I played this one night bored at a bar. The guy who was playing it before said he was one of the lead design / programmer for this game. He showed my cousin and I how to play this game and kill at the right time in the game where the Galaga wouldn't shoot at you the entire rest of the game...as long as you could avoid them coming down and comikazie you. I ended up playing this game and telling the story to a friend while at the College Arcade. We took turns killing and pushing that button what seems like a million times each. We ended up playing for almost 2 hours on the one quarter and I'm sure we had the world record score. If I can remember it was around 25 million. BUt not sure at all. That was 36+ years ago.
I lived in the arcades as a kid and spent hundreds on this game back in the day and got really good. But now, at 55, I must admit that I never considered the effectiveness of the longplay single -ship strategy. Great work and thanks for teaching this old dog new tricks!
sorry to be so off topic but does anyone know a method to log back into an Instagram account..? I somehow lost the password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me.
@Atlas Reed Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
2 weeks ago: Sayonara, Nobuyuki Ohnogi ("Galaga" and other Namco-Bandai games' composer and sound engineer, until 1985 at Namco-Bandai and until 1994 in Game Studio) Ohnogi-san passed away at 63.
Galaga improved a lot of things over Galaxian. While Galaxian, was revolutionary for it's time, being one of the first games to be color and feature individual enemies that act as their own, meaning that Namco took Taito's Space Invaders and expanded on that idea. Galaga, is the game that stands on it's own, it makes a lot improvement on game play, A.I. adjustment and new features.
@@justjxn Well, you're 100% wrong, since I'm that person. ;) I've even done so recently (at FunSpot, the largest arcade in the world). I *never* play Galaga unless there isn't a better game, including Galaxian. I starting playing Galaxian at the arcade before Galaga came out. I'm willing to bet that you started playing arcade games after Galaga came out. I'm sure I'm not the only one that prefers Galaxian. I realize I'm in the minority, though. The cabinet artwork of both is awesome, though.
I love this guy's work on other longplay's but I have to put my hands on my head and say are you kidding me. How many opportunities this person had to get a double ship
That bluesy harmonica riff you hear is the extra life award sound. Your first extra life comes at 20,000 points, the second at 70,000 points, and then every subsequent extra life at 70,000 points thereafter until 1 million points (3rd at 140,000, 4th at 210,000, 5th at 280,000, etc). Your last extra life is awarded at 980,000 points.
I played this game in a movie theater alongside Ms. Pac-Ma in honor of the 20th anniversary of both games with the subtitle "20 Year Reunion: Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga - Class of 1981". It also features Pac-Man as a hidden bonus game. The later 25th Anniversary Edition allows all three games to be selected at the main menu. I recently saw this at the laundrymat.
Looks like you need to have two fighters in order to shoot all of the aliens during the challenging stages, particularly the stages that have the Galaga bosses, which need to be shot twice. One fighter just can't cut it, or at least I haven't seen it done before.
***** Boss Galaga Appears in SSB4 as a Item. Behaves like the Original game, if a Characters is Trapped Repetively Press Left and Right to Escape of it. Also uses it's Sounds of the Original Arcade Version.
Actually, I lost a ship just before the Stage #59 (repeat of Stage #27) challenge stage yesterday and still shot all of them, but it's hard to do. This video is definitely a different approach to Galaga than what I practice, which is the standard double-ship approach. I did start off using single ship only when I was learning the game, and scored 171K before turning to my present approach. I am surprised that this person didn't position his ships better on the challenge stages.
It's possible to complete most or all of the Challenging Stages with just one ship though quite difficult. There's a UA-cam video dedicated to one ship Challenging Stages.
I know is endless SCHLAUCHI. But Galaga and some other SHMUPS that are endless are some I can get use to. This is one of the endless Shooters I am use to. Thanks Namco. I know I like most Shooters with an ending such as Thunder Force, Curse, Raiden Trad, or other Shooters with an ending. Cool game.
Super fun to watch! But there is at least one disappearing alien shot (10:38) and two non-fatal collisions with the player (11:17 and 11:22), so... too much quarantine, obviously ;)
I am so happy and old enough now to realize that video games are my new favorite hobby trust me I went there in terms of work effort over age mentality I have to keep the brain young
I'd say this is played on Mame with cheat enabled ?? Have a look at 25:31 to 25:33 LOWER PLAYBACK SPEED TO 0.25 and you will clearly see one of those blue and yellow (last in a group of 3) pass over the fightership wihtout being killed. This happens several times.
