{"id":16248,"date":"2017-04-18T09:31:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T13:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=16248"},"modified":"2024-03-16T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:49:28","slug":"atari-space-invaders-tournament-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/18\/atari-space-invaders-tournament-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Atari Space Invaders Tournament 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/159407525478\/welcometoyouredoom-atari-space-invaders\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/tumblr_om8xdmROkU1tpri36o1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atari Space Invaders Tournament 1980. The world\u2019s first electronic sports event, it attracted more than 10,000 participants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/159407525478\/welcometoyouredoom-atari-space-invaders\">http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/159407525478\/welcometoyouredoom-atari-space-invaders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space Invaders was one of the first true blockbuster video games after Pong. In Japan, where the game was developed by Taito in 1978, it even caused a shortage of 100-yen pieces (the coin used in arcade machines there). The game was no less popular in the U.S. so of course there was a port for the popular Video Computer System (Atari 2600). It became the first killer app for a video game console and was responsible for quadrupling Atari 2600 sales.<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, the year that Space Invaders was released for the Atari 2600, a tournament was held to determine the best Space Invaders player. Four people were picked from four regional competitions to compete in the final in New York. A total of 10,000 people participated from all of the regions combined. 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The world\u2019s first electronic sports event, it attracted more than 10,000 participants. http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/159407525478\/welcometoyouredoom-atari-space-invaders Space Invaders was one of the first true blockbuster video games after Pong. In Japan, where the game was developed by Taito in 1978, it even caused a shortage of 100-yen pieces (the coin used in arcade machines there). The game was no less popular in the U.S. so of course there was a port for the popular Video Computer System (Atari 2600). It became the first killer app for a video game console and was responsible for quadrupling Atari 2600 sales. In 1980, the year that Space Invaders was released for the Atari 2600, a tournament was held to determine the best Space Invaders player. Four people were picked from four regional competitions to compete in the final in New York. A total of 10,000 people participated from all of the regions combined. It wasn&#8217;t the first video game competition but the Space Invaders Championship was the first such event on a large scale and is the predecessor of today&#8217;s eSports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,16],"tags":[2565,225,2564],"class_list":["post-16248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atari-2600","category-retro-games","tag-2565","tag-atari","tag-space-invaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33284,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16248\/revisions\/33284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}