I love the fact that Space Invaders only got harder and faster because it loaded all the invaders at the same time but the more you killed the less it had to process. This led to it getting faster because the processor had less work.
Maybe on the Atari. On most systems the invaders were sprites, and took no processor time. Sprites were handled by the video chip in hardware. The speed up was preprogrammed there.
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