King Galaxian is an Alien Robot Dethatched from the Mothership in the 1999 PSX Game Entitled "Pac-Man World" and its 2022 remake "Pac-Man World
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Appearance in Pac-Man World[]
The level starts with Pac-Man on a small platform with a Space Board floating off of the edge above an abyss of space. When Pac-Man jumps on, he instantly starts moving forward. He encounters some of the lesser, blue and purple Galaxian ships. He'll eventually encounter orange and green Galaxian ships that are supposedly stronger. Finally, there are the highest Galaxian ships that can create a rainbow-colored force field to protect them. These all shoot glowing, star-like projectiles.
Pac-Man will have to go through a huge cluster of asteroids to get to the halfway point, where there is a checkpoint. Eventually, Pac-Man comes to a huge ship, and begins gliding across it, still while fighting Galaxian ships. When he gets to the other end of the huge spaceship, it breaks off to reveal King Galaxian; a large creature with two pincer claws and four blood red eyes, two on each side of its face.
To defeat King Galaxian, the player must shoot out all four of his eyes. The player can tell when he's close to shooting one out, when the eye darkens from red to black. After Pacman shoots out one eye, the King backs up, out of the player's shooting range. He then sends out more Galaxian ships, while shooting out yellow stars of energy. After finishing off the grunts, King Galaxian resumes his original position, and this repeats itself once more. (Note that during the first two rounds, King Galaxian's only means of attack when he's alone his vortex, which can suck Pacman into his mouth, and deal two points of damage.) After dealing with more Galaxian grunts, the King moves up again. Now, however, he will shoot at you with yellow energy. After another eye, more grunts will come out, this time with rainbow shields. Then, just one more eye, and it's finished. King Galaxian then turns bright red and explodes.
Pac-Man World Re-Pac[]
In Pac-Man World RePac, The spaceship and asteroids are the same but when Pac-Man gets to the other end of the huge space ship, Toc-Man appears and pulls the lever to activate King Galaxian in which the King then detaches from the ship and fights Pac-Man. The player must shoot all four eyes and taking out one of them is easier in RePac. King Galaxian alone shoots his tractor beam, which can suck Pacman into his mouth and the player must mash the button to break free. After Pacman shoots out one eye, the King descends and starts to use his tail to shoot a spread shot of 3 purple energy projectiles and Galaxian ships are summoned. Pac-Man needs to shoot at the tail until eventually King Galaxian resumes his original position repeats the tractor beam. After dealing damage to the second eye, the King releases a pair of claws and now, however, he will sometimes shoot at you a spread shot of 11 yellow energy projectiles and red Galaxian ships are summoned. Once resumes his original position, it now jab one of his claws at you before resorting to his tractor beam once again. After another eye, It shoot yellow energy projectiles from his tail all the time and now only red Galaxian ships are summoned. After shooting out one more eye, King Galaxian then turns bright yellow, and explodes into pieces.
Trivia[]
- The pupils in side King Galaxian's eyes are little arcade Pac-Man.
- If you look closely at King Galaxian's mouth, it is actually smiling.
- You can damage all four eyes in one round, but once you destroy just one, the other eyes will resume their bright red color.
- After you shoot out the first eye, and destroy the Galaxians, a pair of claws come out of King Galaxian. They return again on his third eye. It is unknown if these claws serve any purpose or not.
- In the game's remake, Pac-Man World Re-Pac, these claws exclusively come out after two of his eyes are shot out. This time, however, he'll use them to jab at you before resorting to his tractor beam once again.
- King Galaxian shoots out a beam and sucks Pac-Man inside to cause damage. This may be a reference to Namco's other arcade game, Galaga.