We’ve replaced the monitor with a modern LCD version to give years of trouble free service. This game is an ORIGINAL, and so will have imperfections as it has been used in an arcade all its life. The game was celebrated for its gameplay and usage of true colour graphics. It was the second highest-grossing arcade game of 19 in Japan, and the second highest-grossing arcade game of 1980 in the United States, where it became one of the best-selling arcade games of all time with 50,000 arcade units sold by 1982. Galaxian was Namco's first major arcade video game hit. Galaxian is one of the first video games to feature RGB colour graphics, and the first ever to use a tile-based hardware system, which was capable of animated multi-colour sprites as well as scrolling, though the latter was limited to the starfield background while the game itself remained a fixed shooter. Gameplay involves destroying each formation of aliens, who dive down towards the player in an attempt to hit them.
The player assumes control of the Galaxip starfighter in its mission to protect Earth from waves of aliens. Galaxian is a 1979 fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco and was Namco’s answer to Space Invaders
