Galaga [Fast-Fire] - MAME - 20,518,900 (WR!)

[@AM-rq1no]

My dad would roll Galaga arcades back in the 80's on a single quarter. Even the plug in play home arcades weren't safe. I came home from school one day and he had broken the code. My sister and I keep telling him to enter Galaga tournaments or at least play a modern PC set up that has the ability to withstand his playing. This past Christmas I bought a plug in play for my daughter so that she can start playing these old classics and he played a solid 2 hour game after not playing for about 20 years. He truly is a world class player and I wish he would let us record him.

[@TheGalagaKing]

A M, that's a great story!! It's nice to hear about other talented Galaga players out there that have been "incognito" for a long time. Does your father know about the MAME emulator? If not, he should. It's the closest you can get to actually playing a dedicated arcade machine. Also, have him check out these two sites. www.galagaforum.com facebook.com/Galaga-Forum-235647040504379 It's home to some of the most talented Galaga players in the world. Your dad should become active with these sites based on what you shared with me regarding his skill level. We need more talented Galaga players like him to come out of the woodwork so-to-speak, because for decades, it was lonely sitting at the top of the world before other talented players came out and showcased their skill. After 29 years, a talented player out of California, finally broke my almost 3 decade long-standing, marathon setting world record score of 15,999,990 points (slow fire). I continue to encourage others to come out and become part of the competitive side of Galaga. It's great when you have other really good players, going against each other and it makes the game that much more interesting to play when world records are constantly changing hands.

[@AM-rq1no]

@@TheGalagaKing i told my dad about your awesome comment and it revitalized that old passion he has. He even said he would like to get into contact with you. As far as emulators, no we have no idea how all that works. Its amazing seeing my dad play again.

[@paxhumana2015]

@@AM-rq1no , but will he do tournaments, though? Twin Galaxies tends to have some of the best retro video game tournaments in the world and they also seem to be the authority in arcade games.

[@Seany-boy]

Cool story bro

[@mikloszoltan1989]

My dad would beat your dad in Galaga rollovers. (JK) LOL

[@KalebHarris-eh3gy]

Timer Complete 9 Hours, 43 Minutes, 30 seconds - 9:44:01

[@Soflaquito]

This is the most incredible Galaga skills and dominion that I've seen ever. Thanks for sharing and congratulations for all your efforts and constance to play since past century.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks a million (no pun intended) MetalStorm. I feel like I've been playing Galaga for a century! After 37 years straight, of playing Galaga, I'm *still* finding ways to improve and sharpen my gameplay. Many more videos to come. :)

[@Tyler-lr3xo]

you havent seen me

[@jacobtennyson9213]

@@TheGalagaKing .. It's about the playing patterns.

[@javisjr.6140]

When I was younger, Highest I ever gone was level 76 and had full lives but since it was at my local laundromat I had to end it there since my family just finished the laundry and just with a single quarter spent the entire time there lol while my family washed clothes! 🥳 who knows how far I could have gone! Was on fire🔥!

[@TheGalagaKing]

You should get back into it Javis. If you don't have access to an original arcade cabinet, there are other cabs like the Namco Class of '81 and Pacman Party to name a few that will allow you to play the original Galaga on. If their defaulted to "fast fire", there are joystick/button codes that will allow you to change the fire speed back to original fire. Otherwise, there's always the MAME arcade emulator. Just food for thought. :)

[@drewmcgrath2450]

Think about if you had this guys fast fire cheat?! Not the same game though with a cheat code. I never got past level 20 as a kid that I know about but loved the game.

[@MrTristinGoToons449]

Wow! Awesome Galaga King! I’ve Only Reached A Score Of 2,000,000+ Score Before, I Played It With My 1UP Arcade Game, For Some Reason, After The 1st Rack Of Stages, My Game Freeze’s, That Sucks, I Have A Desktop And Bout To Install MAME Newest Version, I’m Very Excited To See My IQ On Galaga MAME Version. Anyways, Nice Game and Keep Up The Progress.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks MrTristinTheGoAnimater449 for the kind words. I wasn't aware Galaga doesn't allow the player to continue playing past the kill screen on the 1UP Arcade cabinet. I also don't think it allows for changing the difficulty settings like that of an arcade cabinet. Otherwise, you could put the diff. settings on the hardest, which would allow you to continue playing past stage 256 as I've done in this video. Fire up MAME! You'll have the opportunity to change the settings and play past the kill screen to rack up even higher scores. Good luck!

