Galaga is a fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco in. Download: Galaga.nes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And off the screen in set patterns without firing at the player's ship or trying to crash into it. Galaga is one of my favorite arcade games from the 1980's. I spent countless hours playing this game in the arcade while growing up in the 80s. I hope you enjoy playing this free version online. No tokens required to play these video games! Free 80s Arcade is a 100% free online arcade games website.
.: September 1981.: December 1981 Mode(s), Upright, cabaret, and cocktail 3 × @ 3.072 Sound 1 × Namco WSG (3-channel mono) @ 3.072 1 × Namco 54xx @ 1.536 Display, orientation (19-inch ) Galaga, pronounced, is a Japanese developed and published by Japan and by in in 1981. It is the sequel to 1979's. The gameplay of Galaga puts the player in control of a spacecraft which is situated at the bottom of the screen, with enemy aliens arriving in formation at the beginning of a stage, either trying to destroy, collide with, or capture the spaceship, with the player progressing every time alien forces are vanquished.
Galaga is one of the most commercially successful games from the. The arcade version of it has been ported to many consoles, and it has had several sequels. In 2011, the game celebrated its 30th anniversary with the release of for. Gameplay screenshot The objective of Galaga is to score as many points as possible by destroying insect-like enemies. The player controls a starfighter that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield.
Enemies swarm in groups in a formation near the top of the screen, and then begin flying down toward the player, firing bullets at and attempting to crash into them. In later stages, some enemies even break from an entering group in a frantic attempt to crash into the player. The when the player's last fighter is lost by colliding with an enemy, being hit by an enemy shot, or being captured. Galaga introduces new features from its predecessor,. Among these are the ability for two player shots to exist on-screen at once rather than one, a 'hit/miss ratio' statistic at the end of the game, and a bonus 'Challenging Stage' that occurs at Stage 3 and every fourth stage thereafter, in which a series of 40 enemies fly onto and off the screen, 8 at a time, and moving in set patterns without firing at the player's ship or trying to crash into it.
When you destroy a group of enemies, you are awarded 1K-3K pts. These stages award a 10K-point bonus if the player manages to destroy every enemy, but otherwise 100 bonus points for every enemy destroyed. Another feature in the game is for enemies to randomly transform and organize into a certain formation, which awards the player bonus points if they manage to successfully destroy all three (1K to 3K points), from levels 4 on, and repeating every 256 levels.
Another gameplay feature new to Galaga is the ability for enemies to capture the player's fighter. While the player is in control of just one fighter, a 'boss' Galaga (which takes two hits to kill, the first hit will turn it blue) will periodically attempt to capture the fighter using a. If successful, the fighter joins the enemy formation as a satellite to the boss Galaga which captured it. The captive fighter becomes an enemy, turns red, and likewise, it can be shot and destroyed, awarding the player 1K points on its destruction. The player can still fire while being captured up to the point their ship 'touches' the captor, which could be considered an opportunity to shoot the captor down before it can manage to successfully capture the player. Captive fighters can be freed by destroying the boss Galaga towing it while it is attacking.
The freed fighter will then combine with the player's fighter who freed them and form a Dual Fighter, offering doubled firepower but with the disadvantage of a target twice as large. If the player destroys the captor while it is still in formation, the captured fighter will not be rescued, and will instead fly away after a diving run (assuming the player does not destroy it) to appear in the next stage as a satellite for another boss Galaga where it can again be rescued. A very small section in the middle of the Dual Fighter is immune to enemy fire. The default setting for extra lives awards them at scores of 20K, 70K, and every multiple of 70K, though other settings can be used. However, no matter the settings, after at 1,000,000 points, no more extra lives are awarded.
Additionally, the 2nd player may have up to 8-digit scores; this is the first video arcade game to have this feature. The high score display, however, maxes out at six digits. Bugs Galaga has an exploitable bug that can cause the attackers to randomly stop firing shots at the player. In addition, similar to the in, a bug exists in Galaga in which the game 'rolls over' from Stage 255 to Stage 0 (256). Depending on the difficulty setting of the machine, this can cause the game to stall, requiring that the machine be reset or power-cycled in order to start a new game. Galaga also contains a bug that allows the player to briefly control the spacecraft during the game's. This section needs expansion.
You can help. ( September 2012) Reception Review score Publication Score rated the arcade version 5 out of 5 stars. Scored the Game Boy version of the game a 24 out of 40 upon release. The NES version received a score of 80% from upon release, and later 8 out of 10 from. Legacy In 1996, listed the arcade version at number 96 in their 'Top 100 Games of All Time', citing the innovations it added to the formula, in particular that ships can be captured and rescued and players can gain two simultaneous shots. In an article on -based arcade game emulation, 's Eric Berlin placed Galaga among his top 7 best holding-up titles from the past, and he described the game as one of the few titles of the era to add new twists to the Space Invaders formula by allowing the aliens to capture your ship. Ranked it the 19th best video game in 2001.
The staff felt that it was still the best shooter of its kind. It has been included among the by various other publications, including (in 1997, 2001 and 2006 ), (in 2004 and 2009 ), and magazine. Records The world record highest score for Galaga was set in October 2018 by Armando Gonzalez of. Gonzalez scored 17,684,050 points based on Marathon settings.
On February 7, 2019, Mike Thompson of achieved a world record high score of 6,679,190 points on the much harder Tournament settings. The Rapid-Fire settings (depression of the fire button causing continuous shooting) world record is held by Jon E. Klinkel of, with a score of 3,210,590 points. In 2001, Namco released Ms. Pacman / Galaga Class of 1981 as part of a compilation.
The world record highest score for Galaga based on the Fast-Shoot Speed settings (where bullets are fired at a much faster rate than the original fire version) is held by Daniel Rodriguez of, who achieved 4,300,360 points. In popular culture. Galaga Christmas tree ornament In 1983, shortly after Galaga was released in the United States, sent a Galaga machine to for him to practice prior to shooting the movie. He practiced for two months and the Galaga arcade unit makes two appearances in the film. In 2007, the TV series included a submarine named, in honor of the arcade game. Writers of the series would often play the game between writing sessions. In 2009, the greeting card company released a shaped like a Galaga arcade machine, complete with sound clips from the game.
In the 2013 novel University, set in the 1980s, one segment focuses on a marathon Galaga session, with wheelchair-bound freshman Dwight Manning making a run at the then-existing world record. The TV show shows the character playing Galaga in an arcade on episode 15 of season 7, released on the 30th of March, 2018. Researchers at, having discovered the remains of a prehistoric shark, named the species based on Galaga due to the resemblance of the shark's teeth to the game's enemy spacecraft.
Film Galaga appeared in the following movies: (1983), (1984), (1987), and (2015) as the first game that attacks. Galaga appeared briefly in 2012's. Upon entering 's, catches an agent playing Galaga and remarks, 'That man is playing Galaga. Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.'
After the Avengers' team meeting, the agent returns to his game. Video game The Galaga boss is an item in. Players can throw the boss at enemies, and the boss will then proceed to use its to lift the opponents away. The Galaga boss returns as an item in. A medley of the music from Galaga also appears in the game, arranged by composer Yusuke Takahama. Television series An animated television series entitled Galaga Chronicles is planned.
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