Game: Space in Trouble

Space in Trouble is a clone of Taito's Space Invaders that suffers from sluggish controls. Games like this were once common enough, particularly in the early 80s when there was a huge market for fast-paced Space Invaders variations like Namco's Galaga. To encounter one in 2011 is shocking, even on Facebook. If Space in Trouble was presented to a computer science professor as a proof-of-concept coding project, it would not deserve a grade any higher than a B. That something like this was published with the expectation that people would spend money on playing it ad-free is almost unthinkable.