This game basically made my family's bank. Dad was a veep at Williams when this came out. Talk about exciting times. Had one in our basement along with other Williams machines. But Defender was by far the best.
I used to play it on an arcade machine in a game club when I was a kid, panel with 1 stick and 2 buttons - left for main weapon and right for special weapon (bomb). Bit more advanced graphics that this one, the ship rolls side to side when going up-down.
Can someone help me find a game, it's similar to this one, it's in space, you pick up power-ups - various weapons in the form of orbs (plasma, missiles, laser, orb that protects you, etc). Each power-up of the same kind upgrades your weapon up to a certain level. When you pick up a different one, you start from scratch. When you die you lose your poweru-ps so you have to pick them up again. You fight a cool boss in the end of each stage, one is big snake, if I remember correctly.
Great game! So it's not just me that thinks the red label is homocidal? Any idea how to tone it down a bit or if there's a saner version (red label is the only one I could get working, after downloading 'UI32')? I'm playing with a flippy flappy flightstick for a joystick, with smart, thrust and hyperspace all under my thumb at present, struggling to get past 30K on this thing - and I'm someone who clocked the original in the arcades on 5 occasions! Seriously wrong joystick for this... :o?
@bigglyguy . a joystick is going to be too sloopy. the panel i got off of ebay way back. the green label defender MAME ROM plays more like the typical arcade would.
@bigglyguy Yea you really need to get a new controller. I use a controller that I got from radio shack. It looks just like a ps2 controller. It is very responisive and you can map the keys anywhere you want to. I use L1 for Flip. R1 for thrust, X for fire, O for smart bomb and Square for hyperspace. I actually like it just as much or even better than the arcade. If you own a ps2 you can get midways arcade treasures which has defender 1-2 and you can modify the difficulty. Must be ps2 ver.
@theelusiveone Cheers. Reviews of Midway AT suggest the games are not original - but the Defender version is good, right? Proper sound effects and everything? If so I may be buying a PS2. Anyone want a 2nd hand X-Box..?
@bigglyguy They had a version for the ps1 and the ps2. The ps2 version feels and looks like it plays in the arcade. They did change the name to Defender 2. Maybe the reviews you read were for the ps1 version because that version was not good. Yes the game is very good on the ps2 and the sound and graphics are the same. You can get a ps2 cheap and modify it and play burned old games for free also. Have fun.
You passed the 4th wave has a 50K score which is good but no smart bombs you are doomed ! I feel envy I admit it because that's what I exactly how I want to play Defender and Stargate again....the control panel but I don't want a full arcade.Because I already have one (a NEO GEO). It was difficult for you to find the control panel?
@zombee38 Stargate sucked, Defendant was and is the best video game ever. The trick is to keep a few men after you save them from capture so it slows the pace down and you have time to react better.
One day when I make a lot of money I will find one of these and put it in the dining room corner!
I'm trying to find a game that's something like this. Except there were green dinosaurs that wandered on the ground turning the people into monsters. Does anyone know the name?
Ah ! The memories - the sounds - the frustration - the blisters on my hands ! This and Missile Command were my favourite games of the 80's and on the arcade setting would clock them and spend hours on them - thanks for posting !
You play like I do now, but back in the day when you could find this game all over the place, I used to go full speed, save the smart bombs, and not wait for any pod intersections. I used to kill the pods one by one. I am older too and you play a nice game.
I am watching this from the edge of my seat. 30 years later, and Defender is still the most intense videogame ever made. I feel sorry for the poor kids who don't know what a real video game is like.
@SirValor1177 Simple. A "real video game" is whatever cranky old Grampa Simpsons like me says it. It has to be something that came out waaaay back in "the good old days." We wax nostalgic about blisters and cramped hands, and how we always walked uphill to school every day...in five feet of snow...because life was hard back then, dagnabbit! Also, I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style of the time. Seriously, though, 80s arcade games had a different vibe than today's stuff.
I learned how to type because of Defender. My old man saw me play the game without looking @ any of the controls & talked me into taking typing as a result of it.
thing of beauty, played this when I was 6 with my football team, we would all crowd around to watch whoever was playing, there was only 2 machines in that bar..the poor old Gorf machine was neglected cos everyone loved Defender. I still remember how squishy the fire button was, it felt awesome. This guy is a great player btw.
