Galaga

Galaga is a fixed shooter arcade video game released in 1981 by Namco. Midway Manufacturing released it in North America. It is the sequel to Galaxian (1979), Namco's first significant arcade video game blockbuster. The player, who controls a spacecraft, is charged with eliminating the Galaga troops in each stage while avoiding opponents and missiles. Some foes can use a tractor beam to capture a player's ship, which can then be retrieved to change the player into a "dual fighter" with increased firepower.

With a tiny staff, Shigeru Yokoyama oversaw development. The initial planning took around two months to complete. Originally designed for the Namco Galaxian arcade board, it was moved to a different system when Namco's Research & Development section proposed it. The twin fighter mechanism was inspired by a video that Yokoyama had watched previous to development in which a spacecraft was captured utilizing a big circular beam. Namco's president Masaya Nakamura even expressed interest in the concept after hearing about it.

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