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Galaxian

Answered Space Invaders with color sprites and diving attackers, setting the fixed-shooter template.

Released 1979 Developer Namco Platform Arcade Genre Shoot 'em up Era The home cartridge

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Galaxian inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Numeric Score 1972Lives and Continues 1978Coin-Op Difficulty Economy 1978Persistent High-Score Table 1979

The Galaxian series in this dataset

1979
Galaxian this page
1981

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