[@MrTristinGoToons449]

​@TheGalagaKing I think I can try, I'm already trying mame and TRYING to make it to the 2nd challenging stage, but my hands are just worn out ya know, I'll try the beta rom update and get fast fire then test my skills

[@MrTristinGoToons449]

@@TheGalagaKing is there a link to get fast fire rom? because i cant get one online, its very frustrating, sorry to interrupt, but I need a link to get fast fire rom, please

[@KalebHarris-eh3gy]

MR. KING OF GALAGA - Xelnia Channel - Stephen Krogman (Winner of Galaga) - 20,518.900 Points (LONGEST SCORE!!!) (WORLD RECORD!!!) - Galaga (Midway set 1 with fast shoot hack)

[@dimwit818]

Great stuff, I've hit 7 million plus a couple of times but end up quitting with lives left because I got bored. i salute you.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks for the props! With regard to the arcade version of this same game and variance, I managed 2 scores over 10M way back when (one was just to kill time [11,999,990 with 10 men left] and the other was a game where I scored 10,000,000 while promoting my friend Walter Day's record book, than ended it with a shit load of men). I'm working on getting a loaner Ms. Pacman/Galaga Class of '81 cab for my house from a friend of mine. All I need is like a month to tackle a few records I've been wanting to get on both the original fire and fast-fire versions of Galaga and both Pacman and Ms. Pacman Turbo. I play these too. :)

[@Tyler-lr3xo]

pshhh. yea right

[@paxhumana2015]

@@TheGalagaKing , who is Walter Day and what is the name of the book that you promoted, out of curiosity?

[@FloydMaxwell]

@@paxhumana2015 You don't want to know

[@ziizinn]

My tio and dad were legends at this game. Both of their names were always there at their local arcade on this game and they were known for being good at it

[@denyswidjaja]

Galaga reminds the good happy old days back in 1984-85. Hats off to the master!

[@MichaelOfRohan]

The key definitely is immediate elimination on the vertical swing. The more you kill ot each batch, less that survive will attack at any one time. I love this game, HSalt Fish N Chips arcade. My grandpa loved taking me there.

[@RetroDubs]

I’ll admit galaga takes practice but this outstanding. True gamer skills.

[@TheRealDustinNunn]

I love Galaga! Namco makes really awesome games.

[@CartoonPhreak]

Exactly. Tekken also counts.

[@johndrake7498]

I was tired before you started when I saw it took nearly 10 hours! Well done!

[@norbertoniebres1615]

Awesome skill. I only wish I were this good. 😔

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks! Keep playing. Practice makes perfect. :) You'll find your games will increase a little with each game you play. Watch my videos and you will learn a LOT. :)

[@norbertop.niebres6320]

Great gameplay. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[@Tyler-lr3xo]

me too. jk.... i am!

[@trueanonymous3112]

you know he used the fast fire cheat code right? thats what makes him good

[@BoomGiggity]

I fully expected you to use the Galaga glitch, but you played it straight! Congrats!

[@zombiesrip9809]

He used a speed shooting cheat

[@vittoriomarano8230]

Galaga number 1.

[@seesaw1969]

wow man , awesome!! i use to play this game , but it was called Fantastic , here in Brazil , and before the 30th stage the bombs from allien went in a doble speed... i arrived at 150 stages , and nobbody breaks may record ...in the city. really was much more difficult , almost impossible stay with 2 ships...good times . thanks for shared your record....

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks! I have played that version on MAME. Very unique version to say the least!

[@sdcashman45]

Awesome, as usual. I finally found a Galaga game here...at Dave and Busters. I started off great, but lost lateral and firing ability after Stage 6. I figured I need to get my own game...hello, Amazon...

[@TheGalagaKing]

I'm still looking myself Bruce. Their not cheap, due to their popularity still 36 years later. I'm considering finding at the least, a 60-1 with Galaga in it just so I can practice on the 5-men settings variation (and other games as well) and when my game is where I want it to be, I'll make a run for the WR on these settings. In the meantime, I'll keep saving up for a dedicated machine in the event I find one locally. I have technical and restoration experience, so it wouldn't have to be in tip-top condition. It's just hard finding an original dedicated machine in general.

[@bigblueassbaby9074]

Bruce Savoy cabinets have remarkably inflated prices on amazon. search around on craigslist or ebay. a lot of namco cabs from the late 70's and early 80's can be converted to galaga as well.

