Been playing a variety of Space Invaders games via my Switch lately... I'm finding that the more I play Space Invaders, the more I "get it," and it's the sort of old-school arcade game that becomes more fun once you get a little better at it. I'm still awful at the OG Space Invaders (and its most similar variants), but later entries are a bit more approachable. Namely Super Space Invaders 91 (or its essentially-the-same variant, Majestic Twelve), which lets you play through a variety of stages and just keep putting in pretend quarters to keep playing. That take on Space Invaders is pretty great, adding power-ups, bosses, and even 2-player co-op.

The Invisible Collection also includes a couple oddities that used the OG Space Invaders circuit board. First up is Lunar Rescue, which I really dig. You control a lunar pod that descends to a base, avoiding asteroids on the way down -- and then you return to the space ship, shooting UFOs that try to stop you. Kind of two games in one, and surprisingly addicting. The other odd game is Space Cyclone, which is just a bad and weird-looking shooter. There's something cursed and sort of creepypasta about that one.

The other standout game in the collection is Space Invaders Extreme, which is to Space Invaders what Pac-Man Championship was to Pac-Man. It's intense, wild, crazy, and... extreme. Great power-ups, bosses, and bonus stages (which offer timed mini-challenges). I think I prefer Extreme 2 though, which I played before on the DS. It's a shame that couldn't be ported over, because I really love the music in that one a lot more than the music of Extreme 1.

Not included in the Invinsible Collection, but given as a separate game (a bonus, I guess) is the very interesting Arkanoid vs. Space Invaders. This was a mobile game apparently, and it's essentially Arkanoid (Brick Breaker) with touch controls, and you bounce back projectiles to defeat the space invaders. A very clever idea, and it plays nicely on the big Switch screen. (Handheld only, since it requires the touch screen.) The stages get challenging, and you have to use power-ups and character-specific special moves wisely.

So yeah, recommend picking this one up, but wait for a sale. The base price ($60) is pretty ridiculous, but the $24 sale price it regularly goes for is much more reasonable. (Technically 11 games, though I'd really call it a more of a 7-game collection if being more honest about it. At any rate, 2-4ish bucks a game is fine.)