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APPlicable: Space Invaders Edition

Show your love for the OG extraterrestrials by decking out your iPhone with Space Invaders apps.

June 24, 2010

This week's APPlicable is all about apps starring those icons of classic gaming, the aliens from Space Invaders. In other words, the invasion that started in 1978 has now completely taken over your iPhone.

Space Invaders Calculator
Space Invaders Calculator Credit: TAITO Corporation

Space Invaders Calculator

You might be thinking, "But I already have a calculator on my iPhone, why do I need another one?" Well, does it make Space Invaders sounds while you're doing your calculations? I didn't think so. As an added bonus, as you compute, you clear off the attacking invaders that appear to have taken over the keys.

($.99) Free version available

Space Invaders Flashlight
Space Invaders Flashlight Credit: TAITO Corporation

Space Invaders Flashlight

The Space Invaders Flashlight is part flashlight and part sound toy, with an exploding invader as your light source. Let the invaders guide you home at night; after all, they've made it thousands of miles through space, so they must be able to find their way in the dark...

Free

Space Invaders Clock
Space Invaders Clock Credit: TAITO Corporation

Space Invaders Clock

Watch your life tick away in retro style with the Space Invaders Clock. As the seconds tick away to the sound of invaders, the screen fills up with 8-bit aliens organizing an attack. You're safe using this app to tell time as long as Jeff Goldblum is wrong, and this isn't, in fact, a countdown.

Free

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