Galaga 88 – coming seven years after the original – kept that basic theme, and even allowed you to start off in double formation.
Which generally wasn’t long, because your new ship was twice the width -and when the swooping aliens decided to come back up from the bottom of the screen, there was close to bugger all you could do about it. Get sucked up, and use your next ship to rescue the first, and both ships then fight side-by-side. The Original Galaga was a basic wave-after-wave shoot-’em-up with one basic twist the rabbit-eared spaceships that sat on the top row had a tractor beam. Galaga for PC/Mac/Windows 7,8,10 and have the fun experience of using the smartphone Apps on Desktop or personal computers.
