It's too insanely easy to toss aside Galaxian as the step stool that it is for Namco to build upon the groundwork of Taito's Space Invaders into the beloved Tekken loading screen classic that is Galaga.

So instead I will be proposing a reason for you to give this actually good arcade game a worthwhile try, because it's a shame for something like this with historical value to be crumpled up and shot into the wastebasket just because something better was made two years later that would vacuum up all the pop culture awareness like a tractor beam from a Boss Galaga.

Galaga would give you a more lenient shots-on-screen quantity of two, Galaxian instead only allows one at a time. Thus the aim here is for accuracy rather than willy nilly vanilly repeated tappings of the button or cheating with holding rapid fire. You must make your shots count, and with that Galaxian becomes a true marksman's game. If you couldn't hit the broadside of a barn prior to playing this, then you'll be able to hit all four sides of it as well as the roof and somehow the bottom after you have mastered Galaxian and it's demanding sniper precision. Thus, Galaxian is in fact the best shooting practice game ever made, and you owe it to yourself to 1cc it all the way up to whenever the kill screen appears for maximum skill obtainment.

Coincidentally, "Galboss" is my new title as of this review. Good for me.