40 Years Ago: Galaxian (1979) [No commentary, 1080p, 60FPS]
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'40 Years Ago' is a series of videos of games that were released 40 years ago.
In November 1979, Namco released Galaxian, an iteration of the ideas in Space Invaders, which was released the previous year. It's probably my favourite game of '79, a game that stills feel exciting to play 40 years later.
Galaxian has special significance for me. Before I got my first computer, the amazing Amiga 2000, I was playing around with various computers borrowed from friends. The Acorn Electron was an 8-bit computer from 1983, a budget model of the BBC Micro, and a contemporary of the famous Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
The BBC Micro was famous for 'Elite' (the predecessor of 'Frontier' and 'Elite: Dangerous'), 'Exile', an interesting open-world space exploration game with a detailed physics model, and 'The Sentinel', a strange first-person puzzle game with polygonal graphics.
However, I had only two cassette tapes with games, one was 'Planetoid', an excellent but unlicensed port of 'Defender', and the other was 'Arcadians', an equally great unlicensed port of 'Galaxian'. Both ports were released in 1984.
So, my days would be spent loading up one of these games from tape, a process which took around 5 minutes - felt like an eternity - and then playing using the built-in keyboard.
Nowadays, I play the original Galaxian on MAME, and I'm better at the game than I ever was back then.
40 Years Ago - 1979: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEXiKm54CARTxHNImGCe54-53pumdCWDH
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