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Galaga

An earlyish top-scrolling shooter. We've run across a number of working cabinets in the last few years (as of 2022) and played it at home as well. Learning the alien patterns is fun and so is competing for a high score.

Has mildly broken into popular culture. I read a book about this game: Galaga. It features prominently in the short story "I Was a Teenage Space Jockey" by Stephen Graham Jones, which was on Levar Burton Reads in October 2022.