Status internpepper Feb 15, 2021
Out of Space Invaders, Galaxian, and Galaga, I like Galaxian the least but it's still a solid arcade shoot-em-up, mostly for the time.
Galaxian (1979)
3.21 from 155 ratings
358 members have it in their collection · 6 playing now · 37 backlogged · 23 wish listed
Galaxian is a shooter arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was released by Namco in Japan and a few months later by Midway Games in North America. The game was developed to compete with Taito Corporation's Space Invaders, released a year earlier, and featured a similar space theme. The player controls a space ship in the bottom part …
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Galaxian is a shooter arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was released by Namco in Japan and a few months later by Midway Games in North America. The game was developed to compete with Taito Corporation's Space Invaders, released a year earlier, and featured a similar space theme. The player controls a space ship in the bottom part of the screen and shoots at enemies descending from the top of the screen.
The game was received very well by the public and has continued to be a game with a competitive community to this day. It was followed by a successful sequel called Galaga in 1981 and two less known sequels called Gaplus in 1984 and Galaga '88 in 1987. Galaxian was one of the most popular games in the golden age of arcade video games.
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Details
- Developers
- Namco
- Publishers
- Midway, Namco
- Genres
- Arcade, Shooter
- Themes
- Science fiction
- Franchises
- Galaxian
- Series
- Galaxian
- Event
- Xbox E3 2004 Press Conference
Release dates
- Sep 15, 1979 (Full Release) (Japan) Arcade
- 1979 (Full Release) (North_America) Arcade
Also available on
- Galaxian2 (1981) · Handheld Electronic LCD
- Galaxian (1981) · Handheld Electronic LCD
- Galaxian (1982) · 5200
- Galaxian (1982) · A800
- Galaxian (1983) · PC88
- Galaxian (1983) · 2600
- Galaxian (1984) · MSX
- Galaxian (1984) · famicom
- Galaxian (1984) · C64
- Galaxian (1984) · DOS
- Galaxian (1984) · C64
- Galaxian (1984) · X1
- Galaxian (1984) · VC20
- Galaxian (1984) · 6001
- Galaxian (1984) · SPEC
- Galaxian (1984) · APL2
- Galaxian (1984) · SPEC
- Galaxian (1985) · FM7
- Galaxian (1996) · GB
- Galaxian (1997) · Handheld Electronic LCD
- Galaxian (2001) · Mobile
- Arcade Archives: Galaxian (2022) · NSW, PS4
- Galaxian · Mobile
Related
Bundled in
- Disk NG 2 (Apr 1990) · MSX2
- Arcade Classics (Dec 1995) · CDI
- Namco Museum Vol. 3 (Jun 1996) · PS1, PS3
- Microsoft Return of Arcade (Dec 1996) · PC
- Namco History Vol. 4 (Dec 1998) · PC
- Namco Museum 64 (Dec 1999) · N64
- Disk NG 2 (Apr 1990) · MSX2
- Arcade Classics (Dec 1995) · CDI
- Namco Museum Vol. 3 (Jun 1996) · PS1, PS3
- Microsoft Return of Arcade (Dec 1996) · PC
- Namco History Vol. 4 (Dec 1998) · PC
- Namco Museum 64 (Dec 1999) · N64
- Namco Museum (Jul 2000) · DC
- Namco Museum (Jun 2001) · GBA, WiiU
- Namco Museum (Dec 2001) · GCN, PS2, XBOX
- Namco: Featuring Pac-Man (Dec 2003) · Plug & Play
- Namco Museum Battle Collection (Feb 2005) · PSP
- Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (Aug 2005) · GCN, PC, PS2, XBOX
- Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (Aug 2005) · GBA
- Namco Museum Vol. 1 (Dec 2005) · PSP
- Namco Museum DS (Sep 2007) · DS
- Namco Museum Remix (Oct 2007) · Wii
- Arcade Gold featuring Pac-Man (Dec 2007) · Plug & Play
- Namco Museum Virtual Arcade (Nov 2008) · X360
- Retro Arcade: Pac-Man (Dec 2008) · Plug & Play
- Namco Museum Megamix (Nov 2010) · Wii
- Pac-Man's Arcade Party (Dec 2010) · ARC
- Galaga 30th Collection (Jun 2011) · iOS
- Pac-Man Connect & Play (Dec 2012) · Plug & Play
- Pac-Man's Pixel Bash (Dec 2018) · ARC
- Namco Museum Mini Player (Jul 2019) · Handheld Electronic LCD
- Stranger Things Palace Arcade (Dec 2019) · Handheld Electronic LCD
- Bandai Namco Arcade Blast! (Dec 2020) · Plug & Play
- Pac-Man 12-in-1 Legacy Series (Dec 2021) · ARC
- Pac-Man Couchcade (Mar 2022) · Plug & Play
Remakes
- SD Gundam Over Galaxian (Jun 1996) · PS1
- Galaxian Mini (Dec 2000) · Mobile
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
15
4 stars
33
3 stars
79
2 stars
23
1 star
4
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status Reset_Tears Feb 1, 2021
- Space Invaders -- rows of enemies slowly advance toward you (until they speed up); there are bunkers
- Galaxian -- enemies divebomb you after a bit; no bunkers
- Galaga -- sequel to Galaxian; there are bonus stages; your ship can be captured (and rescuing it gives you double fire-power... sweet!)
I get that Galaxian is a classic, but it's not one …
- Space Invaders -- rows of enemies slowly advance toward you (until they speed up); there are bunkers
- Galaxian -- enemies divebomb you after a bit; no bunkers
- Galaga -- sequel to Galaxian; there are bonus stages; your ship can be captured (and rescuing it gives you double fire-power... sweet!)
I get that Galaxian is a classic, but it's not one that I care for. Galaga is just better, what can I say. But that's not strange, since Galaga was a sequel that took the basic space creature shooting formula and made it a bit more polished and interesting. So it's hard to go back to Galaxian. And really, I think I like Space Invaders more than Galaxian too.
Status brian.hammerman.9 Aug 27, 2013
Atari 2600 agane nery play it but ign gave it a 7.6 so i will add it