[@sdcashman45]

@@bigblueassbaby9074 I found a classic game arcade cocktail table with 2 matching chairs for $1,000 OBO. Turns out it's in the same small city as me....still pondering....

[@Slick_Nick7567]

I love studying other people's techniques when it comes to patterns I personally have a high score of 2.79 million and I'm really close to hitting the killscreen such an amazing game from this person!

[@fambroccoli6440]

Wow 20 million, now that's breathtaking.

[@josefernandomartinez-zarra87]

4:19:34 My highest ever. ( You beat me ! ) This is EPIC, Master of Galaga !!!!!!

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks a lot! 9.1M is a very good score as well. You're thisclose to breaking into an "8 digit" score! 10M is right around the corner.

[@josefernandomartinez-zarra87]

Thanks so much, I personally think that you should call yourself “The Galaga God”

[@TheGalagaKing]

Would you believe that name has already been taken?! Another really good Galaga player I know personally, has the name and is also the administrator of both official websites. The Galaga Forum (www.galagaforum.com) and their Facebook page (facebook.com/Galaga-Forum-235647040504379/).

[@hildyejones4600]

1,437 Stages, 360 Challenging Stages, 56 Perfect Challenging Stages.

[@FX.Tsubasa]

It's so great! You are perfect player !!

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks for the kind words. It took a lot of hard work to get to this point. I guess anyone would get good at something if they've been doing it for almost 40 years. Lol. 🙂

[@jefffisher598]

There's a cab here in LA(Eighty Two bar arcade) with a high score of 21 million+. I'm barely able to reach a score of 2,6xx,xxx. At 90 minutes I was already getting tired and bored. It's amazing that you can grind through and play all those hours. Cheers!

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hi Jeff. Yes, you're correct. The 21m is from a player who goes there quiet often. I know him personally and he says I actually inspired him to reach that pinnacle because of my MAME score of 20,518,900. Another player whom I also know who goes there (Steve) is also very good and has the score that Armando beat when he got that 21M. Between the 3 of us, one will eventually reach 25M or even 30M if we can hold out that long. :) I recently scored 8.6M on my first man, but had to leave because I had to be somewhere else and couldn't finish my game. I also had recording issues that prevented me from continuing, so a 25M or 30M game is definitely doable.

[@shawbros]

At an arcade I used to go to when I was a kid, there was a guy that was an expert at Star Castle. He would go to the arcade prepared with kneeling pad in hand, and enter the arcade as soon as they opened in the morning. He would go straight to the Star Castle game, put one quarter in, and play on that same quarter while kneeling, until the arcade closed at night about 12 hours later.

[@mokacat1595]

I want a Galaga 40th Silver Coin, but I won't buy one until I get 1 million, thanks for the video... awesome reaction time and skills!

[@ryanrodgers9704]

9:44:14 best music in Galaga

[@TheGalagaKing]

Lets you know you made it to the elite, top 5 high scorers. Even better when you've made it to the top spot. 🙂

[@richardmarsh2317]

So the shots fired and number of hits roll over at 100,000. This is something I did not realize until now. Awesome stuff! It took me six viewings to watch the whole thing.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Yea, when I finished that game, I didn't realize it had rolled over too until I noticed how low the percentage was (35%). I knew this was impossible unless it rolled the shots fired and # of hits over. Thanks for watching the whole thing. Did you notice the long stretch I had of close to 7M on a single dual ship (6.8M)? I'm amazed that I was able to finally beat that personal record of mine when I achieved my 10M on 5-men only settings last June. I reached almost 7.3M on 1 dual ship during that game. My goal is to eventually reach 10M on 1 dual ship without dying. I think it's possible. Just have to stay really focused. :)

[@richardmarsh2317]

Stephen Krogman - I noticed that stretch and I also noticed no deaths on the fourth "rack". :) I definitely think 10M without dying is possible! I also think 21M on five-ships-only is possible.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Anything's possible. Now that it's been confirmed that my friend is willing to lend me his Class of 1981 for about a month. He could deliver it to me as soon as this Sunday. :)

[@notyetskeletal4809]

Its insane playing for so long. J loved it in the 80s and played a dsble top machine again in 2005. On coffee I managed to give myself RSI. So I won't play it again. The injury came back after a few years. I just have to manage it. Can't get carried away with addictions.

[@RassaEsplendido78]

Congratulations ! This is Amazing !!

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks!

