Galaxian - Namco 1979 Arcade - Attract, Gameplay & Playthrough [4K60]

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Published on August 21, 2018 10:53:41 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRk_ulZ8MMY

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Galaxian (1979)

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Let's Play

Duration: 10:25

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Full longplay / playthrough / walkthrough of one of Namco's earliest game Galaxian the classic 1970s space shooter. OK, so you can't actually finish Galaxian, the game is just endless wave after wave and to date it doesn't appear if there's a known kill screen or the score reset, should you reach the max possible score.

While Galaxian hasn't aged quite as well as its sequels Galaga and Galpus, it remains the first in what would be a successfully series for Namco. One of the earliest known arcade games to feature parallax scrolling, officially Namco credit it as the first game to use it, in Namco Museum Vol.3. Galaxian built on Space Invaders format using more colours, animations and effects.

The scoring system also has more depth with players awarded more points for taking down the enemies as they charge the player. Yellow invaders award the most and a bonus is given if you shoot one after directly taking down it's two red escorts, as all three dive at you.Footage taken from the Namco Japanese arcade release set 2.

Namco has since renamed the whole series the United Galaxy Space Force (UGSF) and even have a official website to it: https://ugsf-series.com/

You can see our review of Namco Museum Vol.3 which included Galaxian here: http://randomisedgaming.tumblr.com/post/80804258973/namco-museum-vol3-review-vol-9

Riven provides a short intro on the game during the attract sequence with some high score hints and tips.

Also known as: ギャラクシアン (Japan)

Release: 1979
Developer: Namco / ナムコ
Publisher: Namco (Japan) Midway & Bally (Overseas)
Format: Format: Arcade (Arc) / アーケードゲーム

The arcade version of Galaxian is also available on the following home formats, outside of the single Wii Virtual Console release it can normally be found as part of arcade gaming compilations:

PlayStation - Namco Museum Vol.3 (1996)
PC - Namco History Vol.4 (1998) (Japan Only)
Nintendo 64 - Namco Museum 64 (1999)
Dreamcast - Namco Museum (2000) (North America Only)
PS2, Xbox & Gamecube - Namco Museum (2001)
Gameboy Advance - Namco Museum (2001)
PlayStation Portable - Namco Museum Battle Collection (2005)
PS2, Xbox, GC, PC - Namco Museum 50th Anniversary (2005)
Nintendo DS - Namco Museum DS (2007)
Nintendo Wii - Namco Museum Remix (2007)
Xbox 360 - Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade (2008)
Nintendo Wii - Virtual Console (2009) (Service now closed)

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All footage captured from MAME 0.195 using Open Broadcast Software. Video upscaled to UHD 4K during edit to improve quality on Youtube.

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