"Space Invaders Extreme for the Nintendo DS has really sparked a resurgence of interest in the arcade classic...both in the gaming world and the world of fashion. Only a cool retro game like Space Invaders can pull off something like this. Those pixelated aliens are so damn cute, they're trendy. Cute and trendy enough to fly over peoples' heads so they don't realize how much of a gaming dork you are, at least. Accessorize yourself with this stuff and you'd probably even make perverted-vide..."

"In 1977 Tomohiro Nishikado, a 33-year-old Japanese computer programmer, was a company employee, like millions of others. In his spare time he played video table-tennis, manoeuvring white paddles up and down a black-and-white TV screen to return a white blob of a ball to his opponent. In the amusement arcades, he had noticed a new game called Breakout, which involved moving a paddle from side to side to hit a ball, in order to destroy a series of blocks at the top of the screen.

One day, Ni..."