I was truly addicted to this game and galaxians as a teen. Even the sound effects of defender are still mind blowing. . I would play truant from school just to play this bad ass. I would often steal to get cash to play it . I even tried to steal a table top version omg what was I like . Anyway thanks for the post
some didnt like defender or stargate, only because they couldnt play it, i mean you really had to have good, hand to eye coordination to master this game
After the original Taito Space Invaders, this game is the most addictive arcade shooter ever produced. I spend every penny on this game when I was 13/14. Marvellous.
We have a full sized cabinet in the basement just gathering dust now. but before we remodeled the basement my father would own at that game. I'd just stare at him in amazement seeing all the colours flash by. I kinda want to start it up again. if only we had more room in the house.
Man, that is a crash course for me, dude. You are a great Defender player. My high is only 50k, but I'm gonna go down to the basement and hit the XArcade console and play some Red Label Defender!! See if I can't at least make the 6 digit club. Thx bro!!
i loved this game, i clocked this game eight times in a row (thats 8 million+ in score) over 9 hours of continious play to be kicked out the of the shop. best 10p i ever spent. Awsome
This game was the best of all time still is in my view I remember the ol days of spending 20C and staying on it all day then nose at galaxy wars tried kicking us out cos thats all it made in 10 hours lol then he put a limiter on it hahaha clown
tis was an absolute classic game!!! i played the hell outta this when i was a kid! i'm 40 years old now and wish i had one of the full sized cabinets!
I'd love to have that set up - you can't beat the original control panel, although I remember my knuckles were a mess after playing that game for so long, and I would come out of the arcade shaking after a long session. The good old days!
Personally I always tried to keep more bombs in reserve, but each to his own.
oops.. i meant 'smart enough' to time the pod intesection. You could if you were that good in the day on the original . The screen would freak out for about 5 seconds and the swarmers would still come out. On the 5 pod waves you got 2 pods worth...
There's another freeze glitch. This one to the players benefit- pick up all 10 humanoids on firs wave and slam em in the ground.... the 'freeze' effect.
@blackhawkfan54 yea, used to love doin' that with the humanoids and then be cheeky and take a few baiters on for more points...hehe...man, makes me wanna play again ..
its always nice to see terra's and my searches for williams defender around these parts...
One thing I will say about the 'original' there were a ton of glitches not to the players benefit.
If you were 'smart' enough to split all pods at a pod intersection with a smart bomb, swarmers still came out- that lead to destroying everything by the 'original gurus'- one at a time - seen here. A defect that was fixed later- in Stargate.
@fast4panther ... i typed stargate defender into the youtube search ... and i think its the third seach result from the top ." STARGATE DEFENDER CLONE/REMAKE ... THIS GUY HAS THE LINK ON HIS VIDEO to download the game ... then you'll just need a game pad and you're off and flying....i'll be playing this game from now on .... I JUST LOVE IT .
Easily one of the best video games ever made, They will never make games like this again, I wish they would. Today's kids have NINTENDO, games are slow paced, have cheats, save features, but pure addictive game play was back in the day of DEFENDER. Drop a quarter in coin slot, then play your best. ( todays kids use cheats, save features, replay easy levels for extra lives, then brag how they mastered a video game. TRUE MASTERY WILL NEVER BE KNOWN AGAIN.
i just got this game for my cell phone and its awesome as hell!! the screen on my phone looks just excacly like the original arcade version.awesome game but kinda hard to master.1 shot and your dead wich makes it difficult,but it has these greate graphics.it gots this hyper bomb or something that when you press the * key destroys everything in the screen and give u an awesome light show!!and there an upted version in the game to wich fn rules too!!good music too,this game is badass
Wow it brings back great memorys. As an 80s champion of the
Mighty Defender Arcade game. I literaly Spent entire days from morning till eve on 1 credit blasting this game. only swapping briefly with a friend for a toilet stop or a bite. Then ditching the game becoz of closing time. I love this game.Long live Defender.
...takes me way back! I used to spend 10 pence (or 20 pence? UK Money) and be on there for hours! I actually clocked it at some stage during my arcade career! Would love to play it again!
