jprice@psueea.uucp (James Price) (07/14/90)
Does anyone remember how to turn off the alien's firing power
in Galaxian? Something about shooting different coloured aliens
in a pattern....If anyone remember please post it or mail me.
Thanks,
James Price
jprice@jove.cc.pdx.eduOrdania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) (07/15/90)
To temporarily turn off the aliens firing you have to wait for a leader to come down at you. When it does, shoot & kill it to stop the firing for 3-6 seconds. Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com
art@norby.acns.nwu.edu (Art Miller) (07/16/90)
In article <31715@cup.portal.com> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) writes: > > To temporarily turn off the aliens firing you have to wait for a leader >to come down at you. When it does, shoot & kill it to stop the firing for >3-6 seconds. The original poster may have wanted to know how to turn off the aliens' firepower *completely* (for good). I know it's possible in the coin-op version of Galaxian, but to my knowledge you can't to it on the home version. Arthur Miller, Student Consultant | here's one: Northwestern University | EMACS -- Eight Megabytes And art@norby.acns.nwu.edu | Constantly Swapping ========================================================================
art@norby.acns.nwu.edu (Art Miller) (07/18/90)
In article <3693@qip.UUCP> bobm@qip.UUCP (Bob Maccione) writes: >In article <9768@accuvax.nwu.edu> art@norby.acns.nwu.edu (Art Miller) writes: >}In article <31715@cup.portal.com> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com >} >}The original poster may have wanted to know how to turn off the aliens' >}firepower *completely* (for good). I know it's possible in the coin-op >}version of Galaxian, but to my knowledge you can't to it on the home >}version. >} > >hey, how do you do that!?!? Hmmm....that's a good question... Let's see what I can remember. It goes something like this: Shoot all the aliens except for one of the two little guys on the far right (maybe the left instead...) Anyhow, don't shoot him--instead, wait until he quits firing at you for several passes, then shoot him. When the next board comes up, none of the aliens will shoot at you for the rest of the game (or maybe it's until you lose a ship...) Or maybe all this cheese is for *Galaga*, not Galaxian... Hey, I make no claims as to the accuracy of this information..heh, heh.. But, really, this *does* work--I even had the patience to to it once (You have to wait for like 10-15 min. before the little bugger quits firing...) Arthur Miller, Student Consultant | Northwestern University | Neitzche: "God is dead." art@norby.acns.nwu.edu | God: Neitzche is dead. ;-) ========================================================================
scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) (07/18/90)
>It goes something like this: Shoot all the aliens except for one of the >two little guys on the far right (maybe the left instead...) >Anyhow, don't shoot him--instead, wait until he quits firing at you for >several passes, then shoot him. When the next board comes up, none of >the aliens will shoot at you for the rest of the game (or maybe it's >until you lose a ship...) Or maybe all this cheese is for *Galaga*, >not Galaxian... > >Hey, I make no claims as to the accuracy of this information..heh, heh.. >But, really, this *does* work--I even had the patience to to it once >(You have to wait for like 10-15 min. before the little bugger quits >firing...) For those out there who only take one quarter into an arcade.... Galaga, not galaxian. This bug was reported to be fixed in 1982+ machinesm, although it has always worked for me.... :) The idea/concept is to try to ``flip'' or ``roll'' a register/counter. The register is the shot register... (Now from memory, since I haven't played this game seriously for several years...) This trick should be done with your first ship... and if you play a two player game and your opponent/partner really wants to wait, if the first person does it... BOTH games will be played with the aliens NOT firing! (It's amazing what you do in a dorm when you're bored!) (Oh, and we usually had chairs in front of the video games.... ) Basically, with your first ship on the first wave, try NOT to shoot any of the YELLOW ships until they are in formation. The reason is that you want to leave TWO of the LEFT-MOST (that's lower left) YELLOW ships. After you have left the correct two ships, you can go sit near the right side (Approx 1.5 screen inches) and MOST of their shots will miss you. What you have to watch out for is tat every once and a while a ship will go OFF of LEFT side of the sreen and you will HEAR that a shot was fired.... well, that shot MAY come on the RIGHT side of the screen and it WILL hit you if you don't move. Ok, with two ships going at you... the wait time for this scheme has been reduced from the one ship time of approximately 15 minutes to approximately 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Every once and a while a ship will make the noise that is has fired, but you will not see a shot... For fun you can study the patterns... This is what happens, usually: (If you kept track of which was the FIRST ship to do its run attack) The first ship will go OFF the left side of the screen and you will HEAR the normal shot noise.... but, no shot will be fired. Then, then second ship will make the NOISE that it has fired, but there will ALSO not be a shot. That is your signal. If you shoot both of these ships before they leave the bottom of the screen, then for the rest of the game, the aliens shold not shoot! No, go find a game that gives you an extra guy at every 70k or so... and rack'em up! I think the most extra ships I have ever seen is like 15... and I believe I have made it to wave 272..... or so. HINTS: If you shot these ships when only one or two shots were fired (after waiting approx > 5 minutes) then for the rest of the game the ships will only be able to fire ONE or TWO (depending on how many shots were fired when you killed the ships).... but even with one shot the game gets difficult. This is a good thing to do after you have played with them NOT shooting for a game or two. My score used to be about 50k-120k average WITH them shooting... After I played for like 3 hours straight..... with them NOT shooting... and then I played a normal game, I could get around 170k and up. Any questions?
arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) (07/18/90)
In article <9837@accuvax.nwu.edu> art@norby.acns.nwu.edu (Art Miller) writes: >It goes something like this: Shoot all the aliens except for one of the >two little guys on the far right (maybe the left instead...) >Anyhow, don't shoot him--instead, wait until he quits firing at you for >several passes, then shoot him. When the next board comes up, none of >the aliens will shoot at you for the rest of the game (or maybe it's >until you lose a ship...) Or maybe all this cheese is for *Galaga*, >not Galaxian... It _is_ Galaga, not Galaxian. (And yes, I've done it too.) -- "I will not instigate revolution..." "I will not instigate revolution..." "I will not instigate revolution..." --The Simpsons Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm; INTERNET: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu)