Overview

Galaga is a sequel to Galaxian with similar gameplay as well. The player controls a spaceship which can only move to left or right and shoots at swarms of incoming insect-like aliens that fly in formation above him. The aliens occasionally swoop down to bomb him a kamikaze used to do. The enemies in the top row are sometimes accompanied by one or two escorts in their dives. Enemies that survive a dive will rejoin the formation from the top. To move on to the next level, you have to destroy all enemies. The game is over when the player's last ship is destroyed or captured by the enemies.

Features

Two player shots can appear on the screen simultaneously.

At the beginning of each level, enemies fly into the formation in groups, which the player can shoot on their way in. In later stages, extra enemies in each group break off and dive at the player.

Boss Galagas require two hits to be destroyed, they occasionally stop in mid-dive and attempt to capture the player's ship with a tractor beam.

Galaga introduces a bonus stage, referred to as the Challenging Stage, in which a set of 40 enemies (including 4 Boss Galagas) fly in predetermined patterns. The player's goal is to destroy all 40 enemies before they exit the play field.

By Stage 4 and subsequents, a single non-boss enemy splits into three special enemies, two of which exit the play field if not destroyed first. Destroying all three of the split enemies gives extra bonus points.

The game keeps track of all of the player's shots and displays the player's "hit-miss ratio" at the end of the game.

In two-player mode, an experienced player can play his entire game before the second player gets his first trial.

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