[@4DeFord]

Ah the memories... of time lost and other cool stuff I could have bought from all those coins... Just kidding and my uncle owned the arcade so I got lots of free 'ticks' from my nephew :) Still one of my all time favorite games. My highest ever used to be 480.000 in that arcade. I have it on Steam now but it's just not the same and I have hard time getting past 200k Anyway, amazing play and record man!

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks a million (no pun intended) 😄

[@hosi2007]

9:44:13ハイスコア

[@pac-green6030]

I scored 3,374,000 on January of this year. But sadly, the settings was at Rank C. It was on the Namco Reuinion 81 Machine that I played on.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Great score! The difficulty settings are a bit different than that of the original Galaga game. With the original, the difficulty settings to choose from are: Easy, Medium, Hard, & HARDEST (i.e. Rank A, B, C, D) where "HARDEST (i.e. Rank "D") is the only difficulty setting you can play on that will allow you to continue past the inevitable kill-screen after completion of stage 255. Whereas, on the Class of '81 and Pacman Anniversary cabinets, the following difficulties are present: Easy, Normal, HARD, Hardest (i.e. Rank A, B, C, D) where "HARD" (i.e. Rank "C") is the only difficulty setting to play on that will allow the player to also continue past the kill-screen on this particular version of Galaga. I don't know why it changed with this version compared to the original dedicated cabinet, but after testing the theory (playing on each difficulty setting) my conclusion was that on the NORMAL setting, you CAN continue playing past stage 255. So being that you did in fact play it on Rank "C" which is actually "HARD", according to my description above, the game would in fact reset or freeze up on you which it did. Try replaying it on "NORMAL" setting, providing you can get staff or the operator of the machine to change the internal setting up one difficulty to the "NORMAL" setting and you should be good to go. Btw, how many men did you have left over when the game ended?

[@pac-green6030]

I only lost like 3 or 4 men. And I still had 15 or 14 men left after I got to the kill screen.

[@marioisawesome8218]

YEAAAHHH PLAYER ONE LETS GOOOO!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOO PLAYER OOOONNNNEEEE OHHH YEEEAAAAHHHH

[@wlocek369]

clear 5x levels 1-127, 4x levels 128-255 and 4x level 0 = 1181 levels !!

[@pseudonym3690]

At 5:11:58 the level counter wraps back to zero on level 256. Really cool and great run :)

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hi pseudonym3690. You're absolutely right. In fact, this was the third roll over of stage 256, with 2 more to follow. 🙂

[@pseudonym3690]

​@@TheGalagaKing Thanks for the heads up! I actually realized that while watching on. Absolutely amazing that you cleared more than a thousand levels. Absolutely stunning gameplay! How did you manage without toilet breaks? I suppose you paused MAME to make sure your bladder didn't explode ;)

[@SALESPRODUCTIONS]

Ah nostalgia. My Youth. When there were actually arcades and businesses that had physical arcade games for a quarter. ( I am 54 ) Bowling Alley within a 1/2 mile walk. Get $ 5 from my Mom - or paper route collecting - mowing a lawn - and played the following to expert level : Various Pinball Space Invaders Missile Command Defender Donkey Kong Pac Man Tempest Crazy Climber --- And my all time favorite - of which I would literally play for hours on a single quarter : Robotron : 2084 They would be closing the place and I would have to stop playing sometimes etc . . Other times I would have so many extra lives - ( it would go off the screen with no actual count ) I would go down to the snack bar and have them fix me a lunch - and take it back to the machine and keep playing and just let guys die while eating. SO FUN.

[@carijd11]

Long live the king

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks bro!

[@kirstenhutt2687]

amazing job dude I can't even get to stage 20!

[@hildyejones4600]

#scoringfromgalaga

[@lucascrespi1969]

J'adore ces jeux là des années 80.

[@mariojosecaracasgonzalez7874]

Just WOW, you are awesome

[@teacfan1080]

Nice that the player 2 score shows millions. After all that play, the game only gives you credit for a 518,000 high score!

[@danielt2k8]

What a way to spend a quarter BTW Q: Have you tried beating this record, trying to get a higher score?

