TIL that during development, Space Invaders had an unintended side effect of causing the game to run faster when there were less aliens onscreen that the computer had to render. Rather than remove this 'bug', the developer decided the the increasing difficulty improved the game and left it as is.

http://www.tofugu.com/2013/04/25/tomohiro-nishikado/



Submitted March 28, 2015 at 06:43PM by InevitableNinja http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30lh3k/til_that_during_development_space_invaders_had_an/