Galaga (1983 Atari prototype)

Galaga (1983 Atari prototype)
Dump status Released, redump needed Dumped by Frank Cifaldi Origin EPROM Game Galaga System NES Genre Shooter Release date Unreleased

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Unreleased port of Galaga developed as part of an aborted 1983 deal where Atari would distribute the Famicom outside Japan.

Notes

• Atari contracted Nintendo to develop ports of 4 titles that Atari owned the home rights to (Galaga, Joust, Millipede, and Stargate) as launch titles for Atari's version of the Famicom. Nintendo then subcontracted development on these titles to HAL Laboratory. After the deal fell through, HAL eventually released Joust, Millipede, and Stargate themselves, but Galaga never saw a release as Namco had already put out their own Famicom port of Galaga. Namco's port is entirely different from HAL's port.

• The CHR ROM to this prototype is lost, and had to be recreated to make the game fully playable. The graphics for the recreated CHR ROM were mostly sourced from HAL's port of Stargate and from the arcade version of Galaga. The download on this release page includes both a .nes file with the recreated CHR ROM, and the standalone original PRG ROM file.

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Acknowledgements

Recreated CHR ROM credits:

• Initial work (ship sprites, HUD, rough title screen, font, some enemy sprites): Frank Cifaldi
• Enemy background tiles: Rushifell
• Title screen cleanup, HUD graphics, missing enemy sprites, tractor beam graphics, point value sprites, moving graphics around to fit the hitboxes from the game's assembly code: Nathan Misner