Galaga Traditional Geocache

Galaga is a fixed shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan and published by Midway in North America in 1981. It is the sequel to Galaxian, released in 1979.

The objective of Galaga is to score as many points as possible by destroying insect-like enemies. The player controls a starfighter that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield. Enemies swarm in groups into into a formation near the top of the screen, and then begin flying down toward the player, firing bombs at and seemingly attempting to collide with the fighter.

Occasionally a "boss Galaga", who takes two shots to kill, attempts to capture the player's fighter using a tractor beam. If successful, the fighter joins the enemy formation, tethered to the boss that captured it. The player can recapture their ship by killing that boss while it is diving. The recaptured ship is then joined to the player's current ship, doubling the player's firepower but also making themselves twice as big a target.