YMMV / Galaga

• Awesome Music:
  • Galaga Arrangement, part of Namco Classics Collection Vol. 1, has a surprisingly incredible soundtrack. Particular mention goes to Nebula Zone and King Galaspark.
  • There's also the Galaga Medley in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which is a medley of all the very little amount of music and sound effects the game has to offer, put into a full blown song.
  • In Galaga '88, the themes for the "That's Galactic Dancin'" bonus stages, such as the Tango sequence.
    • The "Arrange Mode" featured in the Sharp X68000 version of the game replaces these dances with several segments based off other Namco properties, such as Mappy and Pac-Man. They're such a treat to listen to.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: In the original game, world-class players will start a 2-player game and play on the player 2 side. This is because player 1's score counter is only 6 digits long and will roll scores over 999,990 back to 0, but player 2 has a 7-digit score counter.
• Even Better Sequel: To Galaxian.
  • Galaga '88 to the first Galaga, to those who actually played it.
  • The jury is out on the maddeningly difficult Gaplus, but the features it added (your own Tractor Beam that you can use to convert enemy fighters to your side) are pretty neat.
• Good Bad Bugs:
  • Enemies can be made to stop firing completely in Galaga. This is done by killing all but the two left-most enemies on the first stage. Their rate of fire will gradually decrease over the span of about 15 minutes, to nothing ^note This is due to them firing shots at X-coordinate 0 which do not move and clog up the 8 memory buffers reserved for tracking the locations of shots. It will stay this way the rest of the game.
  • There is a very small gap in the hitbox between your Dual Ship, so there's a slim chance that you can exploit it to allow an enemy missile to slip through without losing either of your ships, but this requires very lucky timing to pull off.
  • It is possible to kill two enemies in a single shot and thus have a hit ratio of over 100%, up to 200% if you only make one-bullet double hits or don't fire anymore. Not that having a >100% ratio is any useful to scoring.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The special jingle that plays if you shoot down every enemy in a Challenging Stage.
  • The intro music is a time-honored classic of arcade music.
• Sequel Displacement: Far more successful and well-known than its predecessor, Galaxian.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Galaga's theme song sounds similar to some few notes from the Star Wars theme song.

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