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Synopsis

Zalaga is a video game by Nick Pelling. It was developed and published by Aardvark Software and republished by Alternative Software for the BBC Microcomputer & Electron. It was also ported to the Commodore 64 in 1989. Zalaga is a fixed-screen shoot'em up that is almost identical to Galaga. The player controls his spaceship at the bottom of the screen and must shoot the aliens moving above him. Enemies fly in formations and will try to shoot or collide with the player's ship. Once all the aliens have been killed, the player advances to the next level. After every few levels, there is a challenge stage where enemies fly in a certain pattern and the player must shoot down as many as possible. Some ships can trap the player's ship with a tractor beam. The player can then take it back by destroying the ship that captured it and thus obtain two ships at once with twice the firepower. Zalaga can be played by one or two players with keyboard or joystick. An operator mode allows the player to customize certain settings, such as the start screen, auto-fire, and reload speed.

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