(Aside: why is it that most cocktail-cabinet arcade game machines around these days are Galaga? Is it the result of some kind of technical and/or memetic survival-of-the-fittest?)
(Aside: why is it that most cocktail-cabinet arcade game machines around these days are Galaga? Is it the result of some kind of technical and/or memetic survival-of-the-fittest?)
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Tue Oct 7 06:44:22 2003
As far as the shooting-flying-things genre goes, I preferred Gyruss. The polar coordinates were a nifty gimmick, and the rendition of Bach's Toccata and Fugue added to the atmosphere.
Posted by: mark | http://donotuselifts.net/ | Tue Oct 7 16:46:25 2003
Gotta d/l link? :-)
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Posted by: Ben | http://rocknerd.org | Tue Oct 7 05:33:39 2003
Because it's a great game, iconic... and very very widely bootlegged. As a result, it runs on a bunch of different 80s-era arcade platforms.