Galaga: Destination Earth

Galaga: Destination Earth brings the classic slide-and-shoot arcade gameplay of Galaga into a late-22nd-century battle against mutated nanites created during terraforming. Across nine new worlds, players blast waves of insect-like enemies while completing objectives such as collecting life pods and activating water turbines.

The game retains the original’s horizontally moving ship and formation-based enemy attacks, while adding over-the-shoulder, top-down, and side-on viewpoints. Players can expand their firepower, rescue a captured ship to double their shots, and collect beam power-ups that capture enemies and let them fight alongside the player. Challenge waves focus on destroying streams of enemies for points without putting the player’s ship at risk.

Platforms: Nintendo Game Boy Color, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation, Sony PlayStation
Genre: Shooter
Release date: September 25, 2000