I am 49 and I played Galaga when it was NEW in the arcade. I love this game, so much so that I now have my own real Galaga with a (repro) Wargames Sweepstakes topper. I play it all the time and I am pretty good. However this level of game play I could never ever hope to achieve. It was a pleasure to watch you reach stages that I never will see in my lifetime. Incredible!
Thanks so much! Don't cut yourself short, I think this is a run anyone can approach. Getting to a million send impossible at first, but the difficulty caps at Stage 21. If you can consistently beat the the patterns at max speed, growth is exponential. Then it's just optimizing and honestly that's not scary, either. Putting it all together in one speedrun is just a matter of time.
You CAN see all the levels !!! Look up the cheat of the blue bee. I used to play Galaga all the time. Used to flip the game to stage zero. Could have Never done that without the cheat where after stage 2. I think it is nothing fires at you for the rest of the game. Seriously man, check this out..... m 57 now and its been probably 35 years since Ive played this game. Actually look up no firing cheat
Congrats! I was going to set the bar with a mediocre 33:39, until I saw your new PB. Time to push for a sub 31 sec game. NO Deaths and NO non-perfect CS's, otherwise it's game over. I had reaches almost 800k before my game started to fall apart. 1 death and I think 3 non-perfects, got me the 33:39 time.
looks good to me😉 I was very very strong at Defender, I like to watch your game. I never played that well. I’m a right & left guy. Not up and down😂 Very good!
This game was in the local early house pub. I remember going there on Saturday mornings and playing this on a table top machine using coins that I used to be given by all the older, heavy drinking farmers in for their mornin half pint ofGuinness and whisky. Great times and memories
What's funny is how terrible the first 8 splits were. But I had the points so I decided to keep playing, figuring even a no death/no missed CS would at least be PB. Then I hit a pace
Great question and observation! So once the "coupling" animation starts, you have no hitbox and bullets will go right through you. It has to be during the point where the game actually takes control of your ship, though, if you can still move you'll get hit while your ship is spinning through the air. It's tricky getting the fastest coupling as normally your ship will just spin in the air for a couple seconds but if you start near the middle of the screen, then cross the middle and the floating ship, it will immediately start the coupling animation instead of waiting for bullets to clear the screen. This saves time and allows said bullets to pass through your ship.
On about half of the standard stages, the second alien entry has a group of red aliens on the right side and a group of green ones on the left. I noticed you always go over to the right side in those cases. Is it more efficient that way?
That's Wave 1. So basically there are 3 stage patterns that repeat over and over, with a Challenge Stage at the end of each. So it goes Wave 1, 2, 3, Challenge stage, repeat after Stage 3. The patterns, in general, can be summed up as "splits," "stacks," and "lines." Wave 1, yeah, you choose which side you want to shoot. I start on the right because (a) bullets come from the right here, so dodging is easy (b) you can kill the greens as the stage progresses, and they pose no threat except to time cleaning them up. And (c) its just incredibly consistent. There are madlads who have patterns that start left and clean up the greens and use that extra time cleaning everything else up. I'd say mine is the easy, dependable way. It's hard to tell which is factually best at this time, this run is very non optimal and going the distance with no major mistakes after a good start is pretty much the game at this point. If we go sub-31 we might see some crazy strats to try to optimize each wave.
@footofgod This is exactly the kind of explanation I was hoping for -- very informative! Thank you! My theory was simply that you could get more points without sacrificing time shooting the greens as they came in on Wave 1, since they're 400 per when flying in vs. 150 per in formation (I think that's right?) and it should take more or less the same amount of time as shooting the reds. But, obviously, I'm no expert in any sense of the term and I figured there were likely trade-offs that made it make more sense to do it the way you did -- as your explanation shows.
What type of controller are you using? Well thats just amazing. Ive never even seen the game past around level 22 and it wasnt ME that got there. I average around level 17. If you had done this at an arcade in the 80s everyone would've treated you like a god and bought you beer and pizza!! And your initials wouldve been the high score FOREVER 🎉
Just a cheap USB arcade box I got on AliExpress, you can see it in any of my other videos with handcam (a lot of the Micro31 videos). You're close! The difficult maxes out around Stage 22. If you can adjust to that last bump, you can focus on consistency and stamina and your scores will balloon. Hah, some people are impressed but most people are just mad they won't be able to play Galaga for a long time! Unfortunately, Galaga tops out the high score screen at 999,990 without a special chip. So if you get 10,000,010.... it just thinks you got 10 pts on the High Score screen and won't even try to save it. Best to play on Player 2 and take a picture of the score at the end
I knew some very good players who took turns playing. Sometimes one of them would go out to lunch, come back and continue playing. I was never very good at any game, I would spend tons of coins in my eagerness to know the end of the game.
