Make Your Own Mini-Galaga

Dinner with Steve Wiebe (of The King of Kong fame)

Mike Swanson's Blog — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:25:41 GMT

This past Thursday evening, Ray Winninger, Jennifer Ritzinger, Arthur Yasinski, and I met Steve Wiebe

re: Make Your Own Mini-Galaga

TRON3 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:55:48 GMT

I wish someone would make classics like Space Invaders, Berzerk, TRON, Zaxxon, etc.

Windows Media Player 11, CodePlex, and Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga Arcade Machine, Oh My

Michael Swanson's Blog — Thu, 18 May 2006 10:10:24 GMT

No, these three items don't have anything to do with each other. And I hate to admit that I'm using a...

re: Make Your Own Mini-Galaga

Michael Swanson — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:36:00 GMT

Alex:

I only made this one model, because Galaga wasn't available in the first set that was released. I used Adobe Illustrator and exported the file from there. Since then, other models have been released: http://www.wayoftherodent.com/pa/pa_change.htm

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Alex — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 05:52:00 GMT

How are you making the models? I have so many 3d models of arcade games that I want to make paper models of. Is there some special program I need? I tried Pepakura Designer but it doesen't work it right.

If you can help that would be great and I would of course share them.

re: Make Your Own Mini-Galaga

Michael Swanson — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 05:29:00 GMT

Cory:

Oops! Good catch. That happened to me a number of times while I was working with the file in Illustrator. Seems that my button layer kept going to the back of the stack. I've regenerated the images for you. Thanks again!

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Cory Smith — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 04:16:00 GMT

Cool! Now I can have one on the desk in front of me... and the real one sitting behind me :-D

Excellent job so far. I would recommend updating the control panel though to have the buttons and joystick (right now, it looks like there's some sort of a cutout patter for them).

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Michael Swanson — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:52:00 GMT

Fabrice:

Other than MAME and some of the commercial offerings, there are a few classic games (like Defender, Robotron, and Sinistar) available at the Shockwave.com site: http://www.shockwave.com/sw/actiongames/arcade_classics/

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Bruce — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:30:00 GMT

Very cool - I always think it is great when people "give back" to the Internet and add to the cool stuff out there rather than just being consumers. And a very nice job on the model, and giving credit (and "trackback") to the site that got you started.

Since the whole paper model / folding topic is out there, I worked on a few paper models this winter with my son. There are some other cool ones out there, I'll just point to a few.

Star Wars Inspired ( http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~shun-pop/gallery1/SW.html ) Free

NASA/Spacecraft ( http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/papermodels.cfm ) Free

and Fiddler's Green - Buildings / Aircraft ( http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/ ) Small Cost - we made the Castle and the World Trade Center

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Fabrice — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:04:00 GMT

Do you know of a Galaga port to Windows? I would enjoy playing it again!