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Classic Ads: Galaga

Galaga (ギャラガ ) is a fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan and published by Midway in North America in 1981. It is the sequel to Galaxian, released in 1979. 

The world record high score for Galaga was set in June 1989 by Stephen Krogman of Boca Raton, Florida. Krogman scored 15,999,990 points based on Marathon rules. On January 1, 2011 Andrew Laidlaw of Kirkland, WA claimed the Tournament setting world record (five ships only, set to greatest difficulty) with a score of 4,525,150 points. [Wiki]

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Adam West on the set of Batman, 1966. Photo by Yale Joel.

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Anna Karina

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Computing, 1967 style.

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Psychedelic advertising art illustration, 1968.

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Classic Ads: Defender (1980)

Defender was developed and released by Williams Electronics in 1980. A shooting game featuring two-dimensional (2D) graphics, the game is set on a fictional planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defender was Jarvis’ first video game project, and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids. [Wiki]

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Fashion goes tech, 1960s.

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Monica Vitti on the set of ‘Modesty Blaise’, 1966.