{"id":1426,"date":"2011-08-27T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2025-01-11T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T14:58:25","slug":"the-glory-days-galaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2011\/08\/27\/the-glory-days-galaga\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glory Days: Galaga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in those glory days we&#8217;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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also played Tetris and Roger Clemens Baseball a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, the Galaga game, as a ship going through the planets to the Earth, it&#8217;s what we played, it is absolutely what we played then. I don&#8217;t have any pictures of what it was, I can&#8217;t find info on it at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then all I had for a camera was a Canon p&amp;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&#8217;t know back then how important this was! [kicking myself.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where are all those things we used to have? If they are in a box I hope they are in our possession somewhere &#8230; there are other things I&#8217;m looking for, old junk, not just those games, but a Zip drive, I have a cable, some of the Zip Disks &#8230; a card to connect in a parallel fast manner with a pc &#8230; but the Zip drive is hiding. Maybe it&#8217;s in the box with my NES games, my SNES games that are missing (have some of them) &#8230; oh Galaga, my Galaga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s like that, so &#8220;in there&#8221; digging at my brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d pay for a better copy to download. Otherwise, I&#8217;ll have to spend more time researching and fixing it up &#8230; ugh. Not that it&#8217;s that bad, but it would be SO MUCH SIMPLER for PlayStation to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s not up to snuff, so then how about getting it rebooted to some awesome game. Retro, sure, but updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The soundtrack though, I love that, and it&#8217;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&#8217;m still going to try to figure out how to get the music in the psp eboot version I made. I didn&#8217;t put much into it, so I owe it to myself to do more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[530,536,529,531,534,428,533,417,532,33,535],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-destination-earth","tag-eboot","tag-galaga","tag-galaga-destination-earth","tag-nes","tag-playstation","tag-ps1","tag-psn","tag-psone","tag-psp","tag-snes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1513,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2011\/11\/27\/a-perspective\/","url_meta":{"origin":1426,"position":0},"title":"A Perspective","author":"Maisy","date":"Sunday, November 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This article makes me uncomfortable, and also makes me laugh. Consoles are big, important, and Sony has the best one. Why do we have a WII? Well, we do because it was cheaper, and kind of novel at the time (April 2008) ... hard to find in our area, DH\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2572,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2016\/03\/31\/lord-of-the-rings-the-third-age\/","url_meta":{"origin":1426,"position":1},"title":"LORD OF THE RINGS: THE THIRD AGE","author":"Maisy","date":"Thursday, March 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We never had a Nintendo GameCube, but our Wii is GameCube play-able, I picked up the above title at 2nd and Charles sometime last year, but didn't have controllers, so later got them, then couldn't find where I'd put the game, so time went on and OMG look there it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lordoftheringsthirdagegamecube.jpg?fit=400%2C500&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1247,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2011\/02\/24\/psp-golden-compass-umd-frustration\/","url_meta":{"origin":1426,"position":2},"title":"PSP Golden Compass UMD &#8211; frustration","author":"Maisy","date":"Thursday, February 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I know, it's a dumb game. I had it back when I first got a PSP (2007) I didn't play it much at all, but would have, and then lost the case I had several UMD's in, and it was one of them. Recently my DH was out-of-town and went\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1664,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2012\/07\/31\/the-bourne-identity-blu-ray\/","url_meta":{"origin":1426,"position":3},"title":"The Bourne Identity &#8211; Blu-ray","author":"Maisy","date":"Tuesday, July 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We picked up a new copy of The Bourne Identity at Costco the other day. I wasn't pleased to find a dual disc in the box. There was NO indication of this being the case on the outside of the disc's box or sleeve. To be clear it says this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2593,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2005\/10\/20\/getting-a-rare-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1426,"position":4},"title":"Getting a rare thing","author":"Maisy","date":"Thursday, October 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"My Stryper - Reborn CD came in the mail today, the one from eBay, I think I wrote about it, maybe I didn't before, in any case: It's one of the first presses, that went out, but 3 songs were ordered wrong, so they re-pressed it with the right order,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2822,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2017\/01\/01\/happy-new-year-2017-style\/","url_meta":{"origin":1426,"position":5},"title":"Happy New Year 2017 Style!","author":"Maisy","date":"Sunday, January 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a new year and that means: just another digit added to the year. My PSN goal for the end of the year was to get to LEVEL 16, which I did by the hair of my chinny chin chin. This year I hope to increase to LEVEL 17 by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Entertainment","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/category\/entertainment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}