That's incredible gameplay. I can't even come close. But are there different types of galaga machines? Yours seems to shoot bullets faster than mine (the individual shots travel up the screen faster). Am I just seeing things or is this right?
@tyebillion Yeah, the sound hardware is pretty similar between Galaga, Pac-Man and a bunch of other Namco games that ran on related boards. A lot of the effects seem to be closely related - sometimes just different speeds or pitches.
The Namco and the Williams sound F/X are the iconic arcade sounds to me.
You get lucky a lot. When I get to the stages after the 5th challenging stage, if I were to go in the corner as often as you, I'd get smoked! I don't know how you get away with it so many times. Still, you've gotten further than I have so you must be doing something right.
@EVREEDE There's probably some luck in there, but it's also knowing when it's safe to head to the corner. The CPU can only have so many missiles on the screen at one time and they target your current location so you may notice I hesitate on my way to the side of the screen trying to lead the missiles out a bit from the corner and don't go that last little bit to the edge until the last of a wave of missiles is dropped. Stop shooting stuff in flight too once you've decided to go to the corner.
this is the real names of every enemy in galaga. Add "oid" to the end of the enemys description. (like the enemies that abduct are abductroids, the scorpion enemies are scorpionoids, and so on.)
damn man, your pretty good, i would waste countless quarters at the arcade playing this game. Later they released the Namco museum volume 1 for the PS1, one of the games it had was galaga. I remember getting to stage 21. I've tried over and over the years to make it past 21, but i keep screwing up
@patman0322 Well, no, I didn't...until just now! My apologies, my man! I didn't mean to sleep on your MAAAD skills! Your shooting is pinpoint accurate, and your bomb-dodging skills are, indeed, artful! I'd gotten perfects on the CSes in an arcade back in the late 80s (on the 2nd run through), but, I ADMIT, I had to trick them into NOT shooting to achieve it; my high score w/trick is 1.5M. But if YOU tricked them, no doubt you'd pass Stage 255! Again, sorry I ever doubted you!
Dude this is my favorite game! this and galaxian. i found out that galaga is the sequel to galaxian like 3 days ago. at first i always thought it was a copy cat of galaga :/
Here's one way to improve your game. At 1:00 when the bees come down don't move to the edge like that, move to the center. If you're on the edge then there's no way out if a bee comes down to you or shoots a rogue missile.
BTW, I can consistently make it through all 256 stages without dying.
@AriochStarr A lot of Namco's games of Pacman generation sound similar - the boards were all closely related and the sound hardware was practically identical. A lot of effects are the same across games, just sped up or slowed down some, pitch changed, or tweaked in some other small way.
Same goes for other manufacturers; Williams games all have very similar sound effects - Joust, Defender, Stargate, Robotron, etc., all share some characteristic effects and they all sound very similar to Williams pinball machines of the era. The Williams games are probably my favorite sounds effects
@djdiamond755 I think this was on an Athalon 3000+ but I don't remember what the video card at the time was but it doesn't really matter - you really don't need much PC at all to run early 8 bit games in MAME, even multiprocessor machines like Galaga.
Yeah, I just got lucky there. I missed an easy shot and then went the wrong way when the last three bosses attacked and ran to the corner to soon - if that boss had waited just a split second later to drop his last missile, it would've got me.
The enemy missiles can actually overlap a pixel or so on the edge with out killing you and if you time it just perfectly, a missile can go right between your 2 ships without harming you.
haha, yeah, this is a terrible game for 2 players if either player is any good - you can play a complete game before the other person ever gets a turn.
When I played this in the arcades and someone wanted to play 2 players with me, it might be a 20 or 25 minute wait before they got their turn. I always told people to just go a head and play a game and I'd wait till they got done but if they insisted, they'd be in for a long wait when it was my turn :D
How long have you played Galaga? I was really so amazed...BTW my best score is around 1.45M but haven't played for long time and current average is about 400-500K...
I've been playing since I was a kid and Galaga was new. I didn't get to play as much the last 10 years or so since the arcades started drying up and machines started disappearing from restaurants and bars. Now I've got my own machine but I still don't get to play as much as I'd like :p but I have been making improvement lately.
I pushed my high score up to 2.7M the other night. If you're capable of 1.45M then you can go higher too, it's basically just focus and execution.
i just recently broke the record at my school (we have a list of all arcade high scores) on galaga (663,782)but i dont even compare to this, man! holy crap! what system were you using? we only get extra lives @ 30000 and 80000.
