Galaxian

Release date : Sep 07, 1984 ( 40 years ago )

Galaxian is a shooter arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was released by Namco in Japan and a few months later by Midway Games in North America. The game was developed to compete with Taito Corporation's Space Invaders, released a year earlier, and featured a similar space theme. The player controls a space ship in the bottom part of the screen and shoots at enemies descending from the top of the screen. The game was received very well by the public and has continued to be a game with a competitive community to this day. It was followed by a successful sequel called Galaga in 1981 and two less known sequels called Gaplus in 1984 and Galaga '88 in 1987. Galaxian was one of the most popular games in the golden age of arcade video games.

Platforms :

DOS Commodore C64/128 Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) ZX Spectrum MSX Arcade Atari 2600 Atari 8-bit Atari 5200 ColecoVision Commodore VIC-20 Apple II Sharp X1 PC-8801 FM-7 NEC PC-6000 Series

Theme :

Science fiction

Genre :

Shooter Arcade

Keyword :

aliens gravity shoot 'em up spaceship sci-fi artificial intelligence missile high score star 8-bit

Alternative name :

ギャラクシアン (Japanese title - original) Gyarakushian (Japanese title - romanization)