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- G A L A X I A N
- Published by Atarisoft
- Text by Dave Moorman
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- Galaxian took the classic Space
- Invaders a giant step forward. Not
- only did the twitching aliens move in
- formation and lob back deadly
- missiles, now sortees of suicide craft
- turn and engage in a rear holding
- action.
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- Action. And color! Video games
- were coming into their own. On the
- home front, sophisticated color and
- sound brought much of the coin-op
- excitement right into the living room
- television set or computer monitor.
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- This game appears to be ported to
- the C-64 from another platform,
- possibly Apple II. Note that the very
- restricted explosions are square edged
- -- and smaller than the VIC II
- Moveable Objects. The action is a bit
- sluggish, and pretty much what made
- the arcade version a great hit.
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- But that was the way with
- commercial software in the hurly-burly
- days of multiple platforms. Like the
- flying intergalactic ships, computer
- games were finding their wings.
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- DMM
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