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Galaga

Galaga (XSX) game cover art
Platform: Arcade
Tags: Shooter, Arcade
Developer: Namco
More Platforms: Atari 7800, Famicom Disk System, Game Boy Color, NES, Xbox 360

Publisher
Region
Released
NA
??/??/1981
JP
??/??/1981

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Staff Reviews

Galaga review

Reviewed January 07, 2016

Joseph Shaffer says: "Galaga, or Paying to Die in Space."
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Reader Reviews

Galaga review

Reviewed December 24, 2003

retro says: "I don't know many people my age who haven't played Galaga at one time or another. Galaga is a classic space shooter in which you control a spaceship at the bottom of the screen and attempt to exterminate all the aliens that are moving back and forth in the galaxy above you. Galaga wasn't the first game of its kind (Space Invaders and Galaxian paved the road for it to shoot down), but it was definitely the best of its kind back in the day. "
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Galaga review

Reviewed May 26, 2008

whelkman says: "Namco's Galaga (1981) is an interesting game. While it continues on the Space Invaders / Galaxian thread, it manages to be a much better game. How can that be? After all, the game play is the same. Or is it? Namco spent some serious think-time in the two years since Galaxian's release and returned with a killer game. "
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Galaga review

Reviewed August 23, 2004

yamishuryou says: "I’ve always had a love for shooters, and thus, the arcade era of video gaming is what I consider to be the best times of my life in terms of gaming. A shooter, no matter how shallow it may be in depth, sometimes have the effect of that long-term addiction that refuses to let you put down your controller or stop putting in quarters. Unfortunately, I was one of those affected by that lust, so you can take a guess at where a good amount of my allowance went. "
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