The Glory Days: Galaga

Galaga: Destination Earth is an old game I used to love so much. I have it on a PSOne disc and as a PC disc.

Long before those I first played it on NES [I swear I did] not the exact same thing, something so very similar though (my husband and I had an NES  and later an SNES back in 1992-1995.)

Back in those glory days we’d sit on the floor in front of our tube tv and have Nintendo Thumb so bad. That little rectangular piece of plastic digging into your hands, who cares!

I also played Tetris and Roger Clemens Baseball a lot.

The thing is, the Galaga game, as a ship going through the planets to the Earth, it’s what we played, it is absolutely what we played then. I don’t have any pictures of what it was, I can’t find info on it at all.

Back then all I had for a camera was a Canon p&s, and film and processing were part of it, of course, so I did not take just anything as a record or for memories unless it was something important. I just didn’t know back then how important this was! [kicking myself.]

Where are all those things we used to have? If they are in a box I hope they are in our possession somewhere … there are other things I’m looking for, old junk, not just those games, but a Zip drive, I have a cable, some of the Zip Disks … a card to connect in a parallel fast manner with a pc … but the Zip drive is hiding. Maybe it’s in the box with my NES games, my SNES games that are missing (have some of them) … oh Galaga, my Galaga.

FWIW I got the PSOne disc and used a few computer programs and successfully ripped it and ran it through to be an eboot file for my PSP, works great, except for, no music. I have to work on it more. Anyhow, I just don’t get some things about Galaga, like what was it that we played on NES before? What was it we played on NES before? And what was it that we played on NES before? Yes, repeating the question. Over and over and over. It’s like that, so “in there” digging at my brain.

The next idea that bugs me is, of ALL the PSONE games PSN could put on the store, why not Galaga: Destination Earth? It works alright as a PS3 remote play on PSP, works on PS3 just fine (to me) so please SONY PLAYSTATION, get it on PSN!

I’d pay for a better copy to download. Otherwise, I’ll have to spend more time researching and fixing it up … ugh. Not that it’s that bad, but it would be SO MUCH SIMPLER for PlayStation to do it.

Maybe it’s not up to snuff, so then how about getting it rebooted to some awesome game. Retro, sure, but updated.

The soundtrack though, I love that, and it’s the one thing I can listen to on the computer or the PS3, as both recognize 7 tracks as being CD songs. The songs are ripped on both. I’m still going to try to figure out how to get the music in the psp eboot version I made. I didn’t put much into it, so I owe it to myself to do more.