...takes me way back! I used to spend 10 pence (or 20 pence? UK Money) and be on there for hours! I actually clocked it at some stage during my arcade career! Would love to play it again!
MAN its been a LONG time since I played that game! Back in the day, my best friend and I mastered that game, we'd play for hours on a single quarter. Of course we spent alot getting that good. We literally got so good that we could play as long as we could stand at the machines! Sounds like bragging I know but no BS we were that good. Used to make the arcaded owners mad when they'd see us come in because they knew they were going to loose money that night on Defender. Those were the days!
I know what you mean. I had two running partners and over the course of a year or so, after thousands of quarters we got so nobody we knew could touch us at Defender. It's funny to think about it now, but that kind of thing got you respect back then. Those were definitely good times.
i used to play this game and " clocked" it on many occasions, if i remember rightly after 999990every time you died you got another life and it was very difficult to die and leave the score at 999999! and for you coronation street fans my playing partner was dev (jim) and we used to play in the holloway road london
@lestershaw every time you score a point after 999,990 you earn a free ship and after you turn it over 1 million that would be the all the ships you had to carried you thru the rest of the game I know did it many times awesome game back in its day!
I would love to post a vid response of some defender action, however I only currently own the gameboy port of it, and its no where near as good as the version your playing :D
not bad man!... but i would av too question your use of the smart bomb so frequently!..love to get hold of the original acarde game in its original shell....any idea who might av one?...
Damn i am 40 now lol.. I must of been 15 when i played this at the arcade and my atari 800. Download games at 300 baud rate. Those were the days, us robotics 14.4 moden owned lol. 350 bux for it.. Bbs, imf headquarters ruled.
There's a whole generation who will never know what it is to play a video game without the safety net of a "save game" feature!
Molly-coddled and pampered!
They complain when they can't finish a game in 48 hours ("boohoo - even with cheats THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! WAHHH!! I WANT MY $60 BACK!!! BOO-HOO!!" .. etc)
I set the world record on this game back in the early 80's but not on this setting. I played for 60 plus hours on one quarter ended up with 76,300,000 something. I'm currently in second place.
Thanks! It was not easy I almost gave up several times. I will never forget those days as long as I live. I use to save my lunch money and go to the arcade until I master Defender. Then I would ride my bike to the other local arcades just to beat the high scores on Defender. I wrote Walter Day the man that keeps up with all the Records that I wanted to try to beat the record again but I can't do it now. I found....cont.
That was awesome! Reminded me of me back in my arcade loving hey day. My father owned a string of arcades and I had free plays on whatever games I chose. Defender was a favorite of mine. I was the best 11 year old Defender player around. AND I PLAYED A LOT OF DEFENDER! Your skillz are still sharp after all of these years!!! NICE WORK!
Cool man! Defender rocks! That's a great setup since PS2/3 emulation really doesn't work with such a baroque control panel. I can play pretty well but get pretty tired of the madness typically around 100k myself. I think my record high score one caffeinated afternoon still stands at 300k plus or something which is insane for me. I own the original game cabinet and will try to post someday.
All the chicks used to dig me and most of the guys were haters cos the game was so hard to play. i loved it back in the day. hated it when it went into hyperspace lol
@ryu174 5 buttons and a joystick. joystick for up & down. thumb button next to it for reverse. button in middle of panel for hyperspace. 3 right hand buttons - thumb for smart button and fire and thrust with the forefinger and middle finger. ain't played it for 30 yrs but i think that's correct.
There's a point in the landscape, if a mutant or swarmer is chasing you, when you cross a certain point in the terrain they reverse back and fly all the way around to planet to get back at you.
If you sit just the right side of this point you only need press reverse and up and down to avoid death.
Try it on an early level and you'll see what I mean.
i have heard about it, however with the game setting really high like in the video, they pop up all over you after about 50k, and you still have to clear stuff
I haven't played this game since I was 16. At my prime I would regularly play 8 or 9 hours on one quarter. When you hit 1,000,000 there is a glitch that gives you a free man and smart bomb with everything you hit. If I remember right it does this for the for 10,000 points after each 1,000,000.
