Grevle Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 I think this game look very nice, but are lacking in the sound fx. I had this game back in the day and while the the starfield and galaxians look pretty good,the sound fx doesn't really fit the game very well, dragging down the game i think. I think the Galaxian clone "galactic chase" has better sounds. Would be nice to see a sound hack of the Galaxian game to improve sound fx as this game is often overlooked it seems.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 The flagship graphics was a "phone it in" effort - prob the same sound guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Galactic Chase every time.. Same as Space Invaders, endorsed by Taito but just a horrible game.. Space invaders and Galaxian, two games the Atari folk wanted badly and badly is what they got. You know you have screwed a license when the 3rd party clones just destroy the official versions. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Nut Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 I like the Atari version of Galaxian and I agree, better sounds would be nice. I first had it on the 5200 and played it frequently back in the day. I am not a fan of Galactic Chase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilsaluki Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 A8 Galaxian. Still one of my Go-To games to this day. I love everything about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manterola Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 For enhanced sound.... or more like a soundtrack, insert your favorite music cassette in the tape drive and press play. Then load Galaxian. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdefabri Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 I'm loathe to be too critical of any game, but man did Atari drop the ball on this. Compare this version to the Colecovision version, not even close. Forget about comparing it to the 7800 homebrew - that's amazing. This is another one that I wish would get an updated hack. I'm not sure if it's limited since it's a cart, but I know the A8 can do waaay better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifthPlayer Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 (edited) Just tried Galactic Chase again because I didn't have much experience with it. I can't say I prefer it to Atari's Galaxian. It's not as colorful, the starfield is too sparse, and the diving aliens flicker. It has better shooting/explosion sound FX but also has this REALLY annoying grinding background sound (like the engine of a truck), so I prefer Galaxian's sounds overall, lacking as they are. Both games play acceptably well. Edited September 13, 2023 by FifthPlayer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 33 minutes ago, FifthPlayer said: Just tried Galactic Chase again because I didn't have much experience with it. I can't say I prefer it to Atari's Galaxian. It's not as colorful, the starfield is too sparse, and the diving aliens flicker. It has better shooting/explosion sound FX but also has this REALLY annoying grinding background sound (like the engine of a truck), so I prefer Galaxian's sounds overall, lacking as they are. Both games play acceptably well. This encapsulates my thoughts on the two games also. IIRC, Galactic Chase starts out rather slow and boring. Although, I think you can start at a higher level to begin with to get around that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 It is remarkably colourfull though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdefabri Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 For me, there's a broader theme here - it's quite obvious that the A8 line had a lot more "in the tank". We see this in the modern homebrews (not counting VBXE, but that's another level). Perhaps Atari didn't make it so easy, but with some heavy lifting, there's some really strong capability that just wasn't shown in some of the arcade conversions. It's hard to see something like Space Harrier or Prince of Persia, and then see a 3rd party version of a game turn out better than the licensed version. I've ranted on this before, and I get the business case of why some games were never made for the A8 line, but part of me feels that if more care were taken early on, it may have yielded better results later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 Keep in mind that Atari Galaxian is on an 8KB cartridge (Galactic Chase can fit on an 8KB cart too)! [Edit] It looks like there's 500+ bytes free at the end of the Galaxian cart too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13matt Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 To be frank, Atari's galaxian is lacking a little in audio with some inappropriate sound effects, and the commanders are the wrong shape. But it's amazingly playable and I think that's what they developers often got right. I played it to death when I got it on cartridge. A different experience to the arcade granted but still a great game. For me, galactic chase was washed out visually, slow, and the sound effects were somewhat grating. But this is only my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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