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2. General Analysis
Galaga 88 as we mentioned is a shoot'em up, this genre consists of the protagonist ( this case the starship named the Blast Fighter ) combats against a large number of enemies ( the galaga's forces ) by shoothing them while dodgging some attacks the enemies will do. The current shoot'em up games refer to the design established in those shooting games of the eighties. Where the common elements are the viewed from a top-down or side-view perspecitve, some vehicle or spacecraft as the player under a constant attack, the goal of reach the end by killing everything that moves, usually with a boss battle at the end of the level.
Galaxian is a shoot'em up video game developed and published by Namco at 1979 in which the player controls a Galaxip starfighter in which to protect the Earth he has to kill waves of aliens that will try to attack the player. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxian)
Gaplus is a shoot'em up too developed and released by Namco, where in this game we need to kill successive waves of enemies called "Parsecs" with the objective of obtain as many points as possible. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaplus)
Galaga 88 is a videogame developed and published in Japan at 1987 by Namco and by Atari in North America and Europe. Namco limited was a japanese multinational videogame and entretainment company founded in 1955. For other part Atari Games Corporation was an american producer of arcade videogames, active from 1985 to 1999. Galaga 88 is the third sequel to Galaxian (following Galaga, and Gaplus) with better graphics than the previous games.
The first thing we got about galaga 88 was a prototyoe demostrated in october 1987 at the Japanese Amusement Machine, then Namco decide to publish it in december 1987. In july 1988, for the PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) was released a home conversion of Galaga '88. Also was published by NEC for the console's North American a year later under the name Galaga '90. Dempa in the same year released a version of Galaga '88 for the X68000 computer, this version was named Galaga '88 Arrangement wich includes additional gamemode that replaces the Galaga aliens with characters from other classic Namco video games.
Eventually over time versions of the game were adapted for different consoles, such as in 2007 by Namco for the Wii, followed by an arcade version in Japan in 2009 . Phone versions were also made such as the i-Mode in 2007 and the EZweb in 2008. The PC Enginge version was re-released for the PlayStation Network in 2001 under the Game Archives series. Finally under the Arcade Archives label in 2023, Hamster Corporation released the arcade version for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
