jelly Star, Mega Hunter, Natural Fighter, or Overkill Gun Fighter, and then kill'em all! Use the arrow keys to move, and the Space bar to fire. The game messages are in German, but I am sure you can find your way through!
At last, you should know that, once you close the game("Boss is coming!"), you won't be able to play again, unless you close and open the Calc software. Anyway, I am sure this free Space Invaders game will help you kill your time easier than before, so be sure not to lose your job over it!
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