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post #1 of 49
6/4/06 at 4:28pm
Thread Starter 
To me, it's always going to be about GALAGA.

I don't really care who wins the X-BOX 360/Playstation 3 war.

We will always have GALAGA.

I don't care about HD video games.

You can play GALAGA on a crappy 13 inch black and white TV. It will still be glorious.

When I was a kid, there were never enough quarters to satisfy my GALAGA hunger.

If I missed even ONE ship during the "Challenging Stage" I felt deep hurt, and remorse.

Why God, why couldn't I have THREE ships hooked together. I'd finally show those alien bastards whose boss.

I now have Namco Museum for my X-BOX.

Galaga
Dig Dug
Pole Position
Pac-Man

I was talking to my 7-year-old daughter about Pac-Man the other day.
She did not know who Pac-Man was.
She will learn, oh yes, she will learn.

Doom 3?
Half Life 2?
Call of Duty?

Nah man.
Galaga.
Galaga.
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post #2 of 49
6/4/06 at 4:35pm
I'm curious as to how Galaga would play on the Wii. Seems like fun.
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post #3 of 49
6/4/06 at 4:38pm
Thread Starter 
Oh, you could play GALAGA with chalk on the sidewalk and it would still be fun.
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post #4 of 49
6/4/06 at 5:05pm
To me, part of the appeal of these games were the sound effects. Probably because they couldn't have sound tracks or realistic sounds (not even voices in the beginning), I felt that the sounds and simple melodies of these games were more memorable than anything today.

Have you played any of the "updated" versions of Galaga?
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post #5 of 49
6/4/06 at 6:15pm
Galaga 88 is pretty awesome. You can even atart with a double ship, if you want. The upgrade gives you 3 lasers!

Words cannot describe the joy I feel when I come upon a sit-down Galaga machine in a bar. The quarters levitate from my pocket on their own.
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post #6 of 49
6/5/06 at 12:03am
This is the game that got me into gaming in general. Ive been playing it for 20 years now.
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post #7 of 49
6/5/06 at 1:02am
Yeah but, isn't it just a Space Invaders knock-off?
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post #8 of 49
6/5/06 at 1:03am
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Originally Posted by Desslar
Yeah but, isn't it just a Space Invaders knock-off?
DIE, HERETIC!!!
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post #9 of 49
6/5/06 at 1:05am
Yes, Desslar should die.

Wait, what's this thread about? Oh, right, Galaga.

Many a quarter and idle hour was burned away in movie theaters and arcades across the Eastern seaboard in my youth with this one. One of my all time favorites.
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post #10 of 49
6/5/06 at 1:32am
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer
DIE, HERETIC!!!
Easy now. Good thing I didn't say anything about Gorf.
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post #11 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:02pm
The other game of legend for me was the Vector Graphics STAR WARS. I used to play that one on the ferry from New London, CT to Southold, NY. Outstanding memory.
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post #12 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:04pm
I don't think any reasonable gamer could dislike GALAGA. One of the greatest arcade games ever...at least in my personal experience, that is.
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post #13 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:09pm
Galaga was and is still king.
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post #14 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:12pm
Gyruss was quite the bomb as well...
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post #15 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:17pm
I love Galaga, and still play it on a regular basis, along with Robotron, Joust, Asteroids, Marble Madness and Tempest. But my favorite old-school quarter muncher is without a doubt, Defender.
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post #16 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:18pm
I like Galaga, but it ain't got nothing on BEZERK.

You run through a maze. You touch the walls, you die. Robot shoots you, you die. Big smiley face touch you, you die. And when you die, the last thing you hear as you pass on are robotic voices, mocking you.

Whenever I see some emo nihilist MySpace page, I think, "They got nothing on BEZERK." The robots WILL kill us. Believe it.
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post #17 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:18pm
And thanks to ye old MAME system, I can play the original Galaga, quarter free, from the comfort of my office.

Thank you pirate ROM distributers everywhere.
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post #18 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:20pm
You're supposed to say you "own" the original ROMS.
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post #19 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:23pm
Let's not bring all that "intellectual property" and "copyright law" nonsense into a thread about Galaga.
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post #20 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:32pm
Time to confess, I have MAME setup in a portable HD with ALL the games available for the version I have. Yeah, I ... huh ... own all those ROMs too.

Let's not forget Galaxian, wasn't a bad game, but after Galaga came out the game just seemed redundant (plus galaga had better graphics).

There's another similar shoot 'em up whose name eludes me, it was a ship that you could "upgrade" by docking into different parts after passing some number of stages. I think the ship was made up of 3 parts, and of course, your shooting power was at it's best when all of them were assembled. Sound familiar to anbody?
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post #21 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:37pm
Galaga is a form of perfection.
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post #22 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:38pm
CapitanAmerica, that game is Moon Cresta - a 1980 Nichibutsa game...
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post #23 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:45pm
That's the one, thanks! Now I can go and play it :-)

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post #24 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:53pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by UberNeuman
Gyruss was quite the bomb as well...
I own a Gyruss machine, actually. Full-size, working machine. Bought it at an auction for $150. The Galaga machines are ridiculously high, bid-wise. That, and Donkey Kong. Unfortunately, they quit having the auctions here in Atlanta.
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post #25 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:56pm
I used to have a "Crazy Kong" machine, too bad it's in another country. I've always wanted to build my own arcade machine from an old cabinet.

