Atari 2600 Review: Galaxian
Galaxian is one of the top 5 most played games for the Atari 2600 in my collection. The idea of the game is simple “destroy the Galaxian fleet before they blast your laser base to stardust.”. For a Atari 2600 game the controls are smooth feeling. Graphics (remeber its the early 80’s) are well done for there time, and sound above avg..
It is one of the games for the 2600 that have just the right amount of everything. They didnt try to make it more than it should have been and just stuck to a great now simple game play. I dont remeber hearing about it being any great game back in its day, but remeber a lot of people having it, which is prob. the same thing. In any case it has stood the test of time in my game play and is something I always have to play when in a session of 2600.
May 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 am
shawn and i play that quite a bit… :)
May 23rd, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Emu or orig?
May 24th, 2006 at 6:37 am
an emu… on the xbox.. we also do the pac-man thing.. hehe go back and forth between those.. throw a little centipede thing in for fun..
i think that galaxian is that one game i was talking to you about that i use to play all the time.. but couldn’t remember what it was.. if you remember that conversation.. :)
May 24th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
I think I remeber something along those lines. How is the xbox controller for that, because I noticed my old freevo game bad didnt play them near as nice as the new cheaper ones. The cheaper ones just seem less sensitive and more in par with SNES and past systems.
May 25th, 2006 at 6:31 am
well the only thing i noticed was a bit of a delay with the pacman .. unless your turning just before the turn you aren’t going to make it.. other than that its fine
May 26th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
hehe i think that might be it working right, The 2600 was not known for its raw speed… well atleast now. :)