[@CleoCat75]

yep, i used to play with the no-shooting hack and got about 3-million back in the day. fun stuff

[@zsewqthewolf1194]

this was the very game that got me into gaming when i was super little when i was at the laundromat while my mom clean our clothes back in the day, there was also ms Pacman next to it (always seen those two together everywhere for whatever reason) when i used to go to the arcade all the time 1$ only got me 20 mins then to an hour then two then tree to a ponit where if i wanted to make one coin last the longest this game was the go-to for me to make sure it last

[@TheGalagaKing]

I agree. During the year, '80-'81, I had gotten so good on lots of games like Galaga, Defender, Joust, Gyruss & Stargate to name a few, that a dollar would literally last me ALL day which would drive the arcade owner absolutely crazy because there was no way he was going to make any money off of me and he knew it. 😂

[@zsewqthewolf1194]

@@TheGalagaKing anit that the truth, i miss them to this day in the usa. Arcade was the home to the many who in that time was seen as the outcast, sure people smoke in them and drink a lot but that part of what give the feel of an arcade if you ask me. my mom and dad finlly got me a video game system to stop me from wasting money at the arcade. but sadly it didn't it just got me looking in the sofa still for that 25 cents to play games

[@CrimsonHelldrake]

*OH YES!? You actually expect me to believe you got 20 MILLION points in GALAGA!?*

[@TheDirge69]

In the 80’s I remember clocking the original tabletop version without using the hack, took a few hours, then Gaplus came along...

[@TheGalagaKing]

Ironically enough, I never got good at Gaplus, although it was a fun game to play. I would have to say '82 was around the time of my first rollover. I playing it damn near every day when it came out in 9/81. Within a few months, I hit my goal. 🙂

[@user-rr4nj7gl2n]

That was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks!! More uploads to come. :)

[@hildyejones4600]

#thegalagaking #galagascoring

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

That man is playing Galaga. He thought we wouldn't notice. But we did. And that man is Stephen Krogman

[@TheGalagaKing]

What's up Mr. Josh?! Yes, you're correct. Hard to believe I did this 23 years ago already! Time sure flies when your having fun playing Galaga. 😆At some point, I want to revisit this version and go for 10M on 1 dual ship. Made it to around 8.5M, but my phone died and I couldn't record anymore of my gameplay so I just ended my game. That was over 4 years ago while at D&B in Orlando.

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

@@TheGalagaKing Long time no see Stephen! And yeah, that's an incredible score that you got there! Oh and you're gonna love this. I got an Arcade1Up Galaga for Christmas!

[@TheGalagaKing]

@@xxdeadchannelxx No sh!t! Nice! Thought about getting the Defender one. I'm a big fan of Williams classics. It would be either the Defender or the Ms. Pacman 40th Collection Gaming Table because it has 12 games, including Galaga '88.

[@xxdeadchannelxx]

@@TheGalagaKing Dude, I would love to see you play Galaga '88 again. In fact, I hold the world record on the TurboGrafx 16 version. I have the run uploaded onto my channel here. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqvRdZ2NeJiof7c

[@julievue8260]

You are the galaga king 👑

[@hanoc101]

I used to roll this game over to where it would start back at the beginning. The problem is that if you did that your name would not appear as the top score. So, I would deliberately crash my ship at some point to preserve the top score.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hi hanoc101. I too like to put up a perfect score in order to lock in a top spot on the high score table without rolling it over. I like doing this every time I run into a Galaga on location. I've been doing this for decades. In fact, I captured a few games I played where I was entering my initials in the score table on various Galaga machines. All videos can be found on my YT page. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5LNm6CEaKuFnbM Class of '81 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpnPfaWsgtaWoqM Pacman's Arcade Party kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZrRdHh4i9SSbJY Original Cab kzbin.info/www/bejne/pp_ClppolMpqpJo Class of '81

[@donaldandersonjr2386]

Wow!!! This is amazing!!!

[@lmnop291]

How do I play this game like where can I find it

[@TheGalagaKing]

It's available across a multitude of platform emulators (i. e. NES, GameBoy, GBA, DS, PS1 & PS2, etc). The one I play on the most is MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator). This emulator, emulates the program chips in arcade games so it reproduces basically the same feel as you can see from this video of me playing the fast-fire version. Here's a link to the GUI (graphical user interface) version of MAME and a few sites to get the roms (games) from. This should help you get started. Wolf MAME Ver.: 0.207 (the most recent ver) github.com/mahlemiut/wolfmame/releases/tag/wolf207 Sites to get MAME roms from www.doperoms.com/roms/Mame.html coolrom.com.au/roms/mame/

[@lmnop291]

Hey thanks man!!

[@user-xnxtz]

was this high score achieved on keyboard ?

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hi @user-xaffectual. Yes it was. Not too many players are versatile enough to play with both the keyboard and an arcade joystick controller like the Hotrod or X-Arcade. I can play just as good on a keyboard as an arcade joystick type controller. A gamepad is another story. lol.

