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Galaga

No enemy fire trick - On either the 1st or 2nd screen, leave one of the blue/yellow bugs, from either of the 2 left-most columns in the formation. Avoid its fire until it stops (and passes at least 3 times down the screen without firing). This takes anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to perform.

200% accuracy trick - When the game starts, don’t move, firing only one shot. If done right, two enemies will be killed. Kill off all your ships to see rating.

BUG: Credit glitch - As soon as a game ends, put a credit in, and keep hitting the START button. When the “results” screen goes off, the credits will read zero.

RUMOR: Game over glitch (?) - let your 1st ship get captured. Kill off the next one. When the Galaga/Ship combo comes down, crash into it, destroying all 3. You’ll get points for “shooting” both, and the game will play on forever even though there’s no ships left!

PLAY ATTRACT MODE (thanks to Brian Kendig for sending this one): On Galaga (and the Galaga in the Galaga/Ms.Pacman 20th Anniversary machine), it's possible to play the attract mode. Wait until the game demo when the alien ship comes down and turns on its tractor beam to capture the player's ship. At that moment, take the controls and press Fire a couple of times to destroy the alien ship. Then you'll have control of the attract mode for a little while. Sometimes if you manage to destroy all the alien ships quickly enough, it'll sit there at a scrolling starfield with no enemies for a couple of minutes; other times it'll realize something's wrong and crash and reset and keep going normally.

 

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