How did you find that auction?
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post #26 of 49
6/5/06 at 4:56pm
Galaga.
So cool Hollywood used it's sound effects in the sci-fi masterpiece War Games.
Galaga.
Nothing matches the zen like calm during the three seconds you hover in space awaiting the first fleet of invading enemy ships.
Galaga.
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post #27 of 49
6/5/06 at 5:27pm
I have the Namco Museum GBA cart and, for some reason I doubt anyone can explain, they have Galaga AND Galaxian on there. Galaxian is such a giant pile of crap compared to the greatness of Galaga.
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post #28 of 49
6/5/06 at 5:56pm
Xbox 360 wins cause it's coming to the arcade.
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post #29 of 49
6/5/06 at 6:15pm
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Originally Posted by CapitanAmerica
I used to have a "Crazy Kong" machine, too bad it's in another country. I've always wanted to build my own arcade machine from an old cabinet.

How did you find that auction?
Do a Google search on "Video Game Auction" and you'll find some links for different places. The "Auction Game Sales" link is where I used to go, but they stopped doing them in Atlanta. If you go to one, you'll need your own extension cord to plug in the game and make sure it works. The best part is showing up about an hour or two before the auction starts so you can play the games for free. You can also tell what works and doesn't work correctly. There was a stuck fire button on the Gyruss machine, but the seller told me he'd just switch the spring with the one under the 2 Player button, and it works fine. I found an old user's guide online and downloaded it, cleaned it up (and pulled about $23 in quarters out of it), and set the jumpers on it to player for free all the time. Newer machines can be set up using the controllers, etc.
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post #30 of 49
6/5/06 at 6:17pm
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Originally Posted by Martianman
(and pulled about $23 in quarters out of it
Wow. I wonder if that's a regular occurrence to buy an arcade game with money still in it.
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post #31 of 49
6/5/06 at 6:35pm
As a youngun I always thought Galaga looked a little intimidating in the arcade. My favorite vertical shooter is still Sky Shark -

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post #32 of 49
6/5/06 at 10:31pm
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Originally Posted by JGButler
Wow. I wonder if that's a regular occurrence to buy an arcade game with money still in it.
They were spread out all over the actual case. The change box didn't always catch the quarters when you put them in (a fact that I discovered whilst screwing around with the machine), and once I started vacuuming out the inside of all the dust, I started finding quarters all buried in dust in the bottom. And the screen was covered in like a 1/4 inch thick film of black cigarette residue. "Kids, this is what your lungs look like after smoking for 10 years."
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post #33 of 49
6/5/06 at 10:35pm
Space Invaders rules all.
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post #34 of 49
6/6/06 at 2:05am
You crazy kids and your "Galaga". Pfft.
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/affiliate_games5.shtml#
*edit- Eh, fuck it. I was trying to get PONG directly on here. Didn't work, but it's on that site.
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post #35 of 49
6/6/06 at 10:47am
Does Ikari Warriors count as a shooter? I mean, it functioned sort of on the same premise as these top-scrolling shooters did.
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post #36 of 49
6/6/06 at 8:52pm
I love it that the bugs will progressively get harder and harder to fight, except when that one time they fall asleep at the gunner and forget to fire their shots at you.

Oh, sweet joys of old school gaming: the one stage late in the game where the difficulty ramps down for you to catch a breather...
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post #37 of 49
6/7/06 at 4:45pm
Bah, Galaga is for n00bs.

Defender ownz j00!!!

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post #38 of 49
6/14/06 at 12:29pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Necessiter
Bah, Galaga is for n00bs.

Defender ownz j00!!!
Do you even know what game that is?
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post #39 of 49
6/14/06 at 3:43pm
You got served!
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post #40 of 49
6/14/06 at 5:02pm
Am I missing something? That is Defender, isn't it?

Malliabu, your user title made me laugh. (Still not tired of the Yakov Smirnoff Joke Format.)
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post #41 of 49
6/14/06 at 5:08pm
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Originally Posted by CapitanAmerica
Let's not forget Galaxian, wasn't a bad game, but after Galaga came out the game just seemed redundant (plus galaga had better graphics).
Galaxian, to me, had better sound effects. But Galaga's controls and enemies beat Galaxian hands down.
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post #42 of 49
6/14/06 at 5:14pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris Allen
Do you even know what game that is?
Stargate-Defender II
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post #43 of 49
6/15/06 at 8:03am
I couldn't master Defender. There were too many buttons to press. I used to get the smart bomb and shield buttons mixed up with disastrous effects.

Of the early coin-ops I liked GORF the best.

Five games - Astro Battles (Space Invaders by another name), Laser Attack, Galaxians, Space Warp and Flag Ship - for the price of one. Never made it past the level Space Warrior, tho.
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post #44 of 49
6/15/06 at 3:48pm
I was always preferred Asteroids to the Space Invaders type games, partly because you could move around the screen.

Defender was too tough for me.
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post #45 of 49
6/16/06 at 3:01pm
http://www.smiliegames.com/galaga/
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post #46 of 49
6/16/06 at 3:10pm
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Originally Posted by theslik1
Not Galaga.
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post #47 of 49
6/16/06 at 3:28pm
Xevious, Xevious, Xevious.

No knock on Galaga, but if those two cabinets and a change machine were next to each other right now in my office, Xevious would be the machine getting every single quarter I could produce before losing my job.
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post #48 of 49
6/17/06 at 12:26am
No love for Zaxxon?
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post #49 of 49
7/11/06 at 7:57am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Desslar
I was always preferred Asteroids to the Space Invaders type games, partly because you could move around the screen.
I'm too hamfisted to play Asteroids. I end up smeared across the face of a rock in less than five minutes.

But if we're talking about wire-effects - Battlezone is the mutt's nuts.
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