Cash Invaders

Moby ID: 18983

Released: December 22, 2002 on DOS
Credits: 10 people

Moby Score: n/a
Critics: 70% (1)
Players: (2)
Collected By: 2 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay: Arcade
Shooter
Setting: Sci-fi / futuristic

Business Model: Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain
Media Type: Download
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

Description

In Cash Invaders you control a space ship at the bottom of the screen while shooting at aliens. It's like Space Invaders, except when you shoot one of the alien ships, they drop cash in the form of gold or silver coins, hence the name Cash Invaders.

You can collect this money to buy power-ups. There are many different power-ups including, extra life, machine gun, shield, and boomerang. As you collect these power-ups, they slowly diminish over time and you have to buy more. You fight the aliens through 100 levels of intense action. Every level, it gets harder. After every 10 levels there is a bonus level where each of the aliens is marked with a number, shoot them in the correct order to score bonus points.

As you go through the game, you will be faced with many challenges. Some of these challenges include stronger enemies, faster enemies, enemies that try to kamikaze, and levels that move too fast for your ship unless you buy the speed-up. The game includes a high score list that also tells you what date you scored it on.

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Credits (DOS version)

10 People (1 developers, 9 thanks)

Programming and graphics

Bas de Reuver

Some other people made vital contributions to this game, they are

Evert-Jan Goelema (for explaining a lot of BP stuff and the linked-list code)
Steven Henk Don (for the keyboard handling code and a CRT replacement)
Mike Wiering (for some VGA and sprite example sources)
Ethan Brodsky (for the excellent SMIX - the game would be silent without it)
Christian Schneider (for modifying SMIX for use in protected mode)
Software of Sweden - for the joystick handling code
Navajo Broere (for testing and feedback)
Arne Beenakker (for testing and feedback)
Simon Leijendekker (for testing and feedback)

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Critics

Average score: 70% (based on 1 ratings)

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Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 2 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Trivia

Development

The player and enemy explosion animations are sampled from a rented VHS tape with the movie Independence Day. More specifically, it's the first explosions on the ground in the scene where the UFO fighters swarm the army base.

Sound Effects

Two sound effect samples were taken from the game Gore: Ultimate Soldier: an Uzi shot and a bullet impact sound. The bullet impact sound is heard when hitting the shields, first seen in level 7. The coin catching sound effect was created by recording the sound of some (then new Euro) coins thrown together.

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MobyGames ID: 18983

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Contributors to this Entry

Game added by VortexS130.

Additional contributors: Pseudo_Intellectual, BdR.

Game added August 31, 2005. Last modified February 22, 2023.