To get that far then trash all your ships? You were playing the perfect game, MAN! You could have won some $$ seriously. There are oldschool tournaments. DEFEND YOUR TITLE! You ROCK! I got to 52. The Deester. I kept my local bar's Galaga machine working. Did you know that this game is one of the only laser disc games still working? That and Dungeon's and Dragons (Yes, the one with the krappy graphics). and the Gauntlet. Ahhhh I SO MISS THE 80'S AND ABOUT 5 ROLLS OF QUARTERS. That was the best Babysitter in my day or the Library. Now I build and fix these things. People go to school for this and don't make it. I was so ahead of my time.
Here is a fun fact. I was listening to the "New CBS Audio-File Sound Effects Library - Vol. 2", and on one of those tracks under "Video Games", there was an audio of a gameplay from "Galaga". Did Columbia/CBS Records used this sound effect of a gameplay from "Galaga"? I guess Namco should sued them.
Awesome playing!, but you can do better on the challenge stages. REMEMBER they always come out of the same spot and exit the same spot. They also turn in the same spot... Set your aim and don't move your man chasing them as much. The first few you should get about 100% 90% of the time. then it gets a little harder.
beingatliberty No. The last "regular" stage is Stage 254, followed by the last Challenging Stage (255), and then "Stage 0", which is Galaga's "kill screen".
beingatliberty that's how the original version ends, but Galaga Arrangement, which is a remake of this game, has an actual final boss and ending followed by the game's credits!
I used to play galaga on a cabinet that has multiple games on it. I remember that at some point that particular one would crash, at that arcade you were cosindered a very good player if you could make galaga crash
255 is usually the cap in these early NAMCO games, and then it starts going bonkers on 256 due to the number variable $FF (for round 0) being way outside the scope of the valid round number range. Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug all had this bug in their round number code.
Good spotting. Alien ship should have killed him, instead it just flew straight through him.There is contact at 13.24 which probably should have killed him. Probably cheating but maybe I am wrong.
I sucked at all arcade games except for Galaga. I could literally play all day on one quarter. After so long and many extra ships I'd end up passing the game off to a stranger.
The person playing is a computer. Don't believe me? Watch the challenging stage at 25:56 and look at how horribly he plays. Anyone who's this good would have the patterns memorized -- I have the challenging stage patterns memorized and I don't perform half as well as this guy.
![Arcade Longplay [270] Arkanoid](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Th-Z6QQ5AOQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I played this one night bored at a bar. The guy who was playing it before said he was one of the lead design / programmer for this game. He showed my cousin and I how to play this game and kill at the right time in the game where the Galaga wouldn't shoot at you the entire rest of the game...as long as you could avoid them coming down and comikazie you. I ended up playing this game and telling the story to a friend while at the College Arcade. We took turns killing and pushing that button what seems like a million times each. We ended up playing for almost 2 hours on the one quarter and I'm sure we had the world record score. If I can remember it was around 25 million. BUt not sure at all. That was 36+ years ago.
*cheese and rice*
36 years gadam years
Was he Japanese? Because if he wasn't, he lied to you.
You got your quarter’s worth
@@itsthatkidagain7050 really?
I lived in the arcades as a kid and spent hundreds on this game back in the day and got really good. But now, at 55, I must admit that I never considered the effectiveness of the longplay single -ship strategy. Great work and thanks for teaching this old dog new tricks!
sorry to be so off topic but does anyone know a method to log back into an Instagram account..?
I somehow lost the password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me.
@Atlas Reed Thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im in the hacking process atm.
Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Atlas Reed it worked and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thank you so much you really help me out!
@Axton Payton glad I could help =)
I mastered this game. Playing with 1 player makes it much harder cleaning out the challenging stages.
Pre internet living and games were the best times..miss those days..Thanks for the Galaga memories
That man's playing Galaga! Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did.
Seen GotG2? That *species* is playing Galaga.
Tony Stark. What a beast
pixels?
:-) That was a very good comment. I really had to laugh. Thank you
I understood that reference.
a milestone in videogame history
This tops "Galaxian" and "Phoenix", but this game beats them all.
2 weeks ago: Sayonara, Nobuyuki Ohnogi ("Galaga" and other Namco-Bandai games' composer and sound engineer, until 1985 at Namco-Bandai and until 1994 in Game Studio)
Ohnogi-san passed away at 63.
