Space Invaders/ Galaxian / Galaga

[Anonymous No.4718272]

What are your favorite games in this genre of shmup?

[Anonymous No.4718290]

came close to 100000 tonight, have to get better at challenge levels again

[Anonymous No.4718291]

>>4718272
Galaga '88 is noice. Imagine playing that in a casino, and they were in them.

[Anonymous No.4718293]

>>4718272
King & Balloon

[Anonymous No.4718321]

GORF motherfuckers.

[Anonymous No.4718369]

>>4718321
If Midway is fucking dead, and Taito's Space Invaders, along with Bandai-Namco's Galaxians were unwilling participants in it, who the fuck owns Gorf today?

[Anonymous No.4720052]

>>4718293
>>4718321

Fuck yes.

As for me, most likely Pleiades, though.
Moon Quasar and Space Bugger are fun too.

[Anonymous No.4721564]

>>4718369
i need to know this for reasons

[Anonymous No.4721656]

Space Invaders for the GBC (it has a black cartridge).
I was literally just playing it just now. (Got to the last level of Earth before the boss on Normal. Got wiped. Got further on Easy mode before though)
It's very good. You shoot enemies in waves. Each planet has a special alien type with a unique quirk.
Occasionally you face a boss, which is a giant alien ship that gets progressively more powerful each time you face it, or meteor showers.
You get three different types of ships. One starts you off with three shields and has a longer invulnerablility time when you collect an extra shield over your max three, but its slower and weapons dont last very long. Another starts with just one shield, and has a short invuln window but is faster and has longer lasting weapon powerups. The last type of ship is in the middle of the two.
You can also do a trick where you sacrifice a shield to wipe aliens that are about to fly into you. You can also dash by double tapping left or right.
It's probably one of the best Gameboy games.

[Anonymous No.4721660]

>what are your favorite games in this genre

Honestly, straight up Galaga. Having a Galaga cabinet is on my bucket list

[Anonymous No.4722642]

>>4718272

Battlantis. It's space invaders (plus a few twists) with an ancient Greece/Rome theme. Surprisingly addictive.
BTW, the name of this genre is "fixed shooter".

[Anonymous No.4722653]

1) Tempest
2) Tempest 3000
3) IS internal section (does this one count?)

[Anonymous No.4722657]

I don't know if I've ever actually played Galaxian. What is different between Galaga and Galaxian?

[Anonymous No.4722661]

>>4721660

I'd rather have the cocktail table, but otherwise yeah, bucket-list worthy.

[Anonymous No.4722665]

>>4722657

Way more movement from enemies.
Enemies who capture your ship (and the chance to get it back and become a double-shooter).
Bonus point levels.

[Anonymous No.4722669]

>>4722665

Sorry, that's what galaga has over galaxian. Galaxian is very static except for the occasional dive bomber.

[Anonymous No.4722781]

>>4722661
I've got some plans to build a cocktail cabinet this summer. I am disabled and can't move very well so I will have to be a bit careful with my design.

Right now I think I'm going to find a piece of furniture that is already put together that I can cut a hole in the top of, and then decase an old CRT monitor or mount it in there. Then put a piece of smoked glass over that.

Don't know how I'd install the controls. I could do the old "school desk" style cocktail controls that stick out towards the player, I could just drill holes in the top, or I could build a control box to attach. I think I am leaning toward the school desk design.

[Anonymous No.4722784]

>>4722781
A "school desk" cocktail cabinet.

[Anonymous No.4723191]

>>4722784
I never liked how same-ey cocktail cabinets and modern-day Japanese cabinets looked.

[Anonymous No.4723196]

Best game right here!

[Anonymous No.4723207]

>>4723196
Indeed!

[Anonymous No.4723208]

>>4723196
I was afraid to mention Cosmo Gang myself and I don't know why.

[Anonymous No.4723221]

Well the OG Galaga is my favorite, with Galplus in a close second.

>>4718291
>Imagine playing that in a casino
Sounds comfy, especially with the Game Over theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPtCg_mSWMs

[Anonymous No.4723224]

>>4723208
Because as a young male you are not allowed to like cute things in this society. Kinda of like how you have to pretend you don’t still like Pokémon until you’re 30.

[Anonymous No.4723227]

>>4723196
Never heard of it, looks cute

>>4723224
Fuckin' A. I've stopped caring about that a while ago, though

[Anonymous No.4723658]

>>4722642
Yeah, that's a cool game anon. Would like a remake of that

[Anonymous No.4723905]

Demon Attack (Atari 2600) and Attack of the Timelord! (Magnavox Odyssey 2).

[Anonymous No.4723961]

>>4721656
Space Invaders has had decent quality control, a lot of games in the franchise are good. Original is still well worth playing too.

>>4722653
If Tempest counts then it and Robotron are my answers. Even better than Galaga, which is 10/10 itself. Centipede and Millipede are great too. Also Satan's Hollow is one to check out.

[Anonymous No.4724914]

>>4723191
I guess I just think cocktail tables are romantic. They put me in a different mind of old arcade games. I don't think of them as being in arcades so much (even though they were in plenty of them) but instead think of the odd ones you'd find in the lobby of a restaurant, or a hotel. Maybe in the recreation room of a public pool facility. And maybe you'd have a young woman along with you, and you'd sit down and play a game or two together.

[Anonymous No.4724957]

>>4723961
Robotron is pure bliss.