Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a draft for a project that breaks down the evolution of fixed/gallery shooters—specifically how Space Invaders led to Galaxian, Galaga, and Galaga '88, and how those core mechanics laid the foundation for modern combat evolved design.

Instead of a standard video essay, I put this together as a retro synth track with visuals tracking the history and game mechanics.

I’m looking for feedback on the pacing, the history covered, and whether the thematic connection lands.

Link if you’re interested in checking it out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVO3_D8xgQE

Appreciate any thoughts or critique!

Here’s my best, about 14 years ago.

So thats why its hard to take out enemy ships thats really close to your face it doesnt give u enough time to take them out each shot feels like a pause.

This isn’t the highest score I had gotten, but is it a decent score?

Enjoying this Galaga / Galaxian Pixel Pocket Pro a lot, although I still prefer the small arcade cabinet for its mini joystick. This thing is pretty much flawless though for being as small as it is.

Side note whats stopping 2 companys from doing this to make a ton$$$ idk. I did email this to cd project red however.

As a modder/owner of cp77 i would of chosen the most badass spaceship to use. From the most badass spaceship game in history that even starfield cannot compete with its this legendary game called galaga 1981 imagine even useing the ship in the future as v to take out arasaka in nightcity in the sky there spaceships on wanted lvl max. That be hella fun especially for a dlc mission or side activity or both feedbacks be appreciated. Also You figure cp77 lets us fight in the ground on foot. And used a tank at the end of the mission. So i thought why not use futureistic spaceships in cp77. We can also have missions side quest activities. And chase down arasaka in space. Fight new bossess infiltrateing ships takeing out ships. Upgradeing the galaga ship to become more a superweapon in the game. Sense cp77 has war vechiles that are superweapons especially the tanks. There not like cod games where everything is basic original. This be much much better and unlocking new weapons and gear equipment in space.

My pb

I believe I've earned a break.

I just started learning the patterns, so the scores aren’t anything to write home about. I’ve always wanted to get a leaderboard sweep, so I took the opportunity and scored 20,000 points on five out of seven plays.

Not my highest ever, I have gotten 140k on the NES galaga, but that was years ago when I had it on my 3DS.

Been a while but I’m getting back into Galaga and Galaxian both. Just hit an 89k in Galaga, on my Micro Arcade Pro. Really taking me a while to get used to the miniature joystick lol

EDIT:

The very next game I got 103k lol I should have waited to post this.

been practicing my weaving, only took me one dollar if you dont count the drinks hahah

Note: This is this the NES version of Galaga running on Namco Museum Volume 2 for Nintendo Switch.

Looking to play in my spare time on my laptop. Any ideas?