I actually played the 28 players version of that in some Namco amusement park / super-arcade center outside Tokyo in 1995. Players were on a circular platform and surrounded by a 360? screen, but the kicker was that the whole room (or at least the platform) was on hydraulic pistons that faked pretty convincingly the movements of the spaceship you were supposed to be in. The only draw back for me was that I went there during a week day or something so there was very very few people on the site and ended up alone in my Galaxian session, so I missed the collective/frantic aspect of the fun.There was an arcade in my area which had Galaxian 3. It was like it's own room where 6 players went in and sat down and played gunners on a giant screen. I never did play it because it was around $3 to play iirc. Was still a pretty impressive booth.Here is a little article about it.
Was it like a sure thing you'd win or could you lose? I never could figure out the game's rules. It always seemed like entire groups would go in and play it and then come out.I actually played the 28 players version of that in some Namco amusement park / super-arcade center outside Tokyo in 1995. Players were on a circular platform and surrounded by a 360? screen, but the kicker was that the whole room (or at least the platform) was on hydraulic pistons that faked pretty convincingly the movements of the spaceship you were supposed to be in. The only draw back for me was that I went there during a week day or something so there was very very few people on the site and ended up alone in my Galaxian session, so I missed the collective/frantic aspect of the fun.
I played this. Over and over again! This and Dragon's Lair if it was ever open, otherwise I would play this game, Bubble Hockey, and wait for Dragon's Lair.Its old school but I'd honestly get the original star wars game that was in the arcade. The vector graphics one with the big sit in cabinet. Something epic about that one.