Which??
This is one of the best arcade game ever made
This was my Dad's favorite back in the day, and it quickly became one of my favorite classics as well 😎
R.I.P everyone who has died to that item in Smash Bros. 3DS, Wii U, and Ultimate 😔🙏
What do you mean by that?
@@DarylOrganOne of the ships appears as an item in Smash Bros. If it picks you up, it'll lift you into the air, which is an instant death
Galaga improved a lot of things over Galaxian. While Galaxian, was revolutionary for it's time, being one of the first games to be color and feature individual enemies that act as their own, meaning that Namco took Taito's Space Invaders and expanded on that idea. Galaga, is the game that stands on it's own, it makes a lot improvement on game play, A.I. adjustment and new features.
And I'll take Galaxian over Galaga any day. I don't really like Galaga much at all.
absolutely nobody played galaxian at the arcade if there was galaga
@@RetroDawn
@@justjxn Well, you're 100% wrong, since I'm that person. ;) I've even done so recently (at FunSpot, the largest arcade in the world). I *never* play Galaga unless there isn't a better game, including Galaxian. I starting playing Galaxian at the arcade before Galaga came out. I'm willing to bet that you started playing arcade games after Galaga came out. I'm sure I'm not the only one that prefers Galaxian. I realize I'm in the minority, though. The cabinet artwork of both is awesome, though.
I actually remember my first day at the arcade...it was early august 1984. I'm pretty sure galaga was there? @@MelissaLauritaKohlHerbalist
I love this guy's work on other longplay's but I have to put my hands on my head and say are you kidding me. How many opportunities this person had to get a double ship
You can't score big on this game without double ships. Some people never grasped that.
DjZerotheoneandonly Double ship is for beginners. Makes it harder to dodge.
@@theLEGOguy22 TIL the world-record holder is a beginner
@@jklein17 hi john.
@Damar Fadlan ?
That bluesy harmonica riff you hear is the extra life award sound.
Your first extra life comes at 20,000 points, the second at 70,000 points, and then every subsequent extra life at 70,000 points thereafter until 1 million points (3rd at 140,000, 4th at 210,000, 5th at 280,000, etc). Your last extra life is awarded at 980,000 points.
15 Bonus Lives
1 (20,000)
2 (70,000)
3 (140,000)
4 (210,000)
5 (280,000)
6 (350,000)
7 (420,000)
8 (490,000)
9 (560,000)
10 (630,000)
11 (700,000)
12 (770,000)
13 (840,000)
14 (910,000)
15 (980,000)
that sound feels like getting a pat on the back from your dad
I played this game in a movie theater alongside Ms. Pac-Ma in honor of the 20th anniversary of both games with the subtitle "20 Year Reunion: Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga - Class of 1981". It also features Pac-Man as a hidden bonus game. The later 25th Anniversary Edition allows all three games to be selected at the main menu. I recently saw this at the laundrymat.
Wow, this is nostalgic. O_O
I love that arcade. Galaga is basically Space Invaders on steroids. Whoever is playing is a MASTER.
I mastered Galaga but sucked at Space Invaders.
I could watch this all day.
Just don’t watch too much of it in one day, it’s not good for your health.
One of my favorite games.
0:25 - I like that 8-bit sound! It sounds like a harmonica.
Another harmonica-like sound is heard when you earn an extra life.
Oh yeah, I got a lot of memories back. Thank you for that. Greetings from RetroGameCity.
My uncle says this game was how he and my aunt met.
Galaga,shoot 'em up leggendario!
"That man's playing Galaga."
-Tony Stark, 2012
I got hooked on this game in my younger years! 👍👍👍
What a Classic, great sound effects
I remember this game vaguely, the sounds especially
Boy, I used to play Galaga a lot, thx :-)
You scored 25 on challenging stage I. I don't think I've ever scored that low.
It’s always out of 40, every of the 64 total challenging states and always 40 for the regular 192 stages.
This game is why I STAYED in my local Pizza Hut, sometimes I'd order and sometimes I just played
That man is playing Galaga.
Looks like you need to have two fighters in order to shoot all of the aliens during the challenging stages, particularly the stages that have the Galaga bosses, which need to be shot twice. One fighter just can't cut it, or at least I haven't seen it done before.
***** Boss Galaga Appears in SSB4 as a Item. Behaves like the Original game, if a Characters is Trapped Repetively Press Left and Right to Escape of it. Also uses it's Sounds of the Original Arcade Version.
