This is aweeeesoooome...
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The Galaga 88 Wiki is really good! I read through it after I bought the game. It's sitting in my living room so I'm a bit biased, but it's one of my fav arcade machines. The first one is great but 88 has so much more depth. It's like they took everything great about the first game and just improved on it without getting gimmicky or deviating too much (like Galplus IMO). I find the colorful anime graphics fun and love the sound effects. Plus the game is extremely challenging but not in a cheap way. Sadly they didn't make many kits so a lot of people haven't been able to appreciate its genius.
Was Galaga 88 an upgrade kit to the original Galaga? Or did they sell all original 88' games?
Galaga '88' is a Jamma board, so you'd need a Jamma adapter to put the pcb in an original galaga cab. Galaga '88' is on the namco system 1 pcb like splatterhouse, dragon spirit, pacmania and a handful of other games. Vector labs has 2 multi-kits for the pcb. Galaga '88' is my wife's favorite game(wish I could find a cab for it) and it's purchase is the sole reason I'm able to Keep the games I have.
Was Galaga 88 an upgrade kit to the original Galaga? Or did they sell all original 88' games?
I like Galaga 88, its cut scenes, music, are a delight. It was one of the games at the entrance to the arcade at Miami International mall. They do seem hard to find now, but not 1500$ hard.
Very cool.
I love my Galaga cocktail game but I really want an Galaga upright. I was thinking of making an Ultimate Galaga cab. Original Galaga art but with jamma switcher to choose Galaga, Galaga 88 & Galaga 3....
I'd have to figure out the joy stick differences between the games but I think that would be a kick ass cab to have.
They are Namco System 1 boards, so no, not upgrades to original Galaga.
The manual mentions they came as kit upgrades for Dragon Spirit, and dedicated 88's.
2-way joystick for Galaxian, Galaga, Galaga '88
8-way joystick for Gaplus (a.k.a. Galaga 3)
2-way joystick for Cosmo Gang the Video though it also supports 2-player simultaneous play with controls for each player
Pac-Mania is also Namco System 1 so it should be possible to upgrade that as well.
Note there were 23 Namco System 1 games but most weren't released outside of Japan. Pac-Mania, Galaga '88 and Dragon Spirit were licensed by Atari, Splatterhouse was released directly by Namco and I think Tank Force was released here as well (it has the FBI screen).
Thanks for the info.
So I wonder if there is some kinda of way to make a selectible 2-way to 8-way joystick? Maybe through a metal plate under the CPO which could be slid back and forth depending on which game you wanted to play....
Maybe I'm just dreaming here.....
2-way games on a 8-way joystick shouldn't be a problem. It's 4-way games on a 8-way joystick that's a problem because of the diagonals.
Galaga 88 has an Atari logo 8-way joystick, even though you can only move laterally in the game. Not sure why it came with an 8-way. I believe the only time that you use anything other than left-right on the joystick is when in the service menu.
anybody interested in a Gaplus for $450 in Detroit, MI area? (not mine)
https://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/vgm/d/gaplus-galaga-3-arcade/6410778005.html
If Detroit was within 3-4 hours of Boise, that would be MINE already...
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