best arcade game update/upgrade/remake/reinvent....

[ArcadeKO]

If you want a realistic explanation of which is a better game - more girls like Galaga. Why? Because it's easy to figure out and play.

Is there something easier to figure out in galaga than in galaxian? I haven't played galaxian in a while and I have played galaga but I don't remember much of a difference in how to play -

they are both essentially shoot the enemy ships - avoid getting shot - right?

I mean Galaga with the ship capture would seem more counter-intuitive since it appears to be a bad thing that the enemy is capturing your ship - but its the only way to get double fire - i don't remember anything in galaxian like that - is there something? I'ts been ages since I played - I guess I quit when Galaga came out

 

[skinnyt007]

Galaga--->Galaga 3 or 88
pacman--->ms.pacman
tekken---> t4
house of dead---> hod3
San Francisco Rush---> San Francisco Rush The Rock: Alcatraz Edition

hell i can go on and on

 

[gutsman004]

Popular doesn't = better.

Top 10 Most Popular Games
As selected by the KLOV.com readers

1. Pac-Man
2. Galaga <-------------BINGO!
3. Donkey Kong
4. Star Wars
5. Ms. Pac-Man
6. Dig Dug
7. Asteroids
8. Defender
9. Tron
10. Tempest (tie)
10. Centipede (tie)


Galaxian? Where are you?!


Majority rules...the populous has spoken.

If you want a realistic explanation of which is a better game - more girls like Galaga.

If you want a realistic explanation of which is a better game - more people like Galaga. Fixed!

Games like Defender, Gravitar, Robotron, etc are more complicated and take more skill to excel. That doesn't make them a lesser game, but do make them less popular overall to the masses.

I never found any of those games to be very complicated.

I personally think that if you're going to have a repetitive game like Galaga, Galaxian, Pac-Man, etc, then you need to add an element of difficulty to keep it interesting. Galaga's difficulty increase is way too low for the casual player. I suck at the game, almost never play it unless I'm fixing one, and I can still hit level 35 usually. Can't do that on Galaxian. Plus Galaxian has the better cabinet...

Game manufacturers didn't want to make games TOO hard,else they made LITTLE money.If one didn't feel like they were making much if any progess with a game,most people would've just gotten pissed off,said the hell with it,and took their quarters elsewhere.So maybe the creators eased up on the difficulty when they were making Galaga.I don't blame them.

Either way,proudly favor whichever game you like better. And don't take this too seriously Mod,just joshin' ya a little.

 

[joemagiera]

I just finished putting the street fighter 1 back together.. man, that game is horrible! SFII was an amazing improvement!!

Got me to think what was the best arcade game update/upgrade/remake/reinvent.... I would go with SF1=>SFII

Might as well include what was the worst.. I would go with Spyhunter => spyhunter II

I like Q*bert's Qubes much better than Q*bert.

I like Millipede much better than Centipede (heck, I don't like Centipede at all).