Galaxian is officially the first video arcade game to produce true RGB color. It was the first game from Namco to run on a Zilog Z80 processor. And so in 1979, Galaxian arrived, and succeeded in stealing away some of the yen from Space Invaders thanks to its improvement in color technology and increased complexity. They decided that not only could they make a Space Invaders-type game, they could expand and improve upon the formula. Meanwhile, the manufacturing company known as Namco was experiencing their own success distributing arcade machines. In 1978, Japan's 100-yen coins were diverted away from the usual pachinko parlors to a little phenomenon known as Space Invaders.
