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Win rare goodies in our Space Invaders Extreme contest! photo

In my recent chat with Space Invaders Extreme's lead artist, I pretty much openly gushed about my excitement over both the original game and the version for 360 that he was working on. You can imagine how I reacted when I found out that Destructoid would be receiving a limited edition print hand signed by Space Invaders creator Tomohiro Nishikado as a giveaway prize for a contest. Um ... do I have to give it away?

I kid, of course -- I'm gonna give it away, along with two codes for the 360 version of the game, because I'm generous like that. To win one of these three prizes, show me a screenshot of your high score in your favorite Space Invaders game in the comments. To prove it's yours, please hold up a piece of paper with Destructoid.com written on it in the picture.

There are plenty of Space Invaders games to choose from, and you have a week to work on it since the contest ends on May 11th. The top winner will take home the signed print, while two runners up will win digital copies of the game. We'll ship the grand prize anywhere in the world. Do your best!


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HarassmentPanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:16
HarassmentPanda
OH YEAH! I've been on a serious retro arcade binge lately. I've upped my Galaga, Dig Dug, and (Ms.) Pac-Man scores--this is a perfect excuse to work on Space Invaders.

How are you picking the winners? I feel like it's much easier to get a high score on some versions of Space Invaders than others, as later games tended to have more ways to get points, bonuses, etc.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:17
The-Excel
So is this a score attack or what?
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:19
A New Challenger
Perfect excuse to give more attention to the DS version of Extreme that I've kind of neglected ever since getting through Arcade mode once.

Or I could be a masochist and try playing the original...
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:23
Holyetheline
The only high score I'm working on right now is Tetris... but I'll give this a shot!
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:26
Colette Bennett
@HarassmentPanda -- Well, we considered doing it by highest score, but since we were aware of that, we may end up choosing highest scores within each game. Grand Prize winner will probably go to a high score with something creative added into the mix. I won't say what that is -- gonna leave that to you guys :)
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:26
The-Excel
Screw it, then.
Dead Movie Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:27
Dead Movie Star
Some of you may be good, but none of you are nine billion eight hundred fifty seven million three hundred ninety one thousand seven hundred and five points good.
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:40
A New Challenger
SPACE INVADERS XTREME!



aimlesssoybeanplant's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:41
aimlesssoybeanplant


The eagle eyed of you will notice the bandage thats currently holding the end of my finger on, else I would be actually playing said guitar. Not that I'm bitter or anything...
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:49
Dexter345
Oh, it's actually a high score competition? Nevermind then, I suck at Space Invaders...
Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:58
Colette Bennett
Eh, I don't want to alienate people (no pun intended). Just show us your score creatively. That's all. Don't worry about high scores.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 15:59
The-Excel
Oh, okay.
Majora's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:10
Majora
<a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/?action=view¤t=Highscore.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/Highscore.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Thats my High score =]
Majora's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:10
Majora
<a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/?action=view¤t=Highscore.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/Highscore.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

18,691,510 btw

Thats my High score =]
Majora's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:11
Majora
<a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/?action=view¤t=Highscore.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/Highscore.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

18,691,510 Btw, my cam is crap =[
Majora's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:12
Majora
Oh ffs

[img]<a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/?action=view¤t=Highscore.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d194/pkmntrainerkai/Highscore.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>[/img]
Majora's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:14
Majora
Oh ffs , sorry guys forget it, I just completely screwed up the comments. =[
Caster Tr0y 357's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:28
Caster Tr0y 357
give it away, give it away, give it away now!
give it away, give it away, give it away now!

that's all i have to say to this story
A New Challenger's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:40
A New Challenger


There you go, Majora.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 16:50
Chronic Logic
Oh lawd, if it's going to be a highscore competition, I might have to play a game without losing for DAYS!
djnintendo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 17:01
djnintendo
<img src="http://lowscore.net/dj/dtoidinvader.jpg">
djnintendo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 17:02
djnintendo
Majora's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 18:19
Majora
Cheers a new challanger, dj nintendo thats a preety insane score
theredpepperofdoom's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 22:03
theredpepperofdoom
OMG do want rare goodies. I will jump in this contest ASAP.
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 22:15
Furnimus
Dude, all you have to be kidding! You guys don't know what a high score is. BOW to my score. BOW!!! Colette, you might as well give me the prize now, and call Guinness, 'cause I'm goin' in the books baby!!!



