NES Galaga (Atari) (Proto) NES

[Juiceala]

This is the unreleased Galaga port to the Famicom/NES by Atari and Hal, while developped in 1983 alongside three other games (Joust, Millipede, and Star Gate/Defender II), Galaga was never released due to Namco's version beating them to the market. You can learn more in the official Hidden Palace page.

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[Juiceala]

Here's a nice write up on how the Atari HAL ports came to be if anyone is interested on why this exists.

HAL Laboratory's Three Arcade Ports

In 1988, HAL Laboratory released three NES games, ports of the arcade games Defender II, Millipede, and Joust. One doesn’t associate HAL Laboratory with arca...

nicole.express

Its funny that before this rom was found people thought it was going to be a port of Kangaroo from early Sunsoft!!

I would've liked a port of Kangaroo to the Famicom.

 

[Crosser19]

Here's a nice write up on how the Atari HAL ports came to be if anyone is interested on why this exists.

HAL Laboratory's Three Arcade Ports

In 1988, HAL Laboratory released three NES games, ports of the arcade games Defender II, Millipede, and Joust. One doesn’t associate HAL Laboratory with arca...

nicole.express

Its funny that before this rom was found people thought it was going to be a port of Kangaroo from early Sunsoft! Also interesting that while unconfirmed, since the other three Atari ports were early programming jobs by late Nintendo company president, Satoru Iwata, he may have done this port as well!

 

[CSmith327]

are you referring to this?

Nice, the US interpretation of it was just different I guess. Like how Sega of America originally had different lore for Sonic that was retconned later. The official lore from Namco is probably a giant bug alien species. Since literally all the games of Galaxian, Galaga, Gaplus, Galaga 88, Galaga Arrangement, and the Galaga Remix ones for PSP and iPhone have very insect like designs. Especially the bosses in the ones that have them. Like giant butterflies and worms and stuff.

 

[gxm]

Wait, is it canon that the enemy ships are actually manned by aliens like that? I always thought they were just giant bug aliens or something. Galaga 88 makes them really look like just giant bugs. But the cover of this one has some aliens shown piloting them

are you referring to this?

 

[Juiceala]

Wait, is it canon that the enemy ships are actually manned by aliens like that? I always thought they were just giant bug aliens or something. Galaga 88 makes them really look like just giant bugs. But the cover of this one has some aliens shown piloting them

This is the Atari 7800 boxart, since this one was not released I thought it is fitting to use the closest to an official boxart to how it might've looked like.

 

[CSmith327]

Wait, is it canon that the enemy ships are actually manned by aliens like that? I always thought they were just giant bug aliens or something. Galaga 88 makes them really look like just giant bugs. But the cover of this one has some aliens shown piloting them

 

[Erik Óptero]

I think this game came into a 21 games in 1 plus Contra cartridge, :d, and the missions were like on a loop, but I don't remember it at all, x'd?

 

[Zero_X]

Back when games weren't so violent, haha

 

[Juiceala]

I didn't even know an Atari version was developed. I really liked Namco's Famicom port (I'm a lot better at it than the arcade version, actually).

While initially I grew up with the MSX version I also got the Famicom version shortly after and it is the version I'm mostly familiar with.

 

[Scotty Scotty]

I didn't even know an Atari version was developed. I really liked Namco's Famicom port (I'm a lot better at it than the arcade version, actually).