This guy is good. I never used up my smart bombs effectively......just too many controls. Hyperspace was very risky. Between 1980 and 1986 I had over 15000 games on this at Flashback leisure centres, but I never got past 60000.
There were at least 3 of us back at Uni who could clock this machine. People tried to score exactly 999,975, which is hard as each time you crash scores 25. I remember carrying all 15 men and Baiters would always hyperspace because the machine could not handle it. Also, when carrying 15 men, you could fly off the top of the screen and come on again at the bottom, leaving a trail of men dangling in the air. Best game ever.
I remember playing this back in 1980 and being amazed at the sound effects. Never got to grips with it though. Too much going on. Proper stressed me out. It was quite expensive too and I didn't have much money. Used to get more play time out of Spaceys so I stuck with that. You're a good player though!
Oh and the first 2-3 waves u should do a rainbow, save all 10 humans and drops them in one go, does tempted baiters but u have to learn to deal with them to get good.
How did u get the panel, i have the playstation one version which in not a facimile of the code but the exact defender code. The joypad is ok and can be configured similar to the original panel but i want the panel. was thinking of dismantling a joypad and trying to hook up something from that.
i got 535K the other night on my standup. I was able to bust a million a few years ago (free smart/ship with each kill at 990K), but I can't seem to get to that level anymore. I was hooked on this game in 1983. The quest to roll it over again keeps the drive going. Best arcade game ever IMO!!
oh man so much memories for me, spend 25 cents coins and this was in Barbados in the early 80s. We would rush from school over to this local shop that had one in there and spend the whole lunch hour just playing Defender. I just turned 40 years old in June 2009.
I used to watch a guy playing this over 20 years ago, he could wrap the score counter right round and it reset back to zero. He was the best I ever saw at it.
His strategy, first and foremost was to save the humanoids, nothing else matters.
He would catch the last humanoid whilst falling and *not* put it back on the ground.
He would even sacrifice a ship to save the humanoids.
I loved this game as a kid, it still kicks ass! I have it on Playstaion 2, but its not the same with the pad. where did you get the original control pannel??
My buddy Mike just rebuilt mine, looks /works like brand new.
redhot916spd 5 days ago
This game scared me as a kid...so damn hard....
Love how many of the same sounds are in Robotron.
larrytate555 2 weeks ago
This game is addictive!
arklat 3 weeks ago
I dare think of how many quarters I put in Defender machines from '83-'86.
Springbok295 3 months ago
This game basically made my family's bank. Dad was a veep at Williams when this came out. Talk about exciting times. Had one in our basement along with other Williams machines. But Defender was by far the best.
unclebobunclebob 3 months ago
gotta learn to reverse more dude, good game
Redliner500 3 months ago
i played this game so much in 82/83 i had HUGE calouses on my thumb from reversing............ GO DEFENDER!!!
Redliner500 3 months ago
wow you are a great defender......
JAF69 4 months ago
Excellent video and setup.
theelusiveone 4 months ago
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I used to play it on an arcade machine in a game club when I was a kid, panel with 1 stick and 2 buttons - left for main weapon and right for special weapon (bomb). Bit more advanced graphics that this one, the ship rolls side to side when going up-down.
Any help is appreciated.
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Can someone help me find a game, it's similar to this one, it's in space, you pick up power-ups - various weapons in the form of orbs (plasma, missiles, laser, orb that protects you, etc). Each power-up of the same kind upgrades your weapon up to a certain level. When you pick up a different one, you start from scratch. When you die you lose your poweru-ps so you have to pick them up again. You fight a cool boss in the end of each stage, one is big snake, if I remember correctly.