Aw yeah! I have been practicing for my entire life, and now it all really comes together. It is my destiny to be a professional Space Invaders player. I have been chosen by fate!
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 22:45
The-Excel

God, I'm stupid.
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 22:45
Furnimus
Oh. My. Gosh.

It took me 6 hours and 35 minutes of nonstop playing to get my last score. Somehow though, after I changed my underwear and devoured 3 large pizzas, I did better in just a few minutes -- way better!!! I'm a rockstar already! My insane killer bling is from my 100's of won Space Invaders contests.

I... I don't even know what to say about that score. I feel like this can't be happening, like I am too good... Am I sick? Sick like mad crazy maybe!



Swine Flu is targeted to make 16-25 year old males Space Invader superheros CONFIRMED. "Why Swine Flu Definitely Causes People to Be Amazing at Space Invaders." By Jim Sterling.
SiK99's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2009 22:57
SiK99
Destructoid > Laser = High Score of 3,645,330 That Stage 4 is killing me.



Link to larger pic
g4torturedsoul's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/05/2009 08:53
g4torturedsoul
I need alot more practice a copy of the game for my 360 would help.

ACoconut89's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/05/2009 14:45
ACoconut89
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa243/ACoconut89/DSCF1280.jpg

I used the scoreboard to show my love for Destructoid by changing the names and getting different high scores (Sorry if you are a Mrs i didn't know, and Colette wouldn't fit with the 6 letter limit). I'm not very creative so this is the best i could come up with.
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/05/2009 19:45
Monodi
aww man I do not have any Space Invaders game... does a Flash game count?
Super Drybones's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2009 09:46
Super Drybones
I must say I did pretty well on the Destructoid version of Space Invaders.

The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/06/2009 23:42
The-Excel
@Super Drybones:
What kind of bounding box is that? A cannon shaped like that must make dodging needlessly frustrating.
Super Drybones's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 00:06
Super Drybones
@The-Excel
It did, I almost lost a life around 42,000,000 but luckily I finished my pizza so I was quick to respond.
Also what is a bounding box, did you make that up you silly man?
calpis's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 15:34
calpis
riomccarthy's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 16:37
riomccarthy
So I'm being a dork once again, but this time I made myself a super powered Space Invaders mask to help me get a killer score! Sadly.. that didn't really work, but I had a lot of fun doing it anyways!

I played at http://www.spaceinvaders.de and got 18,280




I was even wearing my Video Games Live shirt that has the little guy on it, but I was an idiot and forgot to hold up my Dtoid note on the first two.


Luckily I remembered by the time I took the actual picture of the score.

Hope you get a good laugh out of that :P
Jack Maverick's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 17:34
Jack Maverick
Hurray for built-in webcams so I can't take a picture of myself and my score without the use of mirrors and whatnot. So the first picture contains a very low quality picture of my score. However, using my superb art skills, I redrew it so I could have the score and myself in the same picture.

Also, this gives me an excuse to post myself wearing a silly hat.

norm9's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 17:39
norm9
Here's my entry with the classic Space Invaders. I might try one later with the Extreme version.

HammerShark's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 22:43
HammerShark
HOWDY!
HammerShark's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 23:09
HammerShark
I ABSOLUTELY ABHOR THE USE OF GUN VIOLENCE!
EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF ALIENS...
I GET A LITTLE "TRIGGER HAPPY"! ^_^
AND THEY GET A LITTLE
"D-E-D. DED!"
- Clown (John Leguizamo in movie: "Spawn")
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 23:52
Furnimus
New development. I talked with my talent adviser after my last mind-boggling entry, and he told me I needed to better. "Even better?" I asked...

