Galaxian Game System: MAME Cheat Category: Hint Game Company: Unknown Game Category: Unknown Hint, Cheat, Walkthrough:   GALAXIAN ======== (KAPTAIN:) When a Flagship is destroyed in flight in waves 1 through 14 the rest of the fleet stops firing for a few seconds of mourning. This is your big chance to get the escorts and any other warriors that you can. This may be the only time that they aren't firing at you. Always have a strategical escape planned to avoid patterns of missile attacks. Think fast and scan the screen for methods of outsmarting the Galaxian fleet. Some members of the Galaxian fleet are incredibly difficult to destroy, but with practice you'll outsmart them! (DEFINITIVE:) Contributor : Ken Arromdee)Shoot one of the yellow (topmost) ships when it first comes down. It causes everyone to stop firing for a few moments. (GALAXIAN HOMEPAGE:) Sometimes, when there are just a few aliens left over and they're all attacking, they'll perform loopings, giving you a better chance of hitting them. When a new wave of aliens appears, they are drawn in rows, one row at a time, from right to left in a rather slow fashion. It seems, though, that the aliens are already there... They are merely made visible in this way. Try taking potshots at the clear sky above in the lull between waves; sometimes you'll hit a (not yet visible) alien, and its row will flash briefly before the rest of the aliens appear! You can also 'transfer' flagships to the next wave! Just keep the flagships alive (maybe with some red aliens) until the end of the round, until they are the last ones and are forced to attack anyway. Just let them go by your ship... they'll pass twice and then disappear. They'll be present at the next wave. You can accumulate up to four bosses per round this way! This is not really advisable as it reduces your maximum score. If a flagship attacks with two red escorts, you don't always have to shoot both to get 800 points for the flagship... So how does this work? Easy, but the circumstances must be just right. Sometimes, the attacking group will brush along the side of the screen. You must first shoot the escort that is most to the inside of the screen. The alien on the outside of the screen might disappear like it was brushed off at the side and reenters at the top of the screen. If you shoot the flagship now you will score 800 points anyway! This bug was even correctly ported to the Nintendo NES version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Source: MAME v0.33 Strategy Guide - Compiled by Phanatik URL: http://members.tripod.com/~phanatik/index.html