The player controls a space ship in the bottom part of. The game was developed to compete with Taito Corporations Space Invaders, released a year earlier, and featured a similar space theme. GALAXIAN (Atari 2600) Video Game - Brand New Vintage 1983 FACTORY SEALED. It was released by Namco in Japan and a few months later by Midway Games in North America. A plain and repetitive starfield scrolls in the background. Galaxian is a shooter arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. A competently programmed port of the 1979 coin-op classic, Galaxian for the Atari VCS contains 35 aliens per wave while the original features 46. Release years by system: 1979 Arcade (Namco Galaxian) 1982 Atari 8-bit family, tabletop LCD game 1983 Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Commodore VIC-20 1984 Family Computer, MSX 1990 Famicom Disk System 1995 Game Boy (Galaga & Galaxian) 1997 LCD pocket game 2001 Mobile phone 2009 Wii Virtual Console Notes. The player defeats one swarm, only to have it replaced by another more aggressive and challenging swarm in the next stage. Home / Games / ATARI 2600 Games / Galaxian. The ship can only have one shot on screen at a time. Swarm after swarm of alien armies attack the player's ship that moves left and right at the bottom of the wraparound screen. Along with its immediate sequel, it was one of the most popular games during the golden age of arcade video games. It spawned a successful sequel, Galaga, in 1981, and the lesser known Gaplus and Galaga '88 in 19 respectively, as well as many later ports and adaptations. This is my review of Galaxian for the Atari 2600.I mentioned in my review that the homebrew, Galagon by Champ Games is a great alternative to Galaxian, altho.
The game was highly popular for Namco upon its release, and has been a focus of competitive gaming ever since.
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A fixed shooter game in which the player controls a spaceship at the bottom of the screen, and shoots enemies descending in various directions, it was designed to compete with Taito Corporation's successful earlier game Space Invaders (which was released in the previous year, and also imported to the US by Midway Games). Atari 5200 Atari 8-bit Apple II Arcade Games Astrocade Commodore 64 Colecovision Cassette Vision Famicom Disk System FM-7 Game Boy Color Mobile MSX NES PC NEC PC88 VIC-20 Sharp X1 Sinclair ZX81/Spectrum.