War of the Worlds (video game) War of the Worlds (video game) War of the Worlds was a monochrome vector arcade game created by Tim Skelly of Cinematronics in 1982. It is based on the H. G. Wells novel "The War of the Worlds". There were two versions of this game, identical in gameplay but differing in graphics. The first version was released by Cinematronics in 1979, and featured black and white vector graphics. A color version was later made in 1982. In terms of gameplay and graphics, and game was essentially a "Space Invaders" clone done using 3-D vector graphics. The player controls a tank
Martian (The War of the Worlds) articles in "ERBZine", the official Burroughs fanzine. In Ian McDonald's short story "The Queen of Night's Aria", a sequel to "The War of the Worlds" published in the 2013 George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois anthology "Old Mars", the Wells Martians are named the Uliri. Martian (The War of the Worlds) Little about the Martians is definitive, the story being told by a first-person narrator. The Martians are described as octopus-like creatures: the "body" consisting of a disembodied head nearly across, having two eyes; a v-shaped, beak-like mouth; and two branches each of eight 'almost whip-like' tentacles, grouped around