The player controls a little spaceship of their own which can move left or right all along the bottom of the screen. The way you earn these points are by annihilating as many bug looking spaceships before they inevitably try to destroy you. The sole objective of the game is to earn as many points as physically possible, and to beat the current high scorer on the leader board. Developed by Namco in 1985, Galaga is a direct sequel to Galaxian, released in 1979 and was created as a direct competitor to the highly successful and well known Space Invaders.

While this may not sound as exciting as the ever expanding open-world design found in many AAA titles today, back in the 80s when Galaga was released, this game design created one of the most successful shooters to this very day. Fixed shooters restrict the player to a single axis of motion, enemies attack from one direction all on one plane. Shooters are categorized by viewpoint and movement in particular, as well as design elements. Nowadays we have the popular first person shooters everyone knows such as Call of Duty and Counter Strike, but fixed axis shooters are something else they are where it all began, what shooters all began with. Galaga is part of the rarely found fixed shooters genre. We offer more Shoot ’em up, Arcade and Namco games so you can enjoy playing similar titles on our website. Here, at My Emulator Online, you can play Galaga for the NES console online, directly in your browser, for free. Release year: 1985 | Players: 1 player | Developed by Namco

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