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Galaxia

Original title

Galaxia

Developed by

• Steven Wallis
  
• Sean Wallis
  

Year

1985

System

Rating

  (5 votes)  

 

 

Sound

PSG

Kind

Game

Max Players

1

Max Simultaneous

1

Input Devices Supported

Keyboard, Joystick

Language

English

Genre

Arcade

Licence

Commercial

Note

From the web site of one of the authors, Steve Wallis (http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk/games.htm):

Get past the alien fleet (shooting as many of the spaceships you feel like) and dock with your starship. Sean wrote this game (with me providing the BASIC compiler and Z-80 assembly language code, and porting it to the MSX platform) and – obviously deliberately – named it after the very left-wing future of the galaxy at the end of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series to undermine that series by associating the ending with violence towards aliens. I discovered much later the reason that he had been able to get away with this – he read Foundation’s Edge (which introduced the term Galaxia) before me, unlike Isaac’s other books which I bought, because he received that book as a prize for doing well at school. He did this because he was and still is (partly at least) on the side of big business in the conspiratorial organisations underneath the surface of society. I have since reused “Galaxia” as the name of a revolutionary socialist band.

Mentioned in

• MSX Computing 1985-08/09 on page 48 (review)
• MSX Gids 02 on page 42 (review)
• Input MSX 2-17 on page 54 (news)
• MSX User 09 on page 63 (review)
• Micros MSX 6 on page 84 (review)
• MSX and Spectravideo Computer Forum Magazine Volume 1 No. 2 on page 2 (ad)

Added on

24-04-2006

Last updated on

16-04-2019