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Video Vault: A Brief History of Galaga!

November 29th, 2018 Joshua Ball Lists & Things, Video

With December’s Loot Gaming crate, we’re taking this OFFWORLD with some rad franchises like Halo, Mass Effect, and Gears of War. But we’re also throwing it back old school with an item from one of the OG space-related video games, and that’s, of course, the arcade classic, Galaga!

Launched in 1981 by Namco and published in the US by Midway, Galaga is a crown jewel of the golden age of arcade games and is frequently included in top 100 lists for the best games of all-time for its quality, but this nostalgic masterpiece is also one of the most commercially successful video games of that era, too. I was wanting to get my hands on a video of some kind to give all you whippersnappers out there that may not know about the splendor that is Galaga, and as it turns out a relatively small YouTbue channel called Free Play Arcade did a great short on the history of Galaga – give it a look!



And once you’re done learning a little bit of the backstory behind one of gaming’s greatest golden age treasures, why not hop on over to lootcrate.com to check out December’s OFFWORLD Loot Gaming crate, featuring a rad Galaga item, and more!

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Joshua Ball

Josh is the Communications Manager at Loot Crate and has been with the company for coming up on five incredible years. In his spare time, you may find Josh thwarting evil, winning the Super Bowl, procuring the Master Sword, slaying monsters, catching them all, defending Azeroth, rescuing the princess, and/or saving the Universe.

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