Womb Level: The final stretch of Attack of the Zolgear entails launching an insult on the titular space monster from within.Development Atari 2600 programmer Mark Ackerman, at the time working in Ataris 'think-tank' GCC, was granted a patent for his technique invented for the 2600 port of Galaxian, allowing eight sprites to be displayed in one row. Failure to do so results in an instant Game Over. Trivia 1001 Video Games The Arcade version of Galaxian appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott. This hardware was licensed for many classics like Scramble and Frogger. A sprite multiplexor is used to display a larger number of diving enemies and bombs. However this means enemies leaving the screen will pop out rather than fade smoothly once their Y position wraps around to 0. Timed Mission: By necessity in the Galaxian 3 games due to the laserdisc format: the final segments of those games task the players with destroying a target within a given time limit. Galaxian pushed the limit of video game designs in 1979, with a 3 MHz Z80 and RGB color graphics with hardware sprites overlapping a scrolling background. Sprites are being displayed in the top and bottom borders to give the same playable vertical space as the arcade.Shoot 'em Up: Similar to Space Invaders.One Bullet at a Time: Only one bullet shot by the player ship can be on screen.The Galaxian flagship can score up to 800 points with two escorts during its bombing run and you hit the escorts first. Moving Target Bonus: Hitting an enemy while it's attacking scores more points than hitting it while it was in formation.Game Mod: Nichibutsu's Moon Alien, which adds an energy meter that causes your ship to explode if you run out.The Cameo: That flagship is everywhere.The sequel Galaga makes this a bit more pronounced. Bug War: The aliens vaguely look like bugs, and the cabinet art seems to reflect the idea.

A four-player, single-screen port for PS1 exists as well, which included a new story mode named The Rising of Gourb as a compensation.

Even then, the cabinet is still huge by arcade cabinet standards, to the point of being billed as 'THE WORLD'S LARGEST VIDEO GAME!' at the time. It was a technical breakthrough in 1979, featuring RGB color, multi-colored sprites, a tilemap playfield, vertical scrolling background, and enemies with individual AI routines. It also reduces the number of players from 28 to 6. Battle space aliens and avoid their suicidal attacks to survive in the world of Galaxian, Namcos first installment in the Galaxian franchise. Adaptation Distillation: The arcade version of Galaxian 3 reduces the screen to a pair of screens rather than the 360-degree juggernaut used in the theme park version.

Galaxian sprites