<p>It's not that am a particular Space Invaders fan per se, but it seemed the ideal icon for my fondness of retro computing and gaming in general.  As I said of this in a post on my retro computing blog, Byte Cellar, this tattoo for me is...
</p><p>"a sort of crude petroglyph found on the walls of the cave of computing history"
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&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000105.php">http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000105.php</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Read the full story&lt;/a&gt; surrounding this, my second glorious tattoo, at my blog.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/35448539@N00">Blake Patterson</a> from Alexandria, VA, USA
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2406460016/">my shiny, new Space Invader tattoo</a>