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GALABU
Group: Multiplayer • Author: DJ Sures
Created 2026-11-11 • Updated 2026-11-11GALABU, a co-op multiplayer shooter for 1–4 NABUs, similar to Galaga but GALABU!
You can find GALABU in the Multiplayer category. To run this, look in the Internet Adapter or Headless menu on the NABU/MAME and navigate to the Multiplayer channel category and select GALABU.
- The swarm hangs in formation and sways left and right: 4 commanders, 16 wasps and 16 drones, each with two animation frames. The pixel art is my own.
- Aliens loop out of the formation, dive at a random pilot and shoot aimed shots. Commanders bring the two wasps beside them as escorts. Divers that reach the bottom come back in from the top and fly home.
- Points are doubled while an alien is diving, and you get an extra ship every 20,000 points. Each wave is faster, and more pilots in the sky means more divers.
- Everyone in a session fights the same swarm. Each pilot has a colour (white, cyan, green or magenta) used for their ship, shots and score tag. The bottom row shows the other pilots' scores.
- Joining works like hockey: you drop into a sky already in progress, or one gets created. If the host leaves, another player takes over. When you run out of ships, press FIRE to play again. If every pilot is out for 3 seconds, the game goes back to wave 1.
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