Galaga 88 all bosses series#

Another type of enemy takes at least five hits to destroy, and it grows larger with each consecutive hit, making it both a larger target and allowing it to act as a shield to other enemies. These creatures take multiple hits to destroy in flight (just one hit in formation), and their main attack pattern is to move about halfway down the screen, stop, fire multiple shots at once, and then fly straight down off the bottom of the screen. Some enemies arrive in spherical 'eggs' and emit a loud, high-pitched noise when hit. Others explode in a brilliant shower of fireworks when destroyed, and occasionally these enemies drop a small formation of much smaller enemies that 'wiggle' their way down the screen. Some enemies now have the ability to combine into a much larger single enemy that takes multiple shots to destroy. The player can begin with one ship with two in reserve or start right out with a dual ship (but only one in reserve). The objective is to shoot all 40 enemies before they disappear, for a bonus of at least 10,000 points.

Periodically the player encounters Challenging Stages, which are set to music and feature 'dancing' enemies. The reason why Waltz replaced the Tropical Beach theme in every port and remake of the game is because the enemy movement in the Tropical stage is extremely similar and yet uncannily, to the Waltz stage's enemy movements.Galaga '88 takes the basic gameplay of Galaga and adds higher-quality graphics, triple ship abilities, parsec progression, power-ups, asteroids, bosses and other enhancements. The 1st bonus stage uses the Waltz theme, the 2nd bonus stage using the Celebration theme, the 3rd bonus stage using the Ragtime theme, the 4th bonus stage uses the Samba theme, the 5th bonus stage was intended to use the Tropical theme, and the 6th and final stage uses the March theme. Unlike Gaplus and the original Galaga, each of the bonus stages now have their own unique music themes.

The player can also have their Dual Gyaraku captured and recovered for a new, more powerful, Triple Ship.(Which not only has three guns but, three upgraded guns.) After the player receives the ending after the last stage they either enter their name on the leaderboard or play through the stages again until they die.(Depending on the version.) Dimensional travel is activated when a player captures two Icems and plays through a challenging stage.Then the challenging stages are renamed 'That's Galactic Dancin'' and have classical music playing as a joke. The player also has dimensional travel which let's the player see the level in a different way, face a different boss and see a different ending. There are bosses now, which aren't elaborate, but make for some frenzied shooting. Every level has a background to fit the location, similar to other storyline-esque shoot 'em ups. The gameplay is just like that of Galaga, only enhanced. (If you count your ship exploding as one.) There are four different canonical endings, as well as a non-canonical one. Depending on which Dimension the player defeated the final boss in, they view a different ending.

Galaga 88 all bosses series#

This is the first game of the series to have different endings in the story. And they did, they attacked a UGSF outpost, all fighters from the Lunar Command Center were launched & ordered to attack any Galaxian fighters upon sight. The UGSF prepared fighters & pilots for war, but kept all at base to wait for the Legions to make their move. The Galaga Legions have returned as expected, and are using more strategic methods this time, they've taken every planet in their galaxy & are using them as bases, on top of that, they're using special tech called Icems to enhance their fighters & warp to locations at quick speeds.