

Bonus Fighters are awarded periodically throughout the game, as players reach specific point values, as dictated by the 'Bonus Life' dip switch setting. Alien formations also become more complex, making the aliens harder to shoot. As players progress through each screen, the speed and number of alien attacks increases. A rescued Fighter changes color back to white and links up with the player's current Fighter, doubling its fire power. The Fighter can be retrieved by destroying the Boss that captured it, but players must be careful not to destroy the captured Fighter itself, or that Fighter is lost. A captured Fighter changes color from white to red and stays with that particular Boss until it is destroyed. The Boss Galaga has a tractor beam that can capture the player's Fighter. The top-line Boss Galaga need to be shot twice before they are destroyed. Once all troop lines are formed the Galagans separate and start attacking the player's Fighter in ones, twos and threes.

Galagans fly onto the screen in a variety of formations before forming troop lines at the top of the screen. The Fighter can only move left and right along the bottom of the screen. Galaga is a single-screen shoot-em-up in which the player controls a 'Fighter' spaceship and must defend the home planet against the on-coming hordes of alien invaders called "Galagans". wav files).Īlso, the GameCube version allows the player to insert a limited number of credits, about five or six, by repeatedly pressing the Z button when the game first starts, but then players can only exit to the main menu during gameplay.Arcade Video game published 41 years ago: Galaga © 1981 Namco. This is the first edition of Namco Museum with actual arcade game emulation using the original game ROM images (although voice sounds in "Rolling Thunder", sounds for both "Pole Position" games and "Xevious" are stored in. Galaga '88 (1987) – unlockable, requires a score of 40,000 in Galaga to unlock. It was the second Namco Museum compilation to be released on Nintendo GameCube. A special edition that marks Namco's founding as a toy manufacturing company in 1955.
