Space Invaders in Paris

My kids are in Paris right now and have been sending me texts and photos of all their adventures so that I feel like I am part of their holiday. This is a recent selection of photos that they sent.

They noticed a couple of these little space invaders and when they looked them up to find why they were on buildings, they found that Invader is a French artist that has secretly been placing his mosaic work of alien invaders all over Paris for the last 20 years!

After they became aware, they started searching for them as they walked around Paris. It became an Invader treasure hunt!

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Invader and Space Invaders

Let's find out more ... Invader is an artist that used to play an arcade game called Space Invaders. It came out in 1978 and was hugely popular in the 1980's when he was a child. Space Invaders is one of the most addictive games that has ever been made and it's very simplistic. You are a space ship who must destroy the invading enemy space ships as they descend upon your little 8-bit world. You use the [SPACE] bar to fire your gun at them and blow each ship to pieces. Flash Invader modelled his mosaics on the pixelated art used in the game.

The game's not very trendy anymore and arcade and computer games have become much more sophisticated but Invader was sad when he was playing this game because he was thinking of all those little aliens and invaders stuck in the screen of the computer, so he decided to secretly free them all in Paris.
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I expect they will be on the lookout for more space Invaders as they walk around the city!

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