mikel@codas.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) (11/01/85)
> OK, how do you get the Galaga aliens to stop shooting at you until wave 256? > > --Evan Marcus Gosh, here we go: On the first or second screenfull of aliens, kill all of them, except the two blue ones in the first collumn, at the bottom of the screen, it is like this, if I can remember: . . Y X X X X X... Y X X X X X... B X X X X X... B X X X X X... The 'Y' are the yellow ones (or whatever colour they are) and the 'B' are the blue ones. The trick is to have just the two blue ones circulate, and watch their firing patterns. What you are looking for is a cycle when neither of the two aliens fire any missles. On the third such cycle, you must shoot both of them before they escape through the bottom of the screen. It may take as long as ten minutes of avoiding missles before you get the third cycle. From now on, they shouldn't fire at you. And it's a deadly sin to get killed! :-) The challenging stages repeat after 7 (i beleive that's right, could be 8), and when you make it to the 255th level, you should have in excess of 4*10^5 points. Beware that if you do this on a two player game, it is very unpredictable, the second player will be fired at, and sometimes the first start being fired upon again. One more thing, the two times I stuck around long enough to get to level 255 (about three hours, that's $0.25 worth all right!), when I cleard it, the game and hung itself. It had to be reset to be playable again, and you don't get on the score charts. -- Mikel Manitius @ AT&T-IS Altamonte Springs, FL ...{ihnp4|akguc|attmail|indra!koura}!codas!mikel