Antagonist Title: The alien race is known as the Galaga (in stark contrast to its predecessor where the Galaxians are the players rather than the aliens).Collect two of them to open a rift to warp to another dimension after each Challenging Stage, where enemies are harder to fight. Another Dimension: In Galaga '88 some enemies give bombs.There was a webcomic based on it written by Ryan North, as part of ShiftyLook, but that site is now defunct.Ģ016 saw the series return to the arcades in the form of Galaga Assault, which upgrades the graphics to HD and can now be played for tickets. The series has also been given a downloadable title in the same vein as Pac-Man Championship Edition: Galaga Legions on Xbox Live Arcade in 2008, with a Deluxe version released as part of the Namco Generations line on Xbox Live Arcade and Play Station Network in 2011. The game is over when the player's last ship is destroyed or captured.

Galaga '88 even allowed the player to do the same with a third ship. If successful, the fighter joins the formation and must be freed by the player (using another ship and costing him/her a life), enabling him/her to control two ships simultaneously and doubling the players' firepower. Occasionally, a 'boss Galaga' attempts to capture the player's fighter using a tractor beam.

Enemies fly in groups into a formation near the top of the screen, then begin flying down toward the player, firing bombs at and attempting to collide with the fighter. The player controls a fighter spaceship that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield. The objective of Galaga is to score as many points as possible by destroying insect-like enemies. It was released by Namco in 1981 the US version was released the same year under license to Midway (and later ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System to Bandai (now merged with Namco to form Bandai Namco Entertainment) and the Game Boy game systems (under license to Nintendo) along with Galaxian). is a fixed shooter arcade game and the sequel to Galaxian. Galaga note pronounced ga-LAG-a, per Word of God.

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