This was played in MAME - I usually play on an arcade machine but it's much simpler to record while playing on the computer.
600K+ is an excellent score for only 5 lives! You should be able to hit at least 1.5~2M on a machine set to the normal 20K/70K/70K extra lives setting right now.
Keep practicing! If you can get to almost 700K on 5 lives than you can get to a million too.
Does anyone know y his ship fires really fast?
MrMagicalManiacMan 1 day ago
That's incredible gameplay. I can't even come close. But are there different types of galaga machines? Yours seems to shoot bullets faster than mine (the individual shots travel up the screen faster). Am I just seeing things or is this right?
Apotheosis1321 5 months ago
The sound effects have similarities to Pac Man.
tyebillion 5 months ago
@tyebillion Yeah, the sound hardware is pretty similar between Galaga, Pac-Man and a bunch of other Namco games that ran on related boards. A lot of the effects seem to be closely related - sometimes just different speeds or pitches.
The Namco and the Williams sound F/X are the iconic arcade sounds to me.
patman0322 5 months ago
@patman0322 Interesting. Funny I was listening to Aphex Twin today in my car and I heard samples from Defender.
tyebillion 5 months ago
I love how these games were so simple yet so hard.
x6GreenDayLover6x 8 months ago
I played this game to death when i was a kid, and i never found out about the double ship. :D
Cihl280777 10 months ago
nice going this isnt the original version though is it?
ImHomeAtLast 1 year ago
@ImHomeAtLast It's the original. You've probably played something that's not the original but thought it was, like the NES version.
CamBud08 11 months ago
@CamBud08 this seems faster then the original thats all. hmmm
ImHomeAtLast 11 months ago
You get lucky a lot. When I get to the stages after the 5th challenging stage, if I were to go in the corner as often as you, I'd get smoked! I don't know how you get away with it so many times. Still, you've gotten further than I have so you must be doing something right.
EVREEDE 1 year ago
@EVREEDE There's probably some luck in there, but it's also knowing when it's safe to head to the corner. The CPU can only have so many missiles on the screen at one time and they target your current location so you may notice I hesitate on my way to the side of the screen trying to lead the missiles out a bit from the corner and don't go that last little bit to the edge until the last of a wave of missiles is dropped. Stop shooting stuff in flight too once you've decided to go to the corner.
patman0322 1 year ago
this is the real names of every enemy in galaga. Add "oid" to the end of the enemys description. (like the enemies that abduct are abductroids, the scorpion enemies are scorpionoids, and so on.)
ransman413 1 year ago
GALAGA FEVER! which is harder galaga or galaga 88
ransman413 1 year ago
damn man, your pretty good, i would waste countless quarters at the arcade playing this game. Later they released the Namco museum volume 1 for the PS1, one of the games it had was galaga. I remember getting to stage 21. I've tried over and over the years to make it past 21, but i keep screwing up
spartan132 1 year ago
DAMN THAT IS SO F****ING HARD
MegaCheif1 1 year ago
Dude the F**kin Blue alienz annoy the hell out of me they fly at u during the initial falldown nice score though my HS is like 1.1 mil
LetChickenzLive 1 year ago
@patman0322 Well, no, I didn't...until just now! My apologies, my man! I didn't mean to sleep on your MAAAD skills! Your shooting is pinpoint accurate, and your bomb-dodging skills are, indeed, artful! I'd gotten perfects on the CSes in an arcade back in the late 80s (on the 2nd run through), but, I ADMIT, I had to trick them into NOT shooting to achieve it; my high score w/trick is 1.5M. But if YOU tricked them, no doubt you'd pass Stage 255! Again, sorry I ever doubted you!
dukenthaylor 1 year ago
Dude this is my favorite game! this and galaxian. i found out that galaga is the sequel to galaxian like 3 days ago. at first i always thought it was a copy cat of galaga :/
MrEtzio 1 year ago
Here's one way to improve your game. At 1:00 when the bees come down don't move to the edge like that, move to the center. If you're on the edge then there's no way out if a bee comes down to you or shoots a rogue missile.
BTW, I can consistently make it through all 256 stages without dying.
AidenIsLove 1 year ago
nice shootin tex
beergut66 1 year ago
that really is amazing galaga gameplay. i couldn't do any better myself. i can make it to at least 19 but that's it.