[@cristianbasellli6039]

los juegos de los 80s se juegan original, como debe ser para presentar un high score, se debe hacer original, esto es solo disparar.

[@Al-jp7vc]

Your amazing the most I ever got was 240,000 without rapid fire.

[@TheGalagaKing]

I remember when I was getting scores between 200k and 300k. The difference between then and now is that we all have access to playing it right in our home 24/7/365 for free! I'm talking about MAME; the arcade emulator. I suggest (if you don't already have it) downloading it and then the roms for both fast-fire and the original fire. Then practice, practice, practice! And keep watching my videos and I guarantee your scores will climb. :)

[@daveidmarx8296]

Without rapid fire, the game is much more difficult.The most I ever scored w/o rapid fire is 341K

[@dreparkermk161]

@@daveidmarx8296 I was able to get up to 357K with a Ms Pacman plug n play. That thing is really hard to use so I basically do all of the controls one handed.

[@fireclaw90a51]

This is amazing

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks! It's hard to believe that was done over 20 years ago. I've gotten even better over the years, so there's no doubt I could raise the score even higher. Possibly even double it if I can stay awake that long. My longest run on one dual ship without dying is around 8.5 million and you get a total of 18 men in the game.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks! It's hard to believe that was done over 20 years ago. I've gotten even better over the years, so there's no doubt I could raise the score even higher. Possibly even double it if I can stay awake that long. My longest run on one dual ship without dying is around 8.5 million and you get a total of 18 men in the game.

[@fireclaw90a51]

Your really talented?? Like I can barely get pass one round without losing one ship XD

[@Ufukkkk]

damn this guy is good

[@Joewerty84]

Were your hands sore after playing this long? How long did it take you on the 16 million record?

[@TheGalagaKing]

Maybe a bit sore, but I was in my prime and only like 23 at the time! :) It wears on me some when I play for a few hours now, while streaming. Just like anything else, I have to exercise by playing as much as I can and staying as healthy as I can in 2017. :) I know players my age doing 24+ hour marathons, so I know I can play for 8-10 hours on one stretch. That game took me about 9 hours because it takes like 5-7 minutes longer to achieve a million on when playing the original fire version as opposed to the fast-fire version. I can reach a million on the fast-fire version in about 25 minutes before.

[@notyetskeletal4809]

I got RSI from playing this in 2005. A mere 936,000 was my highscore at Burgerfuel Ponsonby Auckland New Zealand. They turned the machine off and the score was gone. I suffered for years with RSI but i managed. I dont think I should play this again. Was fun in the 80s too but i was so tiny and not so good.at it.

[@TheGalagaKing]

@@notyetskeletal4809 Sorry for responding so late. Do you have access to a machine local to you now? If you do, you should work on cracking that cool million points. You're already thisclose! It's a great feeling, believe me. I remember when I hit a mill for the first time.

[@notyetskeletal4809]

I think there may be one in a surrounding suburb but I'm not going back to cripple myself again. There's Galaxian a few blocks away. I had to quit playing as much guitar as I do. Addictive personalities tend to turn too much of a good thing into poison. Ha. I've been playing a lot of Splatterhouse 2 lately. Another game I played addictivly was Mashed on Xbox or PS2. What kind of life do you lead outside of Galaga?

[@TheGalagaKing]

@@notyetskeletal4809 Galaga's my favorite game of all and I still play it till this day, but I don't allow it to overtake my life so instead, I just play a lot of Pinball. LOL. Actually, I exercise a lot and love to cook. I'm currently a prep-cook in an Italian restaurant here in Florida, so I'm always around food. I also like to repair and restore video games and pinball machines as a hobby and then sell them. In my younger years, I worked for many reputable companies repairing these machines for well over a decade. I've always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, which happens to be #1 on my bucket list. 🙂

[@DominionWolf]

Holy fuck, those things drop a lot of bullets in the late stages...

[@TinyMatt07]

I’m playing galgaga as I watch this

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hopefully you'll get a new personal best out of it!

[@oscarm6990]

Who else watched for a few minutes, then skipped to the death? Nice job though!

[@GamerGee]

2:05 tekken psx loading wcreen

[@goronimus304]

I always wondered what the bugs in the higher-level challenging stages looked like...

[@TheGalagaKing]

That was what kept me coming back to play this game over and over after it first came out. Once I successfully completed all 8 challenging stages, and realized they simply repeat again, it was then that I focused on how high of a score I could get.

[@goronimus304]

@@TheGalagaKing I could never dream of getting that far, but thanks for having the patience to show others what is possible.