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mrkb2k 5 months ago
Great game! So it's not just me that thinks the red label is homocidal? Any idea how to tone it down a bit or if there's a saner version (red label is the only one I could get working, after downloading 'UI32')? I'm playing with a flippy flappy flightstick for a joystick, with smart, thrust and hyperspace all under my thumb at present, struggling to get past 30K on this thing - and I'm someone who clocked the original in the arcades on 5 occasions! Seriously wrong joystick for this... :o?
bigglyguy 5 months ago
@bigglyguy . a joystick is going to be too sloopy. the panel i got off of ebay way back. the green label defender MAME ROM plays more like the typical arcade would.
terrablader 5 months ago
@bigglyguy Yea you really need to get a new controller. I use a controller that I got from radio shack. It looks just like a ps2 controller. It is very responisive and you can map the keys anywhere you want to. I use L1 for Flip. R1 for thrust, X for fire, O for smart bomb and Square for hyperspace. I actually like it just as much or even better than the arcade. If you own a ps2 you can get midways arcade treasures which has defender 1-2 and you can modify the difficulty. Must be ps2 ver.
theelusiveone 4 months ago
@theelusiveone Do not get the midway ps1 version cause the controls are horrible. Good luck.
theelusiveone 4 months ago
@theelusiveone Cheers. Reviews of Midway AT suggest the games are not original - but the Defender version is good, right? Proper sound effects and everything? If so I may be buying a PS2. Anyone want a 2nd hand X-Box..?
bigglyguy 4 months ago
@bigglyguy They had a version for the ps1 and the ps2. The ps2 version feels and looks like it plays in the arcade. They did change the name to Defender 2. Maybe the reviews you read were for the ps1 version because that version was not good. Yes the game is very good on the ps2 and the sound and graphics are the same. You can get a ps2 cheap and modify it and play burned old games for free also. Have fun.
theelusiveone 4 months ago
If I had a nickel for every quarter I spent on that machine...
davidls11 5 months ago
You passed the 4th wave has a 50K score which is good but no smart bombs you are doomed ! I feel envy I admit it because that's what I exactly how I want to play Defender and Stargate again....the control panel but I don't want a full arcade.Because I already have one (a NEO GEO). It was difficult for you to find the control panel?
zombee38 5 months ago
@zombee38 Stargate sucked, Defendant was and is the best video game ever. The trick is to keep a few men after you save them from capture so it slows the pace down and you have time to react better.
One day when I make a lot of money I will find one of these and put it in the dining room corner!
KingCastFranconia 5 months ago
Thanks for the memories.
almostconcerned 5 months ago
Man I remember walking home from Southdale with raw knuckles on my left hand from playing this thing. Nice game, thanks for the vid.
cipherepoch 7 months ago
I'm trying to find a game that's something like this. Except there were green dinosaurs that wandered on the ground turning the people into monsters. Does anyone know the name?
RBEO22 7 months ago
Ah ! The memories - the sounds - the frustration - the blisters on my hands ! This and Missile Command were my favourite games of the 80's and on the arcade setting would clock them and spend hours on them - thanks for posting !
bumbu666 8 months ago
my friend used to have this arcade game at his house. it was fucking awesome!
mandy26lez 8 months ago
That's not the original panel, that's a Stargate panel which is the sequel to Defender.
HektikHomeVideos 9 months ago
Got to watch that lander it will always throw that last second bullet at you and get you almost everytime!!
GetAtMe747 9 months ago
Man I use to get 1,000,000 alot on Defender around 950,000 everything you destroy is a free man its still my favorite!!!
GetAtMe747 9 months ago
You play like I do now, but back in the day when you could find this game all over the place, I used to go full speed, save the smart bombs, and not wait for any pod intersections. I used to kill the pods one by one. I am older too and you play a nice game.
TheTalkeetna1 9 months ago
I surrender!!!
dosvsoperator 9 months ago
And of course had I read the full description I would not have inquired if U'd flipped it.
I have no clue the difficulty that the machine was set @, but I had much fun!
Timothy
:o)
timthehippie 9 months ago
What I would like 2 know is if U have ever flipped the arcade game. I have on 2 seperate occaisions in SF during the 80z
timthehippie 9 months ago
I really enjoyed this; it does take me back; I used to do about as well.
SatchmoSings 10 months ago
I am watching this from the edge of my seat. 30 years later, and Defender is still the most intense videogame ever made. I feel sorry for the poor kids who don't know what a real video game is like.
gamesDAMNED 10 months ago
@gamesDAMNED Can I ask what a real video game is like?
