#Galaga free official series#

The captive fighter becomes an enemy, turns red, and likewise, it can be shot and destroyed. If successful, the fighter joins the enemy formation as a satellite to the boss Galaga, which captured it. While the player is in control of just one fighter, a 'boss' Galaga, (which takes two hits to kill, the first hit will turn it purple) will periodically attempt to capture the fighter using a tractor beam.

Another feature in the game is for enemies to randomly transform and organize into a certain formation, which awards the player bonus points if they manage to successfully destroy itĪnother gameplay feature new is the ability for enemies to capture the player's fighter. When you destroy a group of enemies, you are awarded 1500 points.These stages award a 10K-point bonus if the player manages to destroy every enemy, but otherwise 100 bonus points for every enemy destroyed.

#Galaga free official series#

Statistic at the end of the game, and a bonus 'Challenging Stage' that occurs every few stages, in which a series of enemies fly onto and off the screen in set patterns without firing at the player's ship or trying to crash into it. The game ends when the player's last fighter is lost by colliding with an enemy, In later stages, some enemies even break from an entering group in a frantic attempt to crash into the player.

Enemies swarm in groups in a formation near the top of the screen, and then begin flying down toward the player, firing bullets at and attempting to crash into them. The player controls a starfighter that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield. Galaga, is to score as many points as possible by destroying insect-like enemies.