Posts Tagged ‘Namco’

Galaga

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Released by in 1981 Galaga is a . Galaga is a to Galaxian. The controls a and shoots at .

Controls:
Spacebar to shoot
to move

Xevious

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Xevious is a classic side scrolling shoot ‘em up. It was released by in 1982 and was one of the first vertical scrolling shooters.

The original Xevious was the first arcade game to actually have a television commercial aired for it in the U.S. and Atari promoted the game with the slogan “Are you devious enough to beat Xevious?” and closed the commercial with a tag line branding it “the arcade game you can’t at home.” It inspired numerous similar games.

Controls:
Mouse click to start.
Z key to fire
X key to bomb
to move

Controls:

Mouse click to start.
Z key to fire
X key to bomb
Arrow keys to move