Actually, I lost a ship just before the Stage #59 (repeat of Stage #27) challenge stage yesterday and still shot all of them, but it's hard to do. This video is definitely a different approach to Galaga than what I practice, which is the standard double-ship approach. I did start off using single ship only when I was learning the game, and scored 171K before turning to my present approach.
I am surprised that this person didn't position his ships better on the challenge stages.
It's possible to complete most or all of the Challenging Stages with just one ship though quite difficult. There's a UA-cam video dedicated to one ship Challenging Stages.
I know is endless SCHLAUCHI. But Galaga and some other SHMUPS that are endless are some I can get use to. This is one of the endless Shooters I am use to. Thanks Namco. I know I like most Shooters with an ending such as Thunder Force, Curse, Raiden Trad, or other Shooters with an ending. Cool game.
I like how he always kills himself in the end of one of those endless games like this one
Super fun to watch! But there is at least one disappearing alien shot (10:38) and two non-fatal collisions with the player (11:17 and 11:22), so... too much quarantine, obviously ;)
Great catches.
I came here to hear that beautiful "delay effect" after 38 years 2:18
Galaga is an amazing 1980s Arcade game.
You meant to say was an amazing game back in the 1980s. Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES was even better.
"You're not gonna like it, it's ketchup"
AMAZING Gameplay!
Maravilloso, todo huele a 80' s.
Te faltó dejar capturar tu nave para tener doble cañón. Aunque eres muy hábil.
I am so happy and old enough now to realize that video games are my new favorite hobby trust me I went there in terms of work effort over age mentality I have to keep the brain young
When I was growing up I could never get a double Galaga star fighter bonus when I played this game
0:25, 0:26 and 0:28: Begin!
8:36: LIFE UP! (23:23)
35:10: NEW RECORD! (35:21)
Wow I never made it to stage 50 before but I have scored all the achievements on Xbox Live Arcade.
I'd say this is played on Mame with cheat enabled ?? Have a look at 25:31 to 25:33 LOWER PLAYBACK SPEED TO 0.25 and you will clearly see one of those blue and yellow (last in a group of 3) pass over the fightership wihtout being killed. This happens several times.
Totally right, I watched it myself and clearly he was hit but never exploded. Good eye for catching that, I knew something was up.
To get that far then trash all your ships? You were playing the perfect game, MAN! You could have won some $$ seriously. There are oldschool tournaments. DEFEND YOUR TITLE! You ROCK! I got to 52. The Deester. I kept my local bar's Galaga machine working. Did you know that this game is one of the only laser disc games still working? That and Dungeon's and Dragons (Yes, the one with the krappy graphics). and the Gauntlet. Ahhhh I SO MISS THE 80'S AND ABOUT 5 ROLLS OF QUARTERS. That was the best Babysitter in my day or the Library. Now I build and fix these things. People go to school for this and don't make it. I was so ahead of my time.
One of my favorite arcade games I got to stage 150.
I actually just beat the game!
@@retrorob3248
Stage 0 (256): (Loop 8, Stage 32) (224+32=256)
@@retrorob3248
Stage 0 (256): (Loop 8, Stage 32) 224+32=256)
Wow, the memories! I spent most of my babysitting money on this game, I swear
That's the best part of tech now, you can get the game to play at home
Here is a fun fact. I was listening to the "New CBS Audio-File Sound Effects Library - Vol. 2", and on one of those tracks under "Video Games", there was an audio of a gameplay from "Galaga". Did Columbia/CBS Records used this sound effect of a gameplay from "Galaga"? I guess Namco should sued them.
I love Galaga with Tekken, when i was a kid
I am one of the masters of Galaga. I actually reached to Stage 13 at an arcade a few arcade.
Galaga was an awesome game back then.
Back then it was revolutionary
That last level physically hurt me to watch what he did
It's called World Of Longplays so please replay with ending or at least edit in the kill screen, thank you.
I remember playing this on Namco Museum vol 1 for PS1
*Hey, I know this game where it went to Guam and abducted a soldier!*
i love ur work bro.... im from this vintage
Why did he kill himself at the very end?
Verdadera habilidad de gamer.
That man is playing with a bath tub full of baby gators
Let one of the bad guys cach your ship because you will get 2 ships when you shoot it
The problem with that is that you're basically unable to dodge much at that point
This guy sucks at the challenge stages!!! Holy crud, he would have been run out of our arcades back then!
