Galaga - Perfect Challenge Stages

[Hefman1999]

Awesome !! Great video. Galaga rules.

[NebulaOcton]

I looks like you are using a "turbo" button, but that could jsut be great game play. Nice Video

[srarcade]

Ha! "Back in my day..." I remember being forced to get perfects on all challenge stages in a row WITHOUT the help of a second ship and WITHOUT fast shoot just to unlock Devil Kazuya in Tekken on PS1 during the load game of galaga. You bet I still have that memory card.

[58master6]

wow nice :D

[llproductions2006]

I got to the seventh and eighth challenging stages today for the first time; I really wish I'd seen this first, lol. I think I got about 20 hits on the seventh, and this was after having gotten a Perfect on the first five.

[GoGoGadgetBeer]

Heh heh, done this MANY times without continues. Of course, it helps when you have the Galaga upright parked in your casa!

[patman0322]

@GoGoGadgetBeer Yeah. I learned at the arcades and 7-11's as a kid - you just needed a bike, a lot of free time and a bunch of quarters. It's nice having a machine now since it's getting hard to find them out in the wild anymore.

[burgerroder]

@patman0322 Good job. I also learned this game at a 7-11, and the Arcade. You learned this game back in the day. 1 play for a quarter. You did great in showing how to perfectly do the challenge stages.

[BrofessionaI]

Flagged as Child Abuse.

[patman0322]

@BrofessionaI Huh?

[Raksoxl]

Hahaha first try i got It

[lndac02]

Patman I was so addicted to this game game back in the mid 1980s I bought the tabletop version of the game to play at home. this was before decent games consoles. I spent hours on it as a young man and used to be able to do what you did here. I still have the machine packed away. wasted hours but lots of fun. no regrets. hard to believe this game is now nearly 30 years old, it used to be the height of games technology. still gives a shiver of pleasure to hear the challenge screen music.

[MegaCheif1]

damn dragon flies

[dukenthaylor]

C'mon Patman! ADMIT IT! To get that far on the CHALLENGE stages, you got them to STOP SHOOTING at you on the REGULAR stages, didn't you?

[patman0322]

@dukenthaylor You didn't watch my other Galaga videos, did you?

[glennzone12]

lol, i can only get close to perfection if i play the "fast shoot hack" version on M.A.M.E.

[jbchar666]

haha omg..

[BenDaijo]

i flipped the machine over back in the day, there's a trick with the bees

[Tmack22222]

@BenDaijo yea i know those certain 2 u wait 4 4 like 15 minutes yea

[ChristianBobMiller]

How much points did you have once you were finished? From Bob.

[patman0322]

On these challenge stage videos I wasn't really concerned with scores but my highest score so far is 2.7 million - that's on a slow-fire machine, 3 ships, extra ships at 20K/70K/70K and default difficulty.

[ChristianBobMiller]

I like yours with single ship.I watch it every time I get on the computer!From Bob.

[bumfilmpoo]

when i was a kid i sure i seen three ships firing, that wold mean one would have to capture two ships, can you confirm or deny this, and could it be done messing round with dip switches?? awesome vids by tha way.. my highest screen 47 or 48.. using the fast shoot hack on mame.. :)

[patman0322]

Thanks! Hmmm, no triple ships on a regular Galaga machine or the usual bootlegs. Doesn't mean there wasn't a hack out there somewhere.

You could get 3 ships on Galaga '88 - if you had double ships they could be captured and then when you got them back the three would merge into one giant ship - maybe that's what you saw.

Or, maybe it was Gaplus(Galaga 3) - you could capture enemy ships and you could have as many as 6 or 8 captured ships I think.

I'm betting Galaga '88 is what you saw though.

[bumfilmpoo]

yeh nah wasnt galaga 88 thats a certain.. this was bout 1985 in tha local chip shop.. so yeah i dunno.. i read somewhere, that it could be possible playing round with the dip switches.. or the likes. 100% seen it though.. :)

[patman0322]

Must have been a hacked ROM then - there's no dip switch for triple ships on a normal Galaga machine or bootleg clone.

