We’d rather have a packet of Space Raiders.
It’s probably a contentious thought, but does Space Invaders really need to keep coming back? We get it, the game was important. Is it fun to play Space Invaders in the year of our lord 2020? God, no. Not in the slightest. The game, in anything close to its original form, simply doesn’t hold up. But taking a 1978 game to task for being dated is just daft. Taking a compilation of Space Invaders-adjacent games to task for being utterly redundant, though? That’s our pleasure and privilege.
See, this is like the kid brother of expansive compilation Space Invaders: The Invincible Collection, packing a mere three games to the full set’s nine. A third of the games. To give Space Invaders Forever due credit, they probably chose the most interesting titles for this digest, but unfortunately that isn’t saying much given what’s on offer. As we said, Space Invaders simply isn’t that interesting of a game, and it’s only really been overhauled into something interesting a handful of times. Space Invader ’95: Attack of the Lunar Loonies springs to mind, uncollected since Taito Legends 2 and sorely absent both here and in the Invincible Collection. So what do we have here?
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