Ten fun facts about Megamania

Fact 1
The game took less than a year to develop and fix all of the bugs.

Fact 2
In a 1982 advertisement for the game, the band The Tubes played a theme song about the game.

Fact 3
In 2010, the game was made for Xbox 360 and Windows PC.

Fact 4
The game was made for the Atari 2600 and the Atari 5200.

Fact 5
If a player beats the 999,999 score, then the game is over.

Fact 6
Activision allowed players who scored above 45,000 ppints to send in a picture and receive a Megamaniac emblem.

Fact 7
Megamania is also very similar to the game "Astro Blaster" released by Sega in 1981.

Fact 8
The game also resembles "Space Invaders" but does not use aliens. The game uses hamburgers, steam irons and bow ties.

Fact 9
It was also released for the Atari 8-bit game but there aren't any differences between that version and the Atari 5200 version.

Fact 10
The spacecraft in the game looks like a cross between the U.S.S. Enterprise and the Klingon battlecruiser from Star Trek.

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