“We couldn’t sell any because we had no stock…My mom said ‘Can’t they just give you one, since you’re the one who made it?!’” – Tomohiro Nishikado, creator of Space Invaders
“It was a rather drastic modification…I remember the guy being in charge of that telling me he was going to kill me!” – Yukiharu Sanbe
“I thought at the beginning that this was going to be an easy task. But I had to resort to nitpicking tiny little things since the port was so complete, which made it tough!” – Katsuhisa Ishikawa
“Even if you were thinking of buying a Space Invaders board back then because it was so popular, you basically couldn’t because production just couldn’t keep up with demand.” – Yuuichi Toyama, Taito
“The use of the kunai button is the most important aspect of this game.” – Dedeo, Famitsu Editor