Manoau2002 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) Skill Level 1 - Round Ends Sept. 16/14 at 8:00 a.m. forum time From the Galaxian Wikipedia Page Galaxian (ギャラクシアン Gyarakushian?) is an arcade game that was developed by Namco in October 1979. It was published by Namco in Japan and imported to North America by Midway that December. 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). The game was highly popular for Namco upon its release, and has been a focus of competitive gaming ever since. It spawned a successful sequel, Galaga, in 1981, and the lesser known Gaplus and Galaga '88 in 1984 and 1987 respectively, as well as many later ports and adaptations. Along with its immediate sequel, it was one of the most popular games during the golden age of arcade video games. Galaxian expanded on the formula pioneered by Space Invaders. As in the earlier game, Galaxian features a horde of attacking aliens that exchanged shots with the player. In contrast to Space Invaders, Galaxian added an element of drama by having the aliens periodically make kamikaze-like dives at the player's ship, the Galaxip.[1] This made it the first game to feature enemies with individual personalities.[2] The game's plot consists of a title screen that displayed the message "WE ARE THE GALAXIANS / MISSION: DESTROY ALIENS".[3] Galaxian was very successful for Namco and introduced several "firsts". Although not the first color video game, Galaxian took RGB color graphics a step further with multi-colored animated sprites and explosions, different colored fonts for the score and high score, the scrolling starfield, and graphic icons that show the number of lives left and how many stages the player had completed. It also features a crude theme song and more prominent background "music." These elements combine to create a look and feel that would set the standard for arcade games in the 1980s such as Pac-Man. The gameplay is relatively simple. Swarm after swarm of alien armies attack the player's ship that moves left and right at the bottom of the wraparound screen. The ship can only have one shot on screen at a time. The player defeats one swarm, only to have it replaced by another more aggressive and challenging swarm in the next stage. A plain and repetitive starfield scrolls in the background. HSC Record chuckwalla score: 42,350 2008 Updated Season 8 rules are located here Edited September 3, 2014 by Manoau2002 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Galaxian - 9,500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manoau2002 Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 3790 It's kind of weird playing this game again. I have been playing Galaga 90 for turbografx a lot lately and although they are similar they are also very different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 34,080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 The gameplay is relatively simple. Swarm after swarm of alien armies attack the player's ship that moves left and right at the bottom of the wraparound screen. Whoever wrote this has never played Galaxian: it doesn't have a wraparound screen, I might play this round. Galaxian is one of my favorite CV games. Taking pix of my TV screen is a pain in the butt though since I don't have a smart phone. If you don't mind, I'd like to save taking a photo of the TV in the event I break 40K, which would be a new high for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manoau2002 Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 Whoever wrote this has never played Galaxian: it doesn't have a wraparound screen, I might play this round. Galaxian is one of my favorite CV games. Taking pix of my TV screen is a pain in the butt though since I don't have a smart phone. If you don't mind, I'd like to save taking a photo of the TV in the event I break 40K, which would be a new high for me. Taking a picture isn't required when posting a score. A lot of us do it to add to the fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patbb Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 6,460 Emulated I don't have the cart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 16,160 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 20,270 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 63,510. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 25,880 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed1475 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 28,180 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Galaxian - 15,620 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 35,060 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 6660 good port! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 (edited) Ignore these scores for now. I restarted my emulator and compared the speed to the video linked above. ColEm 2.9 doesn't play full screen on my crappy PC at full speed. I have to reduce screen size to play full speed. These scores below don't count. Galaxian - 24,140 Galaxian - 35,480 Edited September 14, 2014 by CapitanClassic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colecovision Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 21,990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonPedro Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 12,720 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cruise Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 23,760 Need more practice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manoau2002 Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) Round Totals northcoastgamer 63510spiceware 35060darthkur 34080ed1475 28180Electric Adventures 23760colecovision 21990roadrunner 16160jblenkle 15620Donpedro 12720s.baz 6660patbb 6460manoau2002 3790 Round Points northcoastgamer 100spiceware 55darthkur 54ed1475 44Electric Adventures 37colecovision 35roadrunner 25jblenkle 25Donpedro 20s.baz 10patbb 10manoau2002 6 Congratulations to northcoastgamer for winning the round and setting a new HSC record. If anyone notices any errors let me know so I can make the proper corrections. Thanks. Edited September 19, 2014 by Manoau2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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