Space Invaders video is too human

22 Comments by Ross Miller Jul 17th 2006 7:25PM
Filed under: Retro, Video

Space Invaders was a simple little game involving very few pixels on screen at any given time. Which makes it perfect, apparently, to turn every pixel into a human being and create a stop-motion video of the retro shooter in action.

The masterwork of Guillaume Reymond is a result of 4 hours of moving 67 participants around and capturing 390 images to create a 3-minute video that one has to see to believe. We are dumbfounded, can there be anything weirder?

Oh yeah, there's human Pong.

Behold! Booyakasha!

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...Jan... Medi: Jul 17th 2006; 7:32PM

Wow. That took a lot of time, coordination, and people.
If I knew enough people who wanted to spend hours chaning seats, I would do this. Except, I would do Tetris.

Ben: Jul 17th 2006; 7:33PM

That was the best 3 minutes of my life

kleger: Jul 17th 2006; 7:35PM

that was amazing. they should make it playable

The ZeroCorpse: Jul 17th 2006; 7:36PM

That gamevideos.com video thingee never works for me. Yes, I have flash. This applet just never works.

J B Cougar: Jul 17th 2006; 7:39PM

And they said innovation in gaming was dead? How can we get this on the Wii?

deft: Jul 17th 2006; 7:39PM

Wow, just the amount of effort taken is pretty amazing.

Canadian Geese: Jul 17th 2006; 7:40PM

that was awesome... props!

Ryan Williams: Jul 17th 2006; 7:41PM

That is one of the most inspired things I've ever seen.

noizbot: Jul 17th 2006; 7:49PM

Wow, that's actually quite amazing. There's only one thing I can imagine adding to that performance -- a row of people seated at a bottom corner, each person holding up a cardboard square with a number on it used to display score (and perhaps remaining ships). I also sort of wished they let it "play" to the last super speedy ship, but whatever. Very very cool :)

AJ: Jul 17th 2006; 8:15PM

Kinda cool. Far far far too long though.

arrakisman: Jul 17th 2006; 9:40PM

Great Video!! What cheat code where they using. Galaga was the first double shot video game and I think he may have died too many time too.

ogvor: Jul 17th 2006; 9:43PM

Now do tetris!!!!

Sherjan: Jul 17th 2006; 9:48PM

OMG...Is that ingame? ;)

Hart704: Jul 18th 2006; 12:56AM

That was pretty freaking awesome!

Sean: Jul 18th 2006; 1:01AM

LOL

neale: Jul 18th 2006; 1:29AM

yeah zero i get the same problem. not one of them ever does anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvvc-HWMkOU

martin: Jul 18th 2006; 7:31AM

Wow pixel 17 was hot!!! J/k! Anyways, whoever was playing the game sucked!

zero: Jul 18th 2006; 10:04AM

Those graphics were tight!

Lionel: Jul 18th 2006; 2:58PM

I have to give props to the extras and their patience to sit in a different seat for every frame.

trent: Jul 18th 2006; 5:12PM

just wanna add that i have the same prob with gamevideos... im using opera.. wonder if thats it.

sqweek: Jul 24th 2006; 8:50PM

Game videos 's not working here either... I get audio but no video (firefox 1.5.0.4 under linux, flash 7 afaik)

Kyra: Jul 28th 2006; 9:33AM

I love that the small, personal movements (arm crossing, position shifting) of the pixelppl have been captured. It's kind of fun to spot who was the most restless during this long photography session.

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