[@Guidold66]

PHENOMENON 🏆🎩😎

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks bro. 👍

[@hildyejones4600]

#galaga

[@cobeferraro3464]

This is so OP

[@itsmrclutch]

Bro comfortably beats my high score in 5 minutes 45 seconds

[@legacysearches4481]

Anyplace I can download or play this on line? I LOVE this game!

[@MikeLoVega]

look for Mame this Programm emulate the old games

[@agentchris1482]

Impressive! If you get asked this question a lot but I apologize. Have you ever done the no enemy firing at you trick? If so how much farther do you think you’d get?

[@TheGalagaKing]

I used to do it here and there, back in the eighties. The purpose was to see how fast it would take me to get to 1 million points without worrying about crashing into bullets. A few years ago, I thought about playing a 50-hour game for charity, where my goal would be to reach 100 million. In order to do this, I would have to put the game on the easiest settings, thus allowing me the most amount of men I could receive (23 instead of 18). Then I would do the no-fire trick to help reach my goal.

[@agentchris1482]

@@TheGalagaKing Ah cool. 50 hours though whoa!!

[@CarlosAugusto-mg7hg]

Alguém do Brasil assistindo em abril de 2024 ?

[@virtuality8253]

why is the line for galaga in the arcade so long

[@TheGalagaKing]

Galaga happens to be one of the top 5 most popular classic games of all time. It's evident in all the various compilations that include it, that Namco has been putting out. It's just a fun-filled, addicting game to play! I started when it was released back in '81 and have been playing it ever since.

[@paulbthepolepositionchamp2943]

Great game

[@TheGalagaKing]

Thanks man!

[@SebastianMarcialVideo]

Player 1 needs to catch up

[@pinnokkiomusicchannel7787]

I like Galaga.

[@burcjm1]

I have a question. Why is there no kill screen at stage 256 like in other arcade games?

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hello Jeffrey. The reason the game keeps playing past the "kill-screen" is because the game is set to a difficulty of "D" which is considered the hardest setting of 4 difficulty settings. "A" being the easiest. If the game is set via the dip switches to A, B, or C, the game will either crash and reset or lock up at the end of stage 255. Playing it on "D" allows the game to advance to stage "0", then stage 1, 2, 3, etc. If you're in an arcade and want to know what the difficulty is set on without having access to opening up the game, just reset it (via the power button on top of the cabinet) and right before the game finishes it's boot-up sequence, a list of internal settings will flash on the screen for about a second, (upside down mind you). It's fast, so you would have to take a video of it and then play it back. so you can see what difficulty setting it's on. This is what you'll see, upside down. Notice in the middle of the screen, "Rank D". This is what you want to pay attention to. RAM OK ROM OK UPRIGHT 1 COIN 1 CREDIT 3 FIGHTERS RANK D SOUND 00 1ST BONUS 20000 PTS 2ND BONUS 70000 PTS AND EVERY 70000 PTS Hope this helps!

[@someguyonyoutube9279]

TEN. HOURS. How!?

[@sidineyleitesouza9618]

2 shots fired

[@PrimevalDemon]

I wonder what the first speedrun ever is or what is the earliest video of it available

[@CoolmineGaming]

I got stage 62 in arcade with 420,000 score

[@TheGalagaKing]

You're knocking on the door of half a million points! Keep pushing and your scores will climb!

[@volly3162]

Meanwhile im out here happy that i got a 66,000 score 🤣🤣

[@ricksanchez9228]

What rom is that The galaga king?

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hello Rick. The rom I used was the rom, named "galagads". The ds stands for " double shot".

[@AndreaRamsey-ng8yh]

Left right left right up up up fire?

[@jonsquirrel3661]

Galaga should be in the Video game Hall of Fame

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hey @jonsquirrel3661. I couldn't agree with you more. Definitely one of the top 5 retro classics of all-time imho.

[@CartoonPhreak]

Correct. Along with Tekken (the most successful 90s video game) and Time Crisis.

[@jonsquirrel3661]

@@CartoonPhreak also Soul Calibur

[@CartoonPhreak]

@@jonsquirrel3661 Exactly. Fix the comment to Samurai Shodown.

[@sawboss5794]

Is the first stage secret bogus? Supposedly if you leave the two on the far left alone until they stop firing , enemies will not shoot for the rest of the game.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hi Saw Boss. The "No-Fire" trick does in fact work. There are several videos on KZbin that show how to do it. I happen to grab one and listed the link below. It takes about 8 minutes give-or-take for the trick to work. Hope this helps. 👍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaTVeX95rbeSaNU

[@Fabio2009RS]

You improved the score? I see a new WR with 20.980.450 and another with 25.000.350.

