Emulating the Space Invaders look and feel

1 · Tobias V. Langhoff · June 9, 2020, midnight
My attempt at making a Space Invaders emulator look like the arcade cabinet. Check out the emulator’s repository if you’re interested. It’s called Moon Invaders, because the game seemingly takes place on the moon, and I wrote the emulator in Lua (which is the Portuguese name for the Moon). To me, emulation isn’t just making a program that accurately performs the same computations that the original hardware did; it’s also important to me that it captures the feeling of the original game. A popul...