• Galaxian is a 1979 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Namco. The player assumes control of the Galaxip starfighter in its mission...
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  • Look up galaxian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Galaxian may refer to: Galaxian video games by Namco Galaxian (1979 arcade game), shooter video game...
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  • Galaxian is the fifth album by keyboardist Jeff Lorber as leader of his band "The Jeff Lorber Fusion". Released in 1981, this was Lorber's last album as...
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  • Galaxian is a shoot'em up video game franchise developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, formerly Namco. Some entries were outsourced to other...
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    America, it was released by Midway Manufacturing. It is the sequel to Galaxian (1979), Namco's first major video game hit in arcades. Controlling a starship...
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  • Galaxian 2 (also written as Galaxian II ) is a handheld electronic game that was released in 1981 in the US by Entex Industries. It was also released the...
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  • genre was then further developed by arcade hits such as Asteroids and Galaxian in 1979. Shoot 'em ups were popular throughout the 1980s to early 1990s...
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    displayed human-like characters. The Namco Galaxian arcade system board, for the 1979 arcade game Galaxian, displays animated, multi-colored sprites over...
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  • superweapon set to destroy what is left of the human race. An entry in the Galaxian series, Galaxian3 was conceived following Namco's success with motion-based...
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    game, a year later. Among Namco's first major hits was the fixed shooter Galaxian in 1979. It was followed by Pac-Man in 1980. Namco prospered during the...
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  • travelling to other planets and mixing with other aliens, above all the Galaxians. Using his saucer, he and Khena divide their time between Earth, planet...
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    in sections 137 and 138 in the General Admission area of the stadium. Galaxians are the first and original supporter group of the LA Galaxy, having been...
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    Astro Wars (redirect from Super Galaxian)
    Grandstand under licence from Epoch Co., who sold the game in Japan as Super Galaxian (スーパーギャラクシアン), and in the United States as Galaxy II. The game originally...
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  • ISBN 978-1-4721-1881-3. Radar Scope owed much to the popularity of Space Invaders and Galaxian, but nevertheless felt original thanks to its 3D third-person perspective...
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  • Pac-Man (1980, not in the GBA version) Ms. Pac-Man (1982) Galaga (1981) Galaxian (1979) Pole Position (1982) Dig Dug (1982) The GBA version does not retain...
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  • the player's space station. Gameplay is similar to Space Invaders and Galaxian, but viewed from a three-dimensional third-person perspective. Radar Scope...
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    included Computer Space, The Oregon Trail, Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Galaxian, Combat, Breakout, Lunar Lander, Sea Wolf, and Zork. Notable early arcade...
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  • of Space Invaders in 1978 led to a wave of shoot-'em-up games such as Galaxian and the vector graphics-based Asteroids in 1979, made possible by new computing...
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    Gun Fight (1975), Sea Wolf (1976), and Space Invaders (1978). The Namco Galaxian arcade system in 1979 used specialized graphics hardware that supported...
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  • under masks as The Nightmares. The duo also worked under masks as The Galaxians for WCW in the 1990s. Davis also had a brief stint during the latter days...
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  • to: Galaga video games based on "Galaxian" by Namco Galaga (1981 arcade game), video game by Namco, sequel to Galaxian Namco Galaga (1982 arcade hardware)...
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  • such as Atari's Asteroids, Williams Electronics' Defender, and Namco's Galaxian and Galaga, which were modeled after Space Invaders' gameplay and design...
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    largely based on arcade video games, particularly the hardware for Namco's Galaxian (1979) and Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980) and Donkey Kong (1981), with the...
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    arcade game Namco Museum Compilation consisting of Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Pole Position, and Dig Dug Napoleon Real-time strategy game Pinobee: Wings...
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    1 August 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019. Lucas, Victor (26 June 1996). "Galaxian/Galaga". Electric Playground. Archived from the original on 4 August 1997...
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    and developed by Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto. Radar Scope rivaled Galaxian in Japanese arcades but failed to find an audience overseas and created...
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    BandaiNA/PAL February 15, 1985JP February 15, 1985 September 1988 1988 Galaxian Namco September 7, 1984JP September 7, 1984 Unreleased Unreleased Galaxy...
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  • twist, while others called it too similar to other fixed shooters like Galaxian. Prior to Wavy Navy, McAuley wrote several Apple II games for Creative...
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  • When the game was being developed, Namco was underway with designing Galaxian, which used a then-revolutionary RGB color display, allowing sprites to...
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    that Artic violated Midway's copyright in their arcade games Pac-Man and Galaxian. The lawsuit was part of a trend of "knock-off" video games in the early...
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