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Galaxian 2 (also written as Galaxian II [1]) is a handheld electronic game that was released in 1981 in the US by Entex Industries. [2] It was also released the same year in Japan under the name Astro Galaxy [3] and in Europe under the name Astro Invader. [4] The game was also released under the Futuretronics brand in Australia.
Space Invaders [b] is a 1978 shoot 'em up arcade video game, developed and released by Taito in Japan and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution. Commonly considered to be one of the most influential video games of all time, Space Invaders was the first fixed shooter and the first video game with endless gameplay (meaning there was no final level or endscreen) and set the ...
Latest release. Galaga Revenge. January 2019. Galaxian[ a] is a shoot'em up video game franchise developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, formerly Namco. Some entries were outsourced to other developers, such as Hasbro Interactive, Bandai and Paladin Studios. The series first began in 1979 with the arcade game Galaxian, which was ...
Galaxian was designed by Kazunori Sawano, who had previously worked on many of Namco's electro-mechanical shooting gallery arcade games, notably Shoot Away (1977). [9] Early in the game's development, Taito had released Space Invaders in Japan, which swept the country by storm and helped turn the video game industry into a highly-profitable business.
Galaga[ a] is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco. In North America, it was released by Midway Manufacturing. It is the sequel to Galaxian (1979), Namco's first major video game hit in arcades. Controlling a starship, the player is tasked with destroying the Galaga forces in each stage while avoiding enemies ...
Space Invaders. video games. Series logo. Epoch released the Japan-exclusive TV Vader in 1980, which was a Space Invaders clone that could be played at home. Space Invaders is a Japanese shooting video game released in 1978 by Taito. It was developed by Tomohiro Nishikado, who was inspired by other media: Breakout, The War of the Worlds, and ...
Galaga '91 is a 1991 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Namco for the Game Gear.It was published by Sega in Europe and renamed Galaga 2.The first portable installment in the Galaxian series, players control a lone starfighter in its mission to eradicate the hostile Galaga forces before they take over Earth.
Galaga '88 is a fixed shooter video game. Its plot involves the launch of a starship named the Blast Fighter [1] to destroy the hostile Galaga forces and their home planet. Its gameplay is similar to its predecessors; as the Blast Fighter, the player must shoot each of the Galaga aliens, who fly into formation from the top and sides of the ...