Hence, with Hasbro releasing remakes of classic arcade games, Game Boy is an attractive outlet. Running into these characters means instant death. Hopping from block to block requires diagonal movements, and Game Boy's directional controller was designed for vertical and horizontal movements. Hasbro was not able to build this into the game. As a product of the Space Invaders generation, the controls in Galaga simply include horizontal motion and a firing button.
Players control a space ship that moves side to side as it blasts enemy ships.
Game Boy's pad could not be better suited. In some ways Galaga seems to play better on Game Boy than it did on its native arcade hardware. It is very responsive, and Game Boy's additional RAM allows for better backgrounds than the old star fields on the arcade game. The only hitch is that it's hard to see the little missiles the enemy ships rain on your fighter on Game Boy's tiny screen. All too often the game leaves you wondering what hit you.