@@rudolphhohnenberg2809 I'm literally only good at this game for arcade games, only passable at a couple others, so I feel that! I have friends who have cleared dozens of different games on a single credit. Very envious. But I went from 200-300k to Killscreen in under a year! There's hope for everyone, if not for this game, for some game or something to reach mastery
Lots. Probably too many for this comment, going to make some tutorial content some day. Sounds like you're getting caught right at the max difficulty point. It doesn't get more difficult after that. You need to get to where you're never dying at fly-in. There's really only 3 stages that repeat between challenge stages, made of 5 fly-in patterns. Within these, bugs always shoot and dive in a predictable manner. Move from center-left or center-right to the center (you can start deep left or right on some but don't get caught there and don't get pushed in there), further if bugs are still diving, depending on the pattern. Then you just need to get a setup where you're clearing one side. You can clean up a lot if everything's heavy to one side. Once bugs come from the left and right, it's pretty much a life down without perfect movement. So the goal is to always get a setup where you're in minimal danger. Then just get more consistent. Then you can go potentially forever, just up to stamina. Then it's a matter of if you want to work on speed, stamina, or point pressing for where you go from there.
@@footofgod Usually I can survive fly in because I've gotten a good idea of how they move there, it's after they build up and start diving that can get me sometimes if I haven't cleared the board enough. Or I misjudge a bullet and it aims a bit further than I was expecting causing me to clip off a ship. The other issue I have is when a ship transforms and the other ships all go into turbo mode. I'll definitely take what you said in mind and work on getting a side clear.
Honestly, just play on MAME and get wherever kind of setup you prefer. I prefer buttons with a light touch and cocktail-style setup. Almost all of my scores are on a cocktail cab I made with an old computer running MAME, a fight stick, and an end table fashioned like a cocktail cabinet
Several simple patterns. Patterns of the levels (its really just the same 3 stages and a Challenge Stage over and over), patterns to when bugs come out, patterns to when they shoot. You can manipulate each little thing.
@@scottturnick7883 most people make the same, correctable, trainable mistakes over and over again until they accidentally train in better patterns or don't and stall out. Once you break out of that prison, the sky's the limit.
Why did you kill off all your lives you had and asome run going I almost cryied you are amazing at this game wow wow wow the highest I got was level 20 that how long I lasted with double fire power
Thanks! Honestly, a million points without a death is just nothing too special to feel like I must play. And a full game could go on for 6+ hours. My 7.5 million game was near there and I started with a first death over 3 million. Doing full marathon runs takes a lot of prepping, its almost more prep than playing at that point. I only prepared to play for a couple hours, short intense games. And this wasn't my first attempt. It would have most likely been a big waste of time unless I wanted to try for the Killscreen speedrun, but I was also just over the moon to get this time and not in the state of mind to keep playing.
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Everyone should definitely also check out Sintec's CS8 World Record - ruclips.net/video/bfIDCAuEdTg/видео.html
I am 49 and I played Galaga when it was NEW in the arcade. I love this game, so much so that I now have my own real Galaga with a (repro) Wargames Sweepstakes topper. I play it all the time and I am pretty good. However this level of game play I could never ever hope to achieve. It was a pleasure to watch you reach stages that I never will see in my lifetime. Incredible!
Thanks so much! Don't cut yourself short, I think this is a run anyone can approach. Getting to a million send impossible at first, but the difficulty caps at Stage 21. If you can consistently beat the the patterns at max speed, growth is exponential. Then it's just optimizing and honestly that's not scary, either. Putting it all together in one speedrun is just a matter of time.
@@footofgod good job coaching. Although time of birth between conversation participants is likely widely different. They'll get it if they want to.
@@footofgod actually nevermind you probably saved game state in mame
You CAN see all the levels !!! Look up the cheat of the blue bee. I used to play Galaga all the time. Used to flip the game to stage zero. Could have Never done that without the cheat where after stage 2. I think it is nothing fires at you for the rest of the game. Seriously man, check this out..... m 57 now and its been probably 35 years since Ive played this game. Actually look up no firing cheat
Congrats! I was going to set the bar with a mediocre 33:39, until I saw your new PB. Time to push for a sub 31 sec game. NO Deaths and NO non-perfect CS's, otherwise it's game over. I had reaches almost 800k before my game started to fall apart. 1 death and I think 3 non-perfects, got me the 33:39 time.
