They're baaaack. Twenty-five years after Space Invaders first had kids stealing quarters from Mom's purse, the videogame icons have reappeared on pop culture's radar. Once confined to arcades, they now adorn bridges, buildings, and sidewalks around the world. The urban invasion started as a solo art project in 1998, when an incognito Parisian - who calls himself Space Invader - cemented tile mosaics of the pixelated posse in a few very public places. Inspired imitators spread the extraterrestrial army to other locales, and now Invader is launching a global multiplayer offensive through his Web site (www.space-invaders.com). The site lets fans purchase maps of invaded cities as well as do-it-yourself kits starting around $85; he says he's received photos of others' handiwork from as far afield as Bogota, Madrid, and Osaka. With an instruction book planned for 2004 that explains where to plaster the creatures - and how not to get caught - the game is far from over.
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