After drinking 27 Red Bulls, and from them obtaining the power to lift a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bathroom house (I could have, but my manager wouldn't let me), I went to work on my next high score merely an hour after my last entry. Three days later, without ever taking a break, I have a new score.

I have already made enough money that I got the Destructoid helmet put on my grill. They used two new gemstones that cost 17 billion dollars each (plus sales tax in AK, FL, and HI). The red gemstone is "destructeon" and the green is "toideus." Only myself and Michael Winslow own some of these precious stones.

I also bought more jewelry, and acquired a crown made from the bones of baby pterodactyls. The gemstones are kidney stones from the Loch Ness monster. Did you know that the Loch Ness monster's favorite band is Styx? Yes sir, Styx. So... without further adieu, my bling. Oh and the score that will melt everyone's face into a pile of melted-face-juice-liquid-stuff.



Isn't the craftsmanship on the helmet awesome? That's what scores like that get you.

Can I sue if I get banned for being too amazing at Space Invaders? DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, Glocks.
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/07/2009 23:55
Furnimus
[NOTE: My quite apparently stupid manager posted the last entry, and forgot to resize the picture! What an idiot! Here is the same post, but fixed. He is so fired.]

New development. I talked with my talent adviser after my last mind-boggling entry, and he told me I needed to better. "Even better?" I asked...

After drinking 27 Red Bulls, and from them obtaining the power to lift a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bathroom house (I could have, but my manager wouldn't let me), I went to work on my next high score merely an hour after my last entry. Three days later, without ever taking a break, I have a new score.

I have already made enough money that I got the Destructoid helmet put on my grill. They used two new gemstones that cost 17 billion dollars each (plus sales tax in AK, FL, and HI). The red gemstone is "destructeon" and the green is "toideus." Only myself and Michael Winslow own some of these precious stones.

I also bought more jewelry, and acquired a crown made from the bones of baby pterodactyls. The gemstones are kidney stones from the Loch Ness monster. Did you know that the Loch Ness monster's favorite band is Styx? Yes sir, Styx. So... without further adieu, my bling. Oh and the score that will melt everyone's face into a pile of melted-face-juice-liquid-stuff.



Isn't the craftsmanship on the helmet awesome? That's what scores like that get you.

Can I sue if I get banned for being too amazing at Space Invaders? DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, Glocks.
C4NT1's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/08/2009 01:06
C4NT1


It is!! o_0
DevinKills's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/08/2009 04:44
DevinKills
Kasreyn's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/08/2009 13:10
Kasreyn
I had to create a new savefile and did a single run of trying hard. I'm usually much better I promise ;)

Been playing this a lot on trains and will pick it up again soon/now!



dtoidnote held by childhood toy :)
djnintendo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/08/2009 13:37
djnintendo
i would have spent more time on making up a ridiculous costume instead of whippin' the games ass if i knew that would have helped my chances...
ninchaus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/08/2009 18:12
ninchaus
I traveled through space to try to win this contest.
<a href="http://s592.photobucket.com/albums/tt2/ninchaus1/?action=view¤t=spaceinvaders.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt2/ninchaus1/spaceinvaders.jpg" border="0" alt="destructiod space invader extreme contest entry"></a>
Check the name at the bottom for the Destructoid part.
ninchaus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/08/2009 18:16
ninchaus
HammerShark's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/08/2009 20:05
HammerShark
I KNOW HIGH SCORING DOESN'T REALLY MATTER MUCH NOW.
I'M JUST SO PROUD...
It took me a handful of tries...
I swear.. it feels like forever trying to beat your old score...
But when I finally BLASTED PAST MY OLD SCORE w/ SHRAPNEL
I was just SMILING AND wearin' alien guts for trophies all day long.
LET'S HOPE IT HITS THE SPOT. Check me out in High Scores.





quoting my previous post:
This game is addicting once you get the hang of it.
It takes more strategy than I initially thought...
My hand trembles a little whenever I lose a life.
I took it PERSONALLY.
Those dang aliens must PAY!!!
That's how fun it is. =D
DevinKills's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/09/2009 01:19
DevinKills
lol at this guy ^^^^
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