This is the game that originally inspired me to computer programming.

I first stumbled upon this game in the 1990s in my school’s computer laboratory. I wanted to develop something similar on my own but the little GW-BASIC programming I knew and the very limited access to computers (<= 3 hours per month) I had wasn’t sufficient to take on an endeavour like this. I did write a few simple text adventure games and a BRICKS clone too. But writing an invaders-like game was too challenging for me back then.

Finally, three years ago, I sat down one afternoon and fulfilled that childhood dream of mine.

Here’s the result: https://susam.net/invaders.html

It’s a single HTML page with no external dependencies, so you are very welcome to “View Source”.