Galaxian is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1979.

Description
Galaxian expanded on the formula pioneered by Space Invaders. Prefer that sooner game, Galaxian featured a horde of attacking alien armies that exchanged shots by owning the streaming video player. Within counterpoint to Space Encroacher, even so, Galaxian added an element of drama by getting a aliens sporadically produce kamikaze-like dives at a streaming video player's ship.

A gameplay was comparatively elementary. Swarm fallowing swarm of alien armies attacked a streaming video player (world health organization controlled a ship which may lone fire meagerly at the best) along the bottom of the screen. A streaming video player would kill 1 swarm, merely to use at times it replaced by a second supplementary aggressive & challenging army in the next screen. a plain & insistent starfield scrolled lazily in the background, nicely contrastive using the action of the game.

Galaxian was super successful for Namco. It was a 1st arcade game to feature confessedly color. Former arcade games simply emulated color by projecting black & white images onto the colorful background.

Legacy

Galaxian was therefore successful that it spawned many watch-higher games. A virtually all popular one was its quick successor, Galaga, which around the big section eclipsed its ascendent inside popularity. Apparently, per instance Gaplus was freed, a audience experienced tired of the recurrent formula of the game, which got been exploited by many similar games by more developers.

Standard arcade games
Galaxian (1979) Galaga (1981) ''Galaga '84 (1984) Gaplus/Galaga 3 (1984) Galaga '88 (1987) Dangerous Seed (1989) Cosmo Gang The Video (1991) Cosmo Gang The Puzzle (1992)

Arcade Laserdisk
Galaxian3 (1990) Galaxian 3 : Design Dragoin (Theatre Sextet) for 6 Players on Deuce ten 110inch RGB Projectors - Xviii Foot Wide Screen Attack Of The Zolgear (1994) (A ROM & laserdisc update for Project Dragoon)

Special versions
Galaxian3 (1990) for 28(!) Players on the Streaming videos : Xvi(!) ten 120inch RGB Projectors - 360 Degree Good Diaper In the area of Screen

Trivia
Other games using the Galaxian title were freed, however it were non developed by Namco & are non considered a portion of the Galaxian canon.

The "leader" ship makes numerous cameo appearances inside many Namco developed or even published games, from either when far back when Pac-Man to when recently as Star Fox:Assault. These are typically referred to therein context when just "a Galaxian".

Because of its significance to the video game industry, Galaxian is popular among collectors. These are ranked when one of a "Top 100 Videogames" per Killer List of Videogames.

The greatest ever score around the game of Galaxian'' was achieved by Gary Whelan of Manchester, England on 13 August 2004 when he managed to amass a number of 399,290 points. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4119613.stm]

A version of the game may be unlocked within Halfway's Mortal Kombat 3.