[@TheGalagaKing]

My score was done many years ago and it was on The Fast Fire Version. I haven't tried to beat the score since. I know for sure I can because I've already reached 10 million with only three men a few years back and you get a total of 18 to play with. The scores you talk about are from other players within the last 2 years and it was done on the original fire version.

[@Sharptooth100]

Now if they fix that problem as soon as possible, Player 1 can score 20,000,000 points without a problem if back in 1981, Namco must fix this problem.

[@TheGalagaKing]

There is a Galaga Enhancement Pack which is basically an enhancement chip that will allow at least 8 digits in the score counter on the player 1 side, in addition to many other features like high score saves, the option to pick between original fire and fast-fire, and other features for around $40. You simply replace one of the main chips on the board with this pack and that's it!

[@joemeier6282]

how do you have he attention span

[@TheGalagaKing]

I sometimes find myself asking the same question. Lol. I guess it's because I never lost interest playing the game so I'm always focused whenever I play it. Once I lose focus, it's time to more on to some other game. I've been married to this game for 40 years now. Lol

[@ricksanchez9228]

What rom is that king?

[@retroedit_]

Has the difficulty basically capped by the time you get to stage 31 (the last Challenging Stage)? Or are there further difficulty increases?

[@TheGalagaKing]

By the third challenging stage, the game is at its hardest depending on the difficulty that's selected from start.

[@vrea77]

Why do people always play the second player and not the first

[@TheGalagaKing]

Hi vrea77. The reason I and others play on the 2nd player side, is because the player 1 side will only show 6 digits in the score. When played on the 2nd player side, as you can see from this video, the game will actually show as many as 8 digits. Not sure if it will show 9 though. Haven't tried it yet. That game would take about 48 hours to do...

[@vrea77]

Thanks Stephen krogman ,wow that never dawned on me. Every time I play I wanted to put my initials at the high score but I always end up flipping the game and starting back at zero. I never even thought of second player. Thanks.

[@TheGalagaKing]

Look at the 9:46.46 mark and notice the "2" on the top right side of the screen. A weird glitch maybe? Don't know, but it's cool that it appeared like that and stays there I'm presuming until the power is turned off.

[@hansomite1273]

What is this fast fire version? I was awesome back in the 80’s but didn’t know there were different settings. I could get 3 mill on whatever version was in my neighborhood arcade and could play forever with them not firing back. Didn’t know about the kill screen either

[@DBR00]

UNBELIEVABLE !!!!! One question though- were you able to pause the game for bathroom breaks?

[@TheGalagaKing]

Yes. The only break you get is on stage 0. It's the stage right after 255 which is technically the kill screen. You shoot everything on the screen except for 1 bee, then You park your ship in the corner for as long as you want. The bee continues to loop around and doesn't fire any bullets, so you won't die.

[@Azlura_]

you getting these scores while I'm here unable to pass stage 5 what is your secret😭😭😂

[@TheGalagaKing]

I'm old. 😆 Been playing since the game came out back in '81. It's just one of those games I couldn't put down. You'll get good at just about any game if you're determined enough to challenge yourself to do better each time you play and of course, you need to play and play and play and play.... Hope this helps. 🙂

[@Azlura_]

@@TheGalagaKing wow this inspired me to play the game again thank you

[@seandupuis7376]

The slow firing is the sole reason I never liked Galaga. If the Fast Fire was standard, this game would have been so much better

[@shady8045]

tfw you killed over 1000 waves of aliens but still havent saved earth

[@Joshinbro983]

You are a true master of space

[@vballref4]

I’m sorry I’ll stick to the no fire trick and kick all ya butts! Ps it’s not cheating it’s a game till you get caught HA! Good job bro dang.....

[@pierreboyer4185]

how do you do to shoot so faster ?

[@TheGalagaKing]

This is the fast-fire version. Meaning, Namco (or some other 3rd party company) reprogrammed one of the EPROM chips on the board to allow the bullets to come out of the ship twice as fast. Thus making it easier to play and in my humble opinion, more appealing to casual players then that of the original version (which shoots much slower). For a while, when it came out in the arcade, I found myself playing the hell out of it for many years, just to see how far I could go. Anyway, that's my opinion on the subject. 🙂 Hope this helps.