One of the coolest arcade games comes to your ds

User Rating: 8.5 | Space Invaders Extreme DS
Remove Phantom Hourglass from your ds after beating it for the 18th time and try out Space Invaders Extreme, the updated version of an awesome old school shooter. Celebrating its 30th birthday, you just can't go wrong. SPE plays very similar to the others, but with a few new things. For one, items come by much better, and are a lot cooler. You have a fire gun that blows up on impact, a shield generator, a spread gun, and my personal favorite, the laser. Also, there a few things to distract you from the fact that you have been playing the same stage 60 times to no success: the roulette, and the round. The roulette is basically a spinning circle of enemies: you shoot one, and you may gain a power, such as life up or the power to freeze the invaders in their tracks. Round is basically a mini-game that charges you with destroying a bunch of enemies. If you win, you get Fever Mode, where you are super powered and gain "jackpots" from floating ufos. Speaking of which, these two modes are obtained by shooting down ufos. Though it may annoy you that the game interrupts its play for this, smashing down a particularly hard legion of invaders with a strong gun more than makes up for it. As for the graphics, they truly bring life into this old arcade hit. Invaders and bosses still are constructed out of 8-bit boxes, while lasers, backgrounds, music, and explosions are all beautifal and neat. This may seem weird at first, but it is sort of interesting when you think about it. The game is quite short, but very hard. When your done, after a few once-and-a-while playthroughs, your really done. Unfortunetly, as oppossed to Contra 4, the ultimate anniversery blue-print, this game features nothing but itself. But for 20 bucks, you can enjoy old-school arcade fun in your living room! I'd suggest you get this, whether you burned your dad's money on it 30 years ago, or just want to get a taste of how old games were done right.