SirValor1177 10 months ago
@SirValor1177 Simple. A "real video game" is whatever cranky old Grampa Simpsons like me says it. It has to be something that came out waaaay back in "the good old days." We wax nostalgic about blisters and cramped hands, and how we always walked uphill to school every day...in five feet of snow...because life was hard back then, dagnabbit! Also, I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style of the time. Seriously, though, 80s arcade games had a different vibe than today's stuff.
gamesDAMNED 9 months ago
You ROCK!!!
1DeathWalkingTerror1 10 months ago
0:30 does he give a 'yeah boys I STILL got i' hand motion?
SCBianchi 10 months ago
prolly one of the best sounding games made back then all high tec stereophonic crazyness
Jammin6796 10 months ago
Can you please tell me how I can purchase a control panel like that
Cheers
megaphoneorange 10 months ago
This is the most intense Defender play I have seen since I saw the lead singer for REO Speedwagon playing Defender in a Pizzeria in the 70s.
drsevrin100 11 months ago
3 and a half million here hi-score uk on white
indydaisy1 11 months ago
Nice shooting! I always thought Defender had the coolest sounds of any arcade game. Really brings me back to the good old days...
strif109 11 months ago
I learned how to type because of Defender. My old man saw me play the game without looking @ any of the controls & talked me into taking typing as a result of it.
Catface91 11 months ago
thing of beauty, played this when I was 6 with my football team, we would all crowd around to watch whoever was playing, there was only 2 machines in that bar..the poor old Gorf machine was neglected cos everyone loved Defender. I still remember how squishy the fire button was, it felt awesome. This guy is a great player btw.
shaguar1 1 year ago
I was truly addicted to this game and galaxians as a teen. Even the sound effects of defender are still mind blowing. . I would play truant from school just to play this bad ass. I would often steal to get cash to play it . I even tried to steal a table top version omg what was I like . Anyway thanks for the post
goldreaper 1 year ago
i loved playing defender...back in the day
2005yzfr1 1 year ago
some didnt like defender or stargate, only because they couldnt play it, i mean you really had to have good, hand to eye coordination to master this game
dogghead111 1 year ago
After the original Taito Space Invaders, this game is the most addictive arcade shooter ever produced. I spend every penny on this game when I was 13/14. Marvellous.
delmonti 1 year ago
Woah, this game is older than i am and i still think its one of the most epic thing ever. It must have been crazy to play this when it came out.
EvilMaxWar 1 year ago
Nice shootin' Tex......
cornz38 1 year ago
after 30 years i still love defender or stargate, i would past by all the other acrade games,
dogghead111 1 year ago
it's still the most awesome video game of all time..
bluefox9er 1 year ago
Cool, BTW I have a 1983 Balley-Midway Spy Hunter machine in working condition!
IceRamps 1 year ago
We have a full sized cabinet in the basement just gathering dust now. but before we remodeled the basement my father would own at that game. I'd just stare at him in amazement seeing all the colours flash by. I kinda want to start it up again. if only we had more room in the house.
WhiteShadowZO 1 year ago
what a badass game this was. great times down the arcade.
bigmaxy07 1 year ago
LOL'd @ 5:43 - "GO MOTHERFUCKER"!! hahahahah
CrouchingPoo 1 year ago
I wish this game had a pause button back in the day. Love those sound effects.
rotarydialz 1 year ago
Man, that is a crash course for me, dude. You are a great Defender player. My high is only 50k, but I'm gonna go down to the basement and hit the XArcade console and play some Red Label Defender!! See if I can't at least make the 6 digit club. Thx bro!!
Dawzell 1 year ago
defo the best vid game ever!
robbykhu 1 year ago
Awesome post - ty - reminds me of my good years as a teen at the local arcade.
951Alpha 1 year ago
i loved this game, i clocked this game eight times in a row (thats 8 million+ in score) over 9 hours of continious play to be kicked out the of the shop. best 10p i ever spent. Awsome
jazsarl 1 year ago
This game was the best of all time still is in my view I remember the ol days of spending 20C and staying on it all day then nose at galaxy wars tried kicking us out cos thats all it made in 10 hours lol then he put a limiter on it hahaha clown
pokapudusty 1 year ago
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tis was an absolute classic game!!! i played the hell outta this when i was a kid! i'm 40 years old now and wish i had one of the full sized cabinets!
jelani96 1 year ago
tis was an absolute classic game!!! i played the hell outta this when i was a kid! i'm 40 years old now and wish i hadone of the full sized cabinets!
jelani96 1 year ago
I can't watch...it makes me involuntarilly search for quarters and feel like I am waiting my turn... oh, and BEST GAME EVER!
alexdroogie100 1 year ago
Wow I didn't realize this was a 1980 arcade game. It was released for the nes 8 years later with the exact same graphics.
