Defender
1981 · Arcade · WMS Industries
Defender is a 1981 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Williams Electronics for arcades. It was released in Japan by Taito. It is set on an unnamed planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defender was Jarvis's first video game project and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids. Defender was demonstrated in late 1980 and was released in March 1981. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Where to buy
- Loosecart or disc only from A$15.00
- Complete in boxbox and manual from A$25.00
- Sealedunopened from A$51.57
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Editions
The formats this game was pressed for. Years are the release for that platform where Wikidata records one — a blank year means the platform is documented but the date isn't.
- Arcade 1981
- Atari 2600 1981
- Atari 5200 1982
- Atari 8-bit 1982
- Entex Adventure Vision 1982
- Apple II 1983
- ColecoVision 1983
- Commodore 64 1983
- Commodore VIC-20 1983
- Intellivision 1983
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4A 1983
- Mac 1994
- Xbox 360 2006
- Game Boy Advance —
- GameCube —
- PlayStation 2 —
- Xbox —
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