Summary: Move your starship left and right, avoiding enemies and their projectiles as you shoot them down to get points and advance to the next stage (clearing all enemies on the screen).
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This seems like a simple arcade shooter that would take a combination of skill and patience to master. Enemies appear to spawn in the same pattern everytime, so with practice one can position oneself and time one's shot to repeat a run consistently. However, an even more skilled player may wait for moments to kill moving enemies for more points.*
For example, during the challenge stage, under the C, to the left, under the S, to the right, under the C, and the under the G, where the letters are the letters of "HIGH SCORE" at the top of the screen.
Setup: Keyboard.
Steam Game Time: 14 minutes
*Watching a speedrun to a million points, the top runner did not appear to ever wait for enemies to start moving. With that being said, the runner did usually hit multiple enemies as they fly in. Cleverly, the runner intentionally gets a ship captured at the end of Stage 1, so that he/she can release it in Stage 2 and create the twin ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaga
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| A group of three Galaga ships fly down toward the player ship at the bottom of the screen. |
20211009:
This seems like a simple arcade shooter that would take a combination of skill and patience to master. Enemies appear to spawn in the same pattern everytime, so with practice one can position oneself and time one's shot to repeat a run consistently. However, an even more skilled player may wait for moments to kill moving enemies for more points.*
For example, during the challenge stage, under the C, to the left, under the S, to the right, under the C, and the under the G, where the letters are the letters of "HIGH SCORE" at the top of the screen.
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| Gameplay statistics after a Game Over. |
Setup: Keyboard.
Steam Game Time: 14 minutes
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| I saw a Boss Galaga using a tractor eam and lost my last life while taking a screenshot. |
*Watching a speedrun to a million points, the top runner did not appear to ever wait for enemies to start moving. With that being said, the runner did usually hit multiple enemies as they fly in. Cleverly, the runner intentionally gets a ship captured at the end of Stage 1, so that he/she can release it in Stage 2 and create the twin ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaga
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