Galaga: Destination Earth

Galaga: Destination Earth is a 2000 3D video game, an update to the popular Golden Age arcade game, Galaga. It was developed by King of the Jungle and published by Hasbro Interactive for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, and Game Boy Color.

Galaga: Destination Earth
European PlayStation cover art
Developer(s)King of the Jungle
Pipe Dream Interactive (Game Boy Color)
Publisher(s)Hasbro Interactive
SeriesGalaxian
Platform(s)Windows, PlayStation, Game Boy Color
ReleaseWindows [1]
  • NA: September 23, 2000
Game Boy Color [2]
  • NA: September 25, 2000
PlayStation [3]
  • NA: October 22, 2000
  • PAL: November 10, 2000
Genre(s)Shooter

Gameplay

Destination Earth includes nine stages, each consisting of several "waves" of alien attackers and bonus waves. Most of the stages are planetary locations, like an Ancient Egyptianish Mars, Metropolitan Earth, and Saturn. Some are non-planet astronomical objects like the moon or the sun. On the final stage, the player finds must battle on a "planetoid". The "waves" consist of three preset views denoted as ALPHA (1st person), DELTA (side scroller), and GAMMA (top view or original Galaga view).

If a tractor beam ship is destroyed, there is a chance that a cube will come out. If the player catches this cube, they will get a temporary tractor beam that can capture an enemy ship. Captured enemy ships will then act as wing-men for your fighter until destroyed by enemy fire, just as they do in Gaplus.

Reception

Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the PlayStation version of the game for Next Generation, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Despite the nostalgia factor, this seems to be aimed at the mass market, not the hardcore. As such, it's relatively simple and not that thrilling."[4]

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References
  1. Galaga: Destination Earth Release Information for PC - GameFAQs
  2. Galaga: Destination Earth Release Information for Game Boy Color - GameFAQs
  3. Galaga: Destination Earth Release Information for PlayStation - GameFAQs
  4. Lundrigan, Jeff (December 2000). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 3 no. 12. Imagine Media. p. 136.


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