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Space Invaders

British  

noun

  1. a video or computer game, the object of which is to destroy attacking alien spacecraft

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Their algorithm even holds its own in video games like Space Invaders.

From Science Daily Nov. 25, 2024

Most resemble the aliens from the Space Invaders arcade game.

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2024

An artist affixed a mosaic of a Martian from the pioneering 1978 video game Space Invaders to a wall.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2023

This decade also saw the release of Space Invaders, which landed in Japan in 1978.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2021

Two rows in front, Squelch suddenly vommed a party-sized tube of Smarties he'd drunk to win a go on Ant Little's Space Invaders calculator.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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