Impressing.
Wow! Very well played game, I’ve been around as long as this game. You are the best player I’ve seen💪
Thank you, but it is an ex-World Record now, so that's debatable 😅
looks good to me😉 I was very very strong at Defender, I like to watch your game. I never played that well. I’m a right & left guy. Not up and down😂
Very good!
Another infinity stone for your Gala-gauntlet
That was astonishing. Well done.
Next level. Amazing work, brother.
This is about right. 30-35min to a million.
I didn't know you could get that many spare ships!!!
It stops when your score rolls, which adds up to 15 extras, 18 total on standard settings
Unless you're this guy you probably can't lol
This game was in the local early house pub. I remember going there on Saturday mornings and playing this on a table top machine using coins that I used to be given by all the older, heavy drinking farmers in for their mornin half pint ofGuinness and whisky. Great times and memories
Congratulation for this Amazing World Record ! 😸😸🐙🐙🦑🦑🐋🐋
Hey thanks! There's so much room to improve, too. Sub 31 used to seem impossible but now I'm sure it can be done
@@footofgod 31 subs!
It’s so CLEAN!
@@Breathtaker5000 could be cleaner. Need to get the record back!
Well played!
Thanks! Now I got to get it back
31:57 Exploding Ship
You’re supposed to play as player 2 so we see the full score.
@@tren380 you'll see I do that for all my score runs. This isn't a score run. When it rolls, you've reached a million and can stop.
That man is playing galga.. tony stark
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What's funny is how terrible the first 8 splits were. But I had the points so I decided to keep playing, figuring even a no death/no missed CS would at least be PB. Then I hit a pace
i’m curious of how u didn’t lose a man at 1:06 lol ?
Great question and observation! So once the "coupling" animation starts, you have no hitbox and bullets will go right through you. It has to be during the point where the game actually takes control of your ship, though, if you can still move you'll get hit while your ship is spinning through the air. It's tricky getting the fastest coupling as normally your ship will just spin in the air for a couple seconds but if you start near the middle of the screen, then cross the middle and the floating ship, it will immediately start the coupling animation instead of waiting for bullets to clear the screen. This saves time and allows said bullets to pass through your ship.
@@footofgod sweeeeetttt that’s wild bro!
@@TW1ne1 there's not many saves that aren't straight execution and pattern knowledge, but this one's pretty key especially in the early segment runs!
On about half of the standard stages, the second alien entry has a group of red aliens on the right side and a group of green ones on the left. I noticed you always go over to the right side in those cases. Is it more efficient that way?
That's Wave 1. So basically there are 3 stage patterns that repeat over and over, with a Challenge Stage at the end of each. So it goes Wave 1, 2, 3, Challenge stage, repeat after Stage 3. The patterns, in general, can be summed up as "splits," "stacks," and "lines." Wave 1, yeah, you choose which side you want to shoot. I start on the right because (a) bullets come from the right here, so dodging is easy (b) you can kill the greens as the stage progresses, and they pose no threat except to time cleaning them up. And (c) its just incredibly consistent. There are madlads who have patterns that start left and clean up the greens and use that extra time cleaning everything else up. I'd say mine is the easy, dependable way. It's hard to tell which is factually best at this time, this run is very non optimal and going the distance with no major mistakes after a good start is pretty much the game at this point. If we go sub-31 we might see some crazy strats to try to optimize each wave.
@footofgod This is exactly the kind of explanation I was hoping for -- very informative! Thank you!
My theory was simply that you could get more points without sacrificing time shooting the greens as they came in on Wave 1, since they're 400 per when flying in vs. 150 per in formation (I think that's right?) and it should take more or less the same amount of time as shooting the reds. But, obviously, I'm no expert in any sense of the term and I figured there were likely trade-offs that made it make more sense to do it the way you did -- as your explanation shows.
What type of controller are you using?
Well thats just amazing. Ive never even seen the game past around level 22 and it wasnt ME that got there. I average around level 17. If you had done this at an arcade in the 80s everyone would've treated you like a god and bought you beer and pizza!! And your initials wouldve been the high score FOREVER 🎉
Just a cheap USB arcade box I got on AliExpress, you can see it in any of my other videos with handcam (a lot of the Micro31 videos). You're close! The difficult maxes out around Stage 22. If you can adjust to that last bump, you can focus on consistency and stamina and your scores will balloon.
