Invinco / Deep Scan

About this game

Invinco / Deep Scan

SEGA partnered with Gremlin industries to release numerous arcade titles during the late 70s and early eighties. Invinco / Deep Scan belongs to the dual series of arcade cabinets which offered players an option to play 2 games in one cabinet.

Invinco is a 1979 Space Invaders clone made by Sega. Though it is essentially the same game as Taito's, the aliens don't just move left and right - one row blinks in and out of view, one row rolls about making it difficult to hit and another has aliens that turn into exploding bombs when hit, taking out everything around them.

Deep Scan is an arcade game released in 1979 by Sega. The game involves commanding a battleship which can drop mines from either the left or right in an attempt to destroy enemy submarines. The player must also avoid mines launched from these submarines, which will increase every time a target is missed. The game also featured a radar on the bottom of the screen, a gaming innovation that would be popularized on the mega-seller Defender two years later, as well as full RGB color graphics, which was still a new feature in 1979.