This game holds the honor of being the first game ever to use true RGB color. In many ways they succeeded, producing a game with much more detail, and more varied gameplay as well. Namco designed Galaxian to be a better " Space Invaders" than Space Invaders was. Galaxian was an old arcade game released by Namco way back in 1979 (it was licensed to Midway in the United States). (Insert random arcade ROM legality disclaimer here.) And for the most accurate arcade experience MAME would be a good bet on multiple computer platforms. Of course for the PC there's tons of shareware and freeware clones. The game has been ported to home videogame and computer systems everywhere, including the Atari 800, Commodore 64, Colecovision, Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX, GameBoy, the Sony Playstation (as part of the great Namco Museum series) and the IBM PC for Windows 95. The game has popped up all over the place in other Namco games too, such as the Pac-Man series, Dig-Dug, Ridge Racer series, and most recently in Gun Balina (known in the US and Europe as Point Blank 3). There were a few sequels to the game, including Galaga, Gaplus, and the laserdisc-based Galaxian3. In North America the machine was distributed, like many of the early Namco games, by Bally/Midway. Using the space invaders formula and speeding play up by having the bug-like enemies throw themselves at the player, Galaxian spawned a ton of rip-offs, clones, and homages, most of the earlier ones using the same hardware. Before Galaxian, color overlays were used on arcade screens.
GALAXIAN LOGO FULL
Notable for being the first full color raster game ever.
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Namco's third in-house arcade game, released in 1979.