{"id":585,"date":"2025-05-18T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=585"},"modified":"2025-05-18T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:14:22","slug":"galactic-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Galactic Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The alien invaders are coming to attack Earth. Try to destroy them as they break formation and attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 1 or 2 players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/electricadventures.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-64.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-586\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, of course, after Space Invaders, one of the games that I played at the arcades was Galaxian.\u00a0This was a bit more of a stretch for a Basic program, as a larger number of enemies needed to be moved, as well as the attack patterns of the diving aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only one alien dives at a time, and there are only two types, but not a bad attempt at making a more complex game by my early programming self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tony-cruise\/ElectricAdventuresArchive\/blob\/main\/MSX\/GALACTIC.BAS\">Download<\/a> the MSX version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the video here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Electric Adventures, The Games - Galactic Assault\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kHCoZP80g-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alien invaders are coming to attack Earth. Try to destroy them as they break formation and attack. For 1 or 2 players. So, of course, after Space Invaders, one of the games that I played at the arcades was Galaxian.\u00a0This was a bit more of a stretch for a Basic program, as a larger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legacy-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricadventures.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}