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That clip up top is the real Galactic Attack — the actual Sega Saturn game. Grab the free RetroPlayers.Club Player and it runs full-speed on your PC, no cartridge required.
Galactic Attack
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Galactic Attack can be relived on your own PC through the free RetroPlayers.Club Player app — full speed, with a controller and saves just like your hardware. You confirm you own the game from your library, and no need to connect your console.
🎮 USB or Bluetooth controller? Plug it in, Once Detected Click Here to Open Your Controller Options
| Action | Keyboard | Controller |
|---|---|---|
| D-Pad Up | ↑ | D-Pad up |
| D-Pad Down | ↓ | D-Pad down |
| D-Pad Left | ← | D-Pad left |
| D-Pad Right | → | D-Pad right |
| B (bottom) | X | Bottom face |
| A (right) | Z | Right face |
| Y (left) | S | Left face |
| X (top) | A | Top face |
| L | Q | Left shoulder |
| R | E | Right shoulder |
| Start | Enter | Start |
| Select | V | Select |
🎮 Sega Saturn controls
These are the keys the RetroPlayers.Club Player app uses for Sega Saturn, shown for reference. Your controller still lights up below so you can confirm it is detected — Premium members can remap here (keyboard or USB controller) and the app applies the map at the next launch.
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Press buttons — your controller lights up here so you can see it is detected. Go Premium to save a custom map.
| Action | Keyboard | Controller |
|---|---|---|
| Up | W | D-Pad up |
| Down | S | D-Pad down |
| Left | A | D-Pad left |
| Right | D | D-Pad right |
| A | J | Left face |
| B | K | Middle face |
| C | L | Right face |
| X | U | Top-left face |
| Y | I | Top-middle face |
| Z | O | Top-right face |
| L | Q | Left shoulder |
| R | E | Right shoulder |
| Start | F | Start |
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Galactic Attack is a 1980 space combat simulator video game written by Robert Woodhead for the Apple II and published by the company he co-founded, Siro-Tech. It is a single-player adaptation of the game Empire from the PLATO mainframe network.
How to Play Galactic Attack
The RetroPlayers.Club Player ships with Galactic Attack already mapped — the layout below is the default, and Controller Mapping in the app rebinds any of it.
The Story Behind Galactic Attack
Here is where Galactic Attack came from and how it reached the Sega Saturn.
Galactic Attack was written with UCSD Pascal. Siro-Tech was renamed to Sir-Tech and followed-up Galactic Attack with the more commercially successful Wizardry which was inspired by the PLATO system dungeon crawl games Oubliette and Moria.
What You'll Play
Galactic Attack is a retro game for 1 player, played full-speed in the free RetroPlayers.Club Player with its Controller Mapping panel.
In Galactic Attack, the player's job is to liberate the Solar System from the dreaded Kazanta invaders by destroying the Kzanta's ships and bombarding the Kzanta's forces on the planets of the solar system and then beaming down armies to secure the planets. The game's framing uses the same loose Star Trek framing as Empire; the universe is two dimensional, with the user's starship placed in the center of their tactical screen. Weapons were fired on compass bearings by typing in degree headings.
Ships have phasers which fire in a cone, with damage proportionate to distance, a limited number of torpedoes that can be in flight at any given time and which proceed in a straight line until they hit a target or time out, deflector shields, a range of warp speeds, and a limited energy supply that slowly automatically regenerates.
Why It Still Hits
Galactic Attack is a retro game that Sega Saturn players still load up; the reviews and rankings below say why.
Webster reviewed Galactic Attack in The Space Gamer No. If gives you far more for your money than a lot of other games costing the same. Dick Richards reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, stating that "As this is a real time game, it demands quick thinking — indecision can be fatal — because the computer controlled Kzinti never hesitates".
Background sources: Wikipedia.
Galactic Attack — Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to download anything to play Galactic Attack?
Yes — Sega Saturn games run in the RetroPlayers.Club Player desktop app, a quick free download. The video on this page is real Galactic Attack gameplay so you know exactly what you are getting before you install.
Can I remap the controls in Galactic Attack?
Absolutely. Inside the app, Controller Mapping lets you change every Galactic Attack binding to whatever keyboard keys or pad buttons you prefer.
Can I play Galactic Attack with a friend?
Galactic Attack supports local versus and drop-in 2-player in the RetroPlayers.Club Player, and Premium members can play online too.
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