By any modern viewpoint Galaga is an incredibly simple game, but a simple game is not a bad game. Anyone can look at Galaga, understand what's happening, pick it up, play it and have fun, while it still gives good reward to those who memorize it and put in time to develop skills. The core gameplay is classic and direct shmup, shooting down enemy fighters and avoiding shots, with the fun addition of intentionally being captured in order to save your ship and get a cool double ship power-up.
While it is very simple, the fact of the matter is that the game released on early 80s arcades and the Atari 7800. There simply wasn't a level of hardware to allow stuff that would come later. On top of that, Galaga is one of the first games upon which all others are built. When considering for the era the game actually has fairly good graphics for the time, even.
You can pretty much find it on any platform and it can run on anything, so if you wanna fire up a shmup and waste a few hours it is hard to go wrong with some old school Galaga.
While it is very simple, the fact of the matter is that the game released on early 80s arcades and the Atari 7800. There simply wasn't a level of hardware to allow stuff that would come later. On top of that, Galaga is one of the first games upon which all others are built. When considering for the era the game actually has fairly good graphics for the time, even.
You can pretty much find it on any platform and it can run on anything, so if you wanna fire up a shmup and waste a few hours it is hard to go wrong with some old school Galaga.