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I watch my nephew playing call of duty on his xbox 360. Larger than life action figures fire on each other with amazing realisum as bombs explode and tracer fire whiz’s across a 46″ hi def television. How cool is this? When I was a kid playing “Army” in the woods across the street, we were lucky if we had a stick that resembled a gun and all gun fire sound effects were created ourselves, “pew pew”.

It’s totally amazing how far the digital world as come, in particular shooter games. Even as a young adult, for me, electronic games consisted of pinball and slot machines. Then in the late 70′s early 80′s the first digital arcade games starting hitting the market. No one alive at the time can possibly forget Space Invaders. Created in 1978 by a Japanese programmer named Toshihiro Nishikado, the game became hugely popular and according to the developer has created more than 1/2 billion dollars in revenue over the last 25 years. Originally Nishikado wanted to use airplanes as the target but the limited power of the 8080 CPU that was being used, and a desire not to encourage the killing of humans lead him to create the pixelated aliens that are the enemy in the game.

If you have never played the game, there is a online version here where you can try your hand at defeating the invading alien army with your laser cannon.