Awesome playing!, but you can do better on the challenge stages. REMEMBER they always come out of the same spot and exit the same spot. They also turn in the same spot... Set your aim and don't move your man chasing them as much. The first few you should get about 100% 90% of the time. then it gets a little harder.
POV:you as a little kid after paying for a turn
stopped watching at stage 5. Playing Galaga and not getting a ship capture... what the f... ?
Is it the first time you play ?
+crowfix ^This
Moron . Playing single ship is 100x harder .
sigmaSector or even twice as hard seeing as there's bullets x 2 not bullets x 100 you moron
@@davemullen5522 Wow you people take your Galaga really seriously :D
You do realize there is a kill screen, right?
I would Kappa
HeroSteve6070 me 2
HeroSteve6070 if you completed a game from the early 80s with a kill screen that's the ending.
***** i would have, thats why you have labelled it 'World of Longplays' LONG being the operative word
I've would have watched it or at least edit it with the kill screen in it. That's why I sub to World Of Longplays.
wait is that the real ending ?
beingatliberty No. The last "regular" stage is Stage 254, followed by the last Challenging Stage (255), and then "Stage 0", which is Galaga's "kill screen".
***** I really enjoyed this game. Thanks for uploading this to your channel!
beingatliberty that's how the original version ends, but Galaga Arrangement, which is a remake of this game, has an actual final boss and ending followed by the game's credits!
I used to play galaga on a cabinet that has multiple games on it.
I remember that at some point that particular one would crash, at that arcade you were cosindered a very good player if you could make galaga crash
@@jasminejohnston6393 its strange that stage 256 or 0 is a KILL SCREEN. Was that the level causing the game to DNS?
i love ur work bro... withlout doudl cat...its nuts
Siempre lo vi como una versión más sofisticada de Fénix
Wait, it took THIS long to make this video? o_o
Atomic Deathray Average 2 hours if you want he kill screen
FortunaChan No no no, I mean the channel took a couple years to create this video.
@@AtomicDeathray how??
1:35 Oh look is a Christmas tree.
No, that’s a Tractor Beam
What gets me is the not getting picked up to get 2 ships
39 anniversary of galaga
Guay eres el mejor jugador del mundo también en otros juegos mecede solo rendido
damn this game can get quite crazy lol
Still I have the original PCB at my store, completely OK. Ready for sale.
And then ... Starts Tekken
40 years!!!!!
I name it “Galaxy Attack”
it looks like the stages get harder as you go through them
Who doesn’t get captured on purpose in the second stage!? You missed out on having two guns!
Lord Vader you can get double on the first you just need two flies
I Used to Play This in The Arcade
Shooting in Galaga!
Angel Chavez
down load
Never let's his ship get captured for double fire???
No need.
Fighter Captured
Isn't Galaga so post to have over 100 stages just like Bosconian? I'm use to that kind of gaming.
255 is usually the cap in these early NAMCO games, and then it starts going bonkers on 256 due to the number variable $FF (for round 0) being way outside the scope of the valid round number range. Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug all had this bug in their round number code.
Nice video your better than me!
Very very very nice 😀👍
Stage 50: (Loop 2, Stage 18) (32+18=50)
Watch closely or freeze frame the events at 11:11
Hmmm... glitchy or fuckery? Only Longplays knows.
This
Good spotting. Alien ship should have killed him, instead it just flew straight through him.There is contact at 13.24 which probably should have killed him. Probably cheating but maybe I am wrong.
@@wingman0736 hi captain.
Liking the music at 35:10
I sucked at all arcade games except for Galaga. I could literally play all day on one quarter. After so long and many extra ships I'd end up passing the game off to a stranger.
yeah right 🙄
Why die on purpose at level 50??
2 best game ever
The person playing is a computer. Don't believe me? Watch the challenging stage at 25:56 and look at how horribly he plays. Anyone who's this good would have the patterns memorized -- I have the challenging stage patterns memorized and I don't perform half as well as this guy.
i like this game berry much but i always lose
i just not came here for stranger things. i just came here for pixels the movie.
33:38
(Music: Fighter Capturered)
Playing this without getting the dual fighters seems like a misrepresentation of the game.
Great game.🌝🏔️
Till the end...you have to pass 256 stages..it is a bit difficult...I use to do it in 1 step when I was 14....long time ago...ja.ja
huge game