The Namco Galaxian hardware was widely used by other game companies during the golden age of arcade video games, including Centuri, Gremlin, Irem, Konami, Midway, Nichibutsu, SEGA, and Taito, as well as bootleg manufacturers. Namco Galaxian also introduced a sprite line buffer system, which was adopted by later arcade system boards from other companies. Its introduction of colorful tilemap graphics distinguished it from the Taito 8080 monochrome framebuffer system of Space Invaders.
It used specialized graphics hardware supporting RGB color, multi-colored sprites and tilemap backgrounds. The Namco Galaxian is an 8-bit, two-dimensional, arcade system board, that was first used by Namco in 1979. For the specific arcade game, see Galaxian. This article is a generic description of Namco's 'Galaxian' hardware.
