Trivia: What counterintuitive strategy is key to maximizing a Galaga score?
Never firing a shot
Staying completely still
Allowing your ship to be captured
Flying directly into enemy ships
The correct answer is Allowing your ship to be captured
So why is this answer correct? : The “double ship” gambit of Galaga is tricky to be sure, but no one ever saved the galaxy by playing it safe. Chess players will be familiar with the idea of sacrificing a pawn for the ultimate win. The maneuver involves allowing a “Boss Galaga” enemy to come in close, activate their tractor beam, and steal the player’s ship. While the immediate result is losing a life, the seized ship can subsequently be rescued and joins the current ship as a conjoined dual fighter. This allows twice the firepower, critical for clearing bonus stages.