OddThaBest 1 year ago
Sounds like Pacman xD
AriochStarr 1 year ago
@AriochStarr A lot of Namco's games of Pacman generation sound similar - the boards were all closely related and the sound hardware was practically identical. A lot of effects are the same across games, just sped up or slowed down some, pitch changed, or tweaked in some other small way.
patman0322 1 year ago
Same goes for other manufacturers; Williams games all have very similar sound effects - Joust, Defender, Stargate, Robotron, etc., all share some characteristic effects and they all sound very similar to Williams pinball machines of the era. The Williams games are probably my favorite sounds effects
patman0322 1 year ago
PERFECT !
Tenmashu 1 year ago
what are your pc specs?
djdiamond755 1 year ago
@djdiamond755 I think this was on an Athalon 3000+ but I don't remember what the video card at the time was but it doesn't really matter - you really don't need much PC at all to run early 8 bit games in MAME, even multiprocessor machines like Galaga.
patman0322 1 year ago
INSANE!!!
THESOULbornold 1 year ago
How do you do this,or is this a question I have to ask God when I go to Heaven.From Bob.
ChristianBobMiller 2 years ago
@ChristianBobMiller You just need a lot of quarters and some free time.
patman0322 1 year ago
What system? Why didn't you loose a ship at 5'05"?? Lucky :)
daafies2 2 years ago
This was performed on a PC with MAME.
Yeah, I just got lucky there. I missed an easy shot and then went the wrong way when the last three bosses attacked and ran to the corner to soon - if that boss had waited just a split second later to drop his last missile, it would've got me.
The enemy missiles can actually overlap a pixel or so on the edge with out killing you and if you time it just perfectly, a missile can go right between your 2 ships without harming you.
patman0322 2 years ago
Lol Player 1 has 520... I bet they are like, "Die already!! Let mee playyy!! lol
SmokieRSWC 2 years ago 2
haha, yeah, this is a terrible game for 2 players if either player is any good - you can play a complete game before the other person ever gets a turn.
When I played this in the arcades and someone wanted to play 2 players with me, it might be a 20 or 25 minute wait before they got their turn. I always told people to just go a head and play a game and I'd wait till they got done but if they insisted, they'd be in for a long wait when it was my turn :D
patman0322 2 years ago
wow the farthest ive reached is stage 29
ducard93 2 years ago
Hang in there, if you can get to Stage 29 then you're not too far off from getting much further in the game.
patman0322 2 years ago
You are incredible at this game! And I thought "I" was good... You could totally annhialate the score at the arcade near where I live
GoldenScarrab 2 years ago
Those sound effects remind me of Yoshi in Yoshi Safari.
OgnarPliskin 2 years ago
holy cow! i can only get to like 200k.
beckbldr 3 years ago
How long have you played Galaga? I was really so amazed...BTW my best score is around 1.45M but haven't played for long time and current average is about 400-500K...
hhsschoi 3 years ago 2
Great score!
I've been playing since I was a kid and Galaga was new. I didn't get to play as much the last 10 years or so since the arcades started drying up and machines started disappearing from restaurants and bars. Now I've got my own machine but I still don't get to play as much as I'd like :p but I have been making improvement lately.
I pushed my high score up to 2.7M the other night. If you're capable of 1.45M then you can go higher too, it's basically just focus and execution.
patman0322 3 years ago
You rock! post more!!
i love this videos they're really cool.. i suck at that game T_T so hard T_T
n00b415 3 years ago 2
Hey, thanks - glad you liked it.
Keep playing, you'll get there. There's a few tips in the comments part 2 of this video that might help.
patman0322 3 years ago
you beat my high score in the first 3 minutes of the video
Gancosfatman 3 years ago 2
I hope that didn't discourage you. Keep practicing...
patman0322 3 years ago
I like when they turn into the original galaxian ships
Gancosfatman 3 years ago
i just recently broke the record at my school (we have a list of all arcade high scores) on galaga (663,782)but i dont even compare to this, man! holy crap! what system were you using? we only get extra lives @ 30000 and 80000.
xplosive118 3 years ago
This was played in MAME - I usually play on an arcade machine but it's much simpler to record while playing on the computer.
600K+ is an excellent score for only 5 lives! You should be able to hit at least 1.5~2M on a machine set to the normal 20K/70K/70K extra lives setting right now.
Keep practicing! If you can get to almost 700K on 5 lives than you can get to a million too.
patman0322 3 years ago
This run may look good but what you don't see is all the ships I wasted carelessly afterward once my concentration had been broken :p
That's usually what happens to me - I get one good run per game surrounded by a bunch of crappy play.
patman0322 3 years ago
sweet. so i downloaded the torrent, but it wont transfer to my mame32 file. any suggestions?
xplosive118 3 years ago