Luigi84289 1 year ago
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hubbahwah 1 year ago
My absolute favourite game ever.
Used to play it in the local arcade yet most people there didn't really like it,.
Would love to own a real fullsize cabinet, but they go for serious money :(
Might think about building a replica panel tho.
Always loved the sound effects and the intensity on Defender
UrgentementeUK 1 year ago
Some brilliant playing ... you are VERY good at dealing with those damn baiters.
nightowl8936 1 year ago
Defender has THE BEST SOUNDS of any game from it's generation.
cryogeneric 1 year ago
@cryogeneric
The sounds in just about all the Williams games are badass...except for Bubbles, but I can forgive them for that
AJtheory 1 year ago
Great game, with capital G. I played and spent a lot of quarters, thanks for remaining it!!!
GRACIASMANDELA 1 year ago
Dude...you can play!
jakehamilton67 1 year ago
Yes greatest game ever, That is why I did a remake. Check it out!
playniax 1 year ago
This game is very difficult for me.
I love the sound of this game.
xenonbally 1 year ago
the king of games!!!
TheDezzo777 1 year ago
Gotta love those Pods and Swarmers!
oldies1976 1 year ago
That is on the harder setting!
I'd love to have that set up - you can't beat the original control panel, although I remember my knuckles were a mess after playing that game for so long, and I would come out of the arcade shaking after a long session. The good old days!
Personally I always tried to keep more bombs in reserve, but each to his own.
Thanks for posting the video.
Spaceman042 1 year ago
where did you get the original panel from (stick and button panel)
scorpio1066 1 year ago
how can I get one of those hook-ups like u have ?
waldopeppa 1 year ago
Beat that level of difficulty 'Halo Reach'
bruceleeC64 1 year ago
Dunno if it's me, but when you explode the 1000 pointer on L2, and the red spaceships pop out, it seemed really slow compared to what i remember.
played it on Mame emulator and its faster there too ..
Clocking it, 1,000,000 was the way some kids were always on it, a man every point after 990,000 .. theyd be on it all day for 10 pence.
Ace game though, and what, thrust,rev,Smart.B, and hyperspace, fire, wow, what a game, they just don't make em like that now eh
FredCBP 1 year ago
Defender was the best!
M3NTA7 1 year ago
best sound of any game
ThaddeusRobe 1 year ago 2
It gives me great joy to see this :)
echo1v 1 year ago
Best Spacies game of all time, period. Nice playing man.
seekah1 1 year ago
Nice job killing off those swarmers! By the way, many people thought they were called "Briters," instead of "Baiters!" Graphics of the 80s....
abysmalatrocious 1 year ago
oops.. i meant 'smart enough' to time the pod intesection. You could if you were that good in the day on the original . The screen would freak out for about 5 seconds and the swarmers would still come out. On the 5 pod waves you got 2 pods worth...
There's another freeze glitch. This one to the players benefit- pick up all 10 humanoids on firs wave and slam em in the ground.... the 'freeze' effect.
blackhawkfan54 1 year ago
@blackhawkfan54 yea, used to love doin' that with the humanoids and then be cheeky and take a few baiters on for more points...hehe...man, makes me wanna play again ..
gabsmabs62 1 year ago
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blackhawkfan54 1 year ago
its always nice to see terra's and my searches for williams defender around these parts...
One thing I will say about the 'original' there were a ton of glitches not to the players benefit.
