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Galaxy Invasion	shoot them up space	1980	image specs screenshots machines company oc_id source /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxyinvasion_box_m.jpg label value year of release 1980 label value companies Big Five Software label value type game label value media tape & disk label value systems Tandy TRS-80 label value number of players 1 - 2 players (alternate) label value staff Bill Hogue, Jeff Konyu title subtitle text image title screen /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss01.png title subtitle text image menu / options /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss02.png title subtitle text image /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss03.png title subtitle text image flagship attack alert! /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss04.png title subtitle text image /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss05.png title subtitle text image /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss09.png title subtitle text image only one alien left /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss08.png title subtitle text image game over /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss06.png title subtitle text image you made it into the top 10! /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxy-invasion_ss07.png title subtitle text image box /media/museum/software/tandy_trs80_galaxyinvasion_box.jpg /museum/tandy-radio-shack-trs-80-model-i /companies/tandy-radio-shack 709 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230606200126/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=709 2023-06-06

Galaxy Invasion was the second game released by Big Five Software. It was directly inspired by arcade hit Galaxian released one year earlier.

This version includes a special feature not found in the original game: the flagship attack! Sometimes, there is a flagship attack alert. You then have a few seconds to destroy the flagships or they will strike you with their powerful beam (no escape possible)!

Bill Hogue, the programmer, said about Galaxy Invasion:

I'm still really proud of the game play on Galaxy. I was living at my parent's house when I wrote this one and I remember lying in my bed in the darkened room at night watching the glow of the little aliens flying around the screen. Galaxy didn't originally have sound effects but they were added later in a special edition that featured some additional graphic tricks as well. To get sound on a TRS-80 you used a small amplified speaker plugged into the cassette output port. All of the later games I wrote had sound built-in. Super Nova was the only game that never had sound.