04.18.09
Galaga
Call me stoked when I was doing my not-often-enough browse through the App Store look for something to download on my iPhone, when I got nothing better to do, and I came across Galaga. Previously I had been impressed with the turnout of games like Pacman, for example, but I was never really a Pacman guy back in the day, but I was definitely a Galaga guy. So when I saw Galaga Remix, I was intrigued. I have to admit though I am a perennial cheapskate though, so the $5.99 price tag took me for a bit of a loop as I am never really sure how much interest such a game will hold for me. In other words, will I play it once and then never play it again?
So I filed it away as a cool blast from the past and something I might consider in the future and went back to my browsing. This is when I got to the free applications and found Galaga Remix Lite. Now the price was right for me. I realized it was probably a very limited reproduction but that is okay I just wanted a taste of the old days. So I downloaded the Lite version and started it up. First I chose the arrow controls over the slider controls, because it seemed to make more sense, although I was a little concerned about my abilities to play Galaga on the iPhone. So as it loaded up, automatically in landscape mode, I got ready. I was hit by the music first, then the very nice graphics and I was engrossed. I was able to clear the first two levels even though one of my dogs attacked me on the second screen. That being said, the game was over, and now I had to decide what to do.
As soon as I finish writing this, I will be forking out the $5.99 as Galaga is one of those games that never gets old. The only game that might capture me more is if someone made Tempest on the iPhone, although I am really not sure how that control would work.
Check out Galaga Remix or Galaga Remix Lite.
