Arcade & Classic Games · 79

Classic arcade games often explain themselves through motion: enemies approach, objects fall, and the player's first mistake teaches the goal faster than a manual could. A related fact is worth keeping. Galaga let captured fighters become part of the player's strategy: rescuing one could create a more powerful dual-fighter formation at the cost of a larger target. A flashing bonus object is the machine asking whether greed is stronger than survival instinct.