Galaga

Galaga is a Video game of the type Shoot them up developed by Namco and marketed on Borne of arcade in 1981. It is about the continuation of Galaxian .

Gameplay

The player controls a spaceship which can only move from left to right with the bottom of the screen and which has only one simple shooting. The enemy vessels try to bombard the player. As in Galaxian (also a play of Namco), vessels can go down towards the player and try to kill it by collision or bombardment. Certain vessels (“vessel-mother” or “Galaga boss”) have the possibility of approaching the vessel of the player and of capturing it.

One of the major assets of Galaga compared to its predecessors is the possibility for only one player of playing with two vessels simultaneously. With this intention, the player must carry out the following operation:

  1. to be made capture by a vessel-mother
  2. To let the vessel-mother join her place in top of the screen
  3. To have patience until the vessel-mother, accompanied by the captured vessel, again attacks
  4. Tirer on the vessel-mother and to destroy it (by taking care not to touch the captured vessel)
  5. the captured vessel is placed beside the first vessel of the player

After this operation, the player has two vessels and can thus draw two blows simultaneously. However, he plays with two lives at the same time. He is also twice more vulnerable since its two vessels constitute a target twice larger.

Innovations

Galaga is the first Jeu of arcade which makes it possible only one player simultaneously to play with two vessels. He is also the first Jeu of arcade to comprise “levels no-claims bonus” (called “challenging training courses”) between the levels.

Exploitation

Versions

The Borne of arcade was marketed in September 1981 in Japan and in December 1981 with the the United States, under license Bally Midway.

It was related to Sega SG-1000 in 1983 ( Sega Galaga ), on MSX and Atari 7800 in 1984, on Fujitsu FM-7 and Fujitsu FM-77 in 1985. Versions Sharp MZ2500, BORN (1988, Galaga: Demons off Death ) and Famicom Disk System (1990) arrived thereafter.

Various clone “wild” S or adaptations also was born, sometimes before the exit of the official bearings, like a version Commodore 64, which would be appeared as of 1982.

Republications

Become traditional, Galaga was republished many times, in particular in compilations Namco Museum , through packs or like mini-plays of in original plays (for example Tekken ). The play is amongst other things available on Game Boy, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360 ( via the Xbox Live Arcade) and Wii (the version BORN via the virtual Console).

With the cinema

A terminal of arcade Galaga appears in the films WarGames , The Karate Kid , 260 Stopwatch and Planes, Trains and Automobiles .

Music

The sound preparing of the Galaga , realized by Nobuyuki Ohnogi, is traditional in its kind. The duet Grand Popo Football Club (Ariel Wizman, Nicolas Errèra) uses of them in particular extracts (Sample S) for the title Salami Man .

The series

  • 1979 - Galaxian
  • 1981 - Galaga
  • 1984 - Gaplus (or Galaga 3 )
  • 1987 - Galaga '88
  • 1990 - Galaxian 3
  • 1990 - Galaxian 3 Theater 6: Project Dragoon
  • 1994 - Galaxian 3 Theater 6 J2: Attack off the Zolgear
  • 2000 - Galaga: Destination Earth

External bonds

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