![]() ![]() Like Space Invaders, Galaxian features a pulsating background noise, but here it's more of a drone and easily ignored. Upon inserting a quarter and pressing Start, a high-pitched, shrieking rendition of Woody the Woodpecker emits from the cabinet, and it only gets worse from here on. Unlike the excellent graphics, the sound, if you can call it that, is simply atrocious. The starscape background is also quite attractive. Because of this, Galaxian features bright and colorful bug-like aliens and a well-defined ship for the player. All of Galaxian's graphics are in RGB (Red-Green-Blue) color, where each pixel has a triad of RGB values. Imagery is certainly Galaxian's strong suit as this is the first ''true'' color game. ![]() However, Midway, while plenty used to licensing, manufacturing, and redesigning games was not too used to programming original ones, and boy does it show in Galaxian.Ĭan't get much more simple than that: navigate the ship, Galaxip (try pronouncing that one), and shoot at the aliens (bugs). Hopping on the success of Space Invaders, Bally Midway in 1979 released Galaxian, the first in a series of games with similar game play. ![]()
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