Hah, some people are impressed but most people are just mad they won't be able to play Galaga for a long time! Unfortunately, Galaga tops out the high score screen at 999,990 without a special chip. So if you get 10,000,010.... it just thinks you got 10 pts on the High Score screen and won't even try to save it. Best to play on Player 2 and take a picture of the score at the end
@@footofgod awesome 😎. Will check out the other videos. Thanks for the encouragement too!
Stage 6 was the furthest I’ve got in Galaga
We all start somewhere!
Stage 12 for me
Stage 20 for me
Stage 25 for me
Culte !!! Excellent !
Not quite a million; you owe us about 90 more points. Lol
High score counter can't handle it. You'll notice the Player 1 score rolled over to 000550. So really you guys owe me 550 pts.
I knew some very good players who took turns playing. Sometimes one of them would go out to lunch, come back and continue playing. I was never very good at any game, I would spend tons of coins in my eagerness to know the end of the game.
@@rudolphhohnenberg2809 I'm literally only good at this game for arcade games, only passable at a couple others, so I feel that! I have friends who have cleared dozens of different games on a single credit. Very envious. But I went from 200-300k to Killscreen in under a year! There's hope for everyone, if not for this game, for some game or something to reach mastery
Do you have any tips for someone trying to reach 1 million normally? Currently my best is 309k.
Lots. Probably too many for this comment, going to make some tutorial content some day. Sounds like you're getting caught right at the max difficulty point. It doesn't get more difficult after that. You need to get to where you're never dying at fly-in. There's really only 3 stages that repeat between challenge stages, made of 5 fly-in patterns. Within these, bugs always shoot and dive in a predictable manner. Move from center-left or center-right to the center (you can start deep left or right on some but don't get caught there and don't get pushed in there), further if bugs are still diving, depending on the pattern. Then you just need to get a setup where you're clearing one side. You can clean up a lot if everything's heavy to one side. Once bugs come from the left and right, it's pretty much a life down without perfect movement. So the goal is to always get a setup where you're in minimal danger. Then just get more consistent. Then you can go potentially forever, just up to stamina. Then it's a matter of if you want to work on speed, stamina, or point pressing for where you go from there.
@@footofgod Usually I can survive fly in because I've gotten a good idea of how they move there, it's after they build up and start diving that can get me sometimes if I haven't cleared the board enough. Or I misjudge a bullet and it aims a bit further than I was expecting causing me to clip off a ship. The other issue I have is when a ship transforms and the other ships all go into turbo mode.
I'll definitely take what you said in mind and work on getting a side clear.
Other than the stand up, what’s the best platform to play on?
Honestly, just play on MAME and get wherever kind of setup you prefer. I prefer buttons with a light touch and cocktail-style setup. Almost all of my scores are on a cocktail cab I made with an old computer running MAME, a fight stick, and an end table fashioned like a cocktail cabinet
Always run a double ship on first stage. Then make sure to get 20k every 3.5 rounds to stay on pace.
Is there a pattern to this game? Like once you figure it out it makes it easy?
Several simple patterns. Patterns of the levels (its really just the same 3 stages and a Challenge Stage over and over), patterns to when bugs come out, patterns to when they shoot. You can manipulate each little thing.
@@footofgod
I played this game growing up and never got past maybe 3-400,000. You're probably smarter than the avg bear I assume
@@scottturnick7883 most people make the same, correctable, trainable mistakes over and over again until they accidentally train in better patterns or don't and stall out. Once you break out of that prison, the sky's the limit.
1:24 dj ruboy ft pastis and buenri - start
I can’t even make it to stage 5
It looks so easy when you do it
Why did you kill off all your lives you had and asome run going I almost cryied you are amazing at this game wow wow wow the highest I got was level 20 that how long I lasted with double fire power
Thanks! Honestly, a million points without a death is just nothing too special to feel like I must play. And a full game could go on for 6+ hours. My 7.5 million game was near there and I started with a first death over 3 million. Doing full marathon runs takes a lot of prepping, its almost more prep than playing at that point. I only prepared to play for a couple hours, short intense games. And this wasn't my first attempt. It would have most likely been a big waste of time unless I wanted to try for the Killscreen speedrun, but I was also just over the moon to get this time and not in the state of mind to keep playing.
Well you did and asome job this such a fun game I have the 1up acarde of this game i play the hell out of it it’s so addicting
stage 74 damnn
Easy