Game News - Galaga On Xbox Live
In the year of 1981, the first Galaga arcade machine became a North American arcade. Still, from the Namco Games classic, the title remained popular, spawning several arcade sequels.
Believe it or not, during the early 1990s, one original Galaga near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus was used as an ersatz breathalyzer. So if a player would try his luck on the game, he could not score more than 30,000 points, his car keys were immediately seized. Today, a working unit still remains a popular attraction in San Francisco's Chinatown district.
Galaga has also been available for multiple non-arcade platforms. In the 1980s the game was made for the NES, Turbo Grafix 16, Commodore 64, and Atari 7800. In the 1990s, find it on the Game Boy, the PlayStation and N64 as part of the Namco Museum collection. Then in 2000 Galaga-inclusive editions of Namco Museum was released on the PC, PSP, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Game Boy Advance. Galaga had edition available for the mobile phones and PDA games.
But today Galaga has come, finally, to the newest game platform, which is the Xbox 360. The game is part of its Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays release campaign. So today Microsoft made the game available on Xbox Live. The game is equel to 400 Marketplace points, which means approximately $5.
The 360 Galaga version is a straight port of the arcade game. It offers only offline one or two-player games. This in the conditions in which other older games re-released on Xbox Live Arcade have modern-day features like online multiplayer and updated graphics options.
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