Question: What is your favourite space related video game? (Either space invaders or defender for me!)

Columbus Flight Directors answered on 6 Oct 2015:

Simon:
Hey RPA another question!

Mmm I dont get alot of time to play video games but I guess one that I really love is Halo! When I was a kid there was a really cool video game called “Astrosmash” on a video game system called Intellivision (that was before computers and the internet, Now thats old skool! Ever heard of it?): check it out:

For Astrosmash:

For Intellivision:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision

Sergio:
Hi RPA,
as part of our training, we do something called simulations. This means that we sit in a control room and we work as if we were doing a real mission. The difference is that the astronauts and the space station are all simulated, and there is someone behind the curtains injecting all the possible anomalies and failures. And we, sitting in the control room, have to react to that and solve all the problems that arise, in order to keep the (simulated) astronauts in the (simulated) Space Station alive!
Sometimes this really looks like a very realistic video game!

For actual video games, I love the Starcraft saga! Played all of it, since the first one came out in 1998.