Influence

Retro games have had a considerable influence over a lot of products and creative practises all over the world to this date. I think as designers, particularly those working on the much earlier arcade games, had such rudimentary software to deal with, they had to produce very strong visual icons/characters for users to interact with and recognise.

Space invaders could be said to hold one of the most legendary spots in the hall of fame, especially when considering influential iconography. For starters, 'Invader', a French street artist adopted the little character from the game, created fairly small colourful mosaics of it and to date has stuck them up all over the world, a couple of which I've had the pleasure of stumbling across on various travels.

And a whole load of other stuff has been influenced not just by space invaders, but many of the more iconic arcade games...