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2. General Analysis

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Genre

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.


Similar Games

Galaxian

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)

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Gaplus

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)

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History of the game

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