[themirrorsofmymind]

Amazing! This is probably the ONLY way I would ever see these rounds, since I usually get zapped somewhere around 13 or 14. Stunning work!

[83226505]

Oh man, you have no idea how much I enjoyed watching you nail those landers. I have never got that far before. Great stuff indeed!

[patman0322]

How far can you get? Watch some of my other Galaga videos and maybe you'll pick up something that helps.

[BaseballAlpha28]

Yeah I mean, if you record a computer (or TV) screen sometimes you see lines go across the screen, ebcause it actually does do that it just does it in a way the naked eye (looking at it normal)can't see.

[BaseballAlpha28]

At 2:35 it looks like it glitches.

[patman0322]

Yeah, the emulator runs perfectly but my DVR glitches like that every so often when I record the computer output to it. I never see anything like that when I'm just recording TV with it though.

[PacGuy765]

3:00-3:30 yay, flag ships from Galaxian!

[Kevansevans]

pretty cool... eh... I wish I could get that far

[daernac123]

wow man! i can't ever get passed like stage 10 or so on "mame"! it's killing me! but i do get perfect scores on the challenges. :(!

[appy2131]

i have this game on my phone and its fun but the arcade version is way better

[patman0322]

Yeah, the game doesn't translate well to small devices. It's not too bad on my wife's DS though.

Pac-Man, however, is awesome on my RAZR.

[DBlanksPussy]

You are a Pro at this. I always try to beat Galaga, but I always die at the 22nd or 23rd stage. I need more practice.

[patman0322]

Keep practicing! If you're getting up to 22~23 then you're getting close to being able to go a lot further. The game doesn't really get much more difficult after that - you just have to get better at not dying.

[jwizze]

plz reply, how many levels are there because i just got to level 30! so ya how many levels?

[patman0322]

There are 255 playable levels and then there's Stage 0 that may or may not be playable depending on the difficulty settings. If Stage 0 is playable then the game wraps around to Stage 1 and you do it all over again. If Stage 0 is unplayable then you have to reset the game.

There are 8 different Challenge Stages that repeat in order throughout the game and there are about 20 or so different levels of regular attack stages but after a certain point, it just repeats the same 3 over and over.

[reaperflynn3]

I have a galaga arcade in my apartment that i bought (brand new) so i get my practice in. its pretty much a matter of memorizing what the enemy will act like on each stage (youve got it down better than i)

[patman0322]

Yep, memorization and good timing. I've got an original machine too out in the garage but it's too hot to go out there and play it again until winter now :D

[cheezerocks]

i practice on my wii's virtual console,but i can never master the machines joystick,maybe i need more time,

(and quarters...)

[patman0322]

Yeah, keep practicing.

I find playing on a real machine much easier than on any console or the PC but maybe that's because that's what I'm used too. It's easier to shoot quickly with a real arcade button than on any controller or keyboard and I find the joystick way more responsive than a D-pad or thumbstick.

[Gancosfatman]

i just broke the highscore at the bowling ally I got 376,060 with one dollar. Im not the best but this game kicks ASSS

[patman0322]

Congratulations - keep it up!

Check out some of my other Galaga vids - there's some tips in the comments of one of them that might help you get even higher.

[seiya48]

mo u cheater use one airplane

[patman0322]

OK, no problem. I added a link at the end of the description.

[papaskulll]

for challenge 3? u pushin a or b?

[patman0322]

I'm not sure what you mean? Are you referring to the rapid fire button feature on the XBox Live version? If so, then no I wasn't using that or any other rapid fire or turbo features - it's just fast and well timed shooting.

This recording was made in MAME on a PC and I was using a USB converted NES Advantage joystick. The game's built in rapid fire was disabled in the DIP switch settings and the turbo feature on the joysitck was left out when I converted it to USB.

[papaskulll]

are yoou pushing a or b?

[TubeGuest5178]

wow!!!

[reddude01234]

you are a freakin' master at this.