Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!umd5!crabcake!arromdee From: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Desperately seeking Galaga Message-ID: <733@crabcake> Date: 4 Feb 90 06:41:09 GMT References: <703@sppy00.UUCP> <115200070@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Kenneth Arromdee) Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept. Lines: 20 In article scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) writes: >> Hmmm... It's been a LONG time since I've played Galaxian.... >> How do you make them buggers stop shooting? >you leave one or two of the second type of alien [red?] on the LEFT >of your screen. You move your ship over to the right of the screen. >Wait for about 7 minutes and watch the aliens. If they BOTH do not >fire in a single pass... kill them both. No other alien will ever >fire on any other wave. You can also do this with one red guy, you >just have to wait almost twice as long. Assuming that you mean "Galaga", not "Galaxian", I have done this but with blue aliens, not red ones. (Maybe it works with red ones too, who knows?) You can't just wait at the edge; sometimes it'll shoot a wraparound bullet that can get you unless you dodge it. -- "Workers of the world, we're sorry!" --Soviet protestor's slogan Kenneth Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm; INTERNET: arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu)