![]() October 2004 (Issue #9) – #49 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote).Galaxian was originally licensed to Atari. What makes this trivia? Usually only Mindscape games were released under Thunder Mountain. Was later re-released under the Thunder Mountain label. Another side-effect of shortening the playfield to a width of 256 pixels is the optimization of game calculations, stemming from the fact that horizontal coordinates fit in a single byte instead of two. ![]() Galaxian (and its clone, Cosmic Crusader) get away with relatively high framerates on the original 4.77MHz PC because they don't use the entire screen for a playfield the right fifth of the screen (64 pixels) is unused. ExtrasĪtari's 2600 release of Galaxian came with the comic book Atari Force #5. DevelopmentĪtari 2600 programmer Mark Ackerman, at the time working in Atari's "think-tank" GCC, was granted a patent for his technique invented for the 2600 port of Galaxian, allowing eight sprites to be displayed in one row. ![]() The Arcade version of Galaxian appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
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