Galencia

A little history on the game. The Commodore 64 never got a true port of Galaga. The official port and ports other companies made for the system were sub-par. Then came Galencia in the later 2010s. True ports. Fun as hell and not sub-par. Every Galaga fan needs to give this game a go. It is a must.

A new Galaga. Made right. This is the so-called "new retro" game. This was released in 2017, but it's a C64 game. This means it's a new game, not from the C64 era, but at the same time, the real retro game, because it was made for an actual retro platform. Unlike many of today's imposter games with "retro" tags, which is basically an excuse for cheap graphics, which will suffer from FPS drops on some old cheap laptop more than capable of running any actual retro DOS game. Galencia isn't that, it's the real thing. It's an interesting trend these days. There are also new NES and SEGA [b]cartrige[/b] games.

I very much enjoy old-school space shooters because they remind me of my childhood. I've re-played many of them in emulators as adult, often resulting in disappointment because they were a lot more detailed and complex in my memory. Galencia is like one of those old games that still looks and plays perfectly today. This game was created by talented people and is worth your time.

I discovered this in the library of pre-installed games on my C64 "Maxi". At first glance, I expected a simple Galaga clone. I was wrong. This is an excellent game that stands on it's own, and I have a great time playing it. Ignore my Steam play time, I've put many nights into blasting away baddies with this gem on the C64.

It's a fun, classic and very challenging little space shooter! This is a slightly changed version, adapted for Steam, from the Commodore 64. I've hardly noticed any input lag at all, and the emulation seeems to run perfectly lag free, locked and sync'd at 50hz PAL, so everything moved about smooth as butter. All this is currently running on VICE 3.1 emulation. The music sounds very nice, and isn't too repetitive, the graphics and colour pallette usage are well above average. :) Highscores save automatically, can be reset too. You can enable and disable scanlines, too.

It is great spiritual successor to the galaga series, and cracking c64 game that shows what the dusty old breadbox is capable of