If you were 'smart' enough to split all pods at a pod intersection with a smart bomb, swarmers still came out- that lead to destroying everything by the 'original gurus'- one at a time - seen here. A defect that was fixed later- in Stargate.
blackhawkfan54 1 year ago
@fast4panther ... i typed stargate defender into the youtube search ... and i think its the third seach result from the top ." STARGATE DEFENDER CLONE/REMAKE ... THIS GUY HAS THE LINK ON HIS VIDEO to download the game ... then you'll just need a game pad and you're off and flying....i'll be playing this game from now on .... I JUST LOVE IT .
thegoodsuun 1 year ago
Awesome, can't believe I watched the whole thing! I once got about 50K back in the day - that was my highest score.
ak47wong 1 year ago
Easily one of the best video games ever made, They will never make games like this again, I wish they would. Today's kids have NINTENDO, games are slow paced, have cheats, save features, but pure addictive game play was back in the day of DEFENDER. Drop a quarter in coin slot, then play your best. ( todays kids use cheats, save features, replay easy levels for extra lives, then brag how they mastered a video game. TRUE MASTERY WILL NEVER BE KNOWN AGAIN.
fast4panther 1 year ago 2
i just got this game for my cell phone and its awesome as hell!! the screen on my phone looks just excacly like the original arcade version.awesome game but kinda hard to master.1 shot and your dead wich makes it difficult,but it has these greate graphics.it gots this hyper bomb or something that when you press the * key destroys everything in the screen and give u an awesome light show!!and there an upted version in the game to wich fn rules too!!good music too,this game is badass
MaskedRider83 1 year ago
Wow it brings back great memorys. As an 80s champion of the
Mighty Defender Arcade game. I literaly Spent entire days from morning till eve on 1 credit blasting this game. only swapping briefly with a friend for a toilet stop or a bite. Then ditching the game becoz of closing time. I love this game.Long live Defender.
amethystdreamarian 1 year ago 2
Thats awesome man !!
Roger161 1 year ago
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...takes me way back! I used to spend 10 pence (or 20 pence? UK Money) and be on there for hours! I actually clocked it at some stage during my arcade career! Would love to play it again!
reidy68 1 year ago
...takes me way back! I used to spend 10 pence (or 20 pence? UK Money) and be on there for hours! I actually clocked it at some stage during my arcade career! Would love to play it again!
reidy68 1 year ago
great game !!! i use to play this after school !!! a friend had the portable game . . .
MrMomentum99 1 year ago
Invested all my paper route money into this game at the age of 13. No regrets
DudeMrShadow 1 year ago
I just wanted to thank you for defending us from the Alien attacks! Well done!
greenjeansmjr 1 year ago
I could around 300k back in the day.
Ireg2post1 1 year ago
this game was great in it's day.
sgreen4 1 year ago
MAN its been a LONG time since I played that game! Back in the day, my best friend and I mastered that game, we'd play for hours on a single quarter. Of course we spent alot getting that good. We literally got so good that we could play as long as we could stand at the machines! Sounds like bragging I know but no BS we were that good. Used to make the arcaded owners mad when they'd see us come in because they knew they were going to loose money that night on Defender. Those were the days!
WATERDOG300 1 year ago
@WATERDOG300
I know what you mean. I had two running partners and over the course of a year or so, after thousands of quarters we got so nobody we knew could touch us at Defender. It's funny to think about it now, but that kind of thing got you respect back then. Those were definitely good times.
volumecorps 1 year ago
you play like a KING!
jagdevsg 1 year ago
This game was early video game genius and you play well!
anderson401 1 year ago
i used to play this game and " clocked" it on many occasions, if i remember rightly after 999990every time you died you got another life and it was very difficult to die and leave the score at 999999! and for you coronation street fans my playing partner was dev (jim) and we used to play in the holloway road london
lestershaw 1 year ago
@lestershaw every time you score a point after 999,990 you earn a free ship and after you turn it over 1 million that would be the all the ships you had to carried you thru the rest of the game I know did it many times awesome game back in its day!
CRAZYCRADER 1 year ago
this game still looks and sounds awesome. So futuristic and way ahead of its time. Very intense. Fuckin great job man!
ufoseverywhere 1 year ago
I was about ten when I was playing this cafe-bar. The place was a small town called crystal near the Russian border.
Thule2000 1 year ago
I was about ten when I was playing this cafe-bar. The place was a small town called Kitee near the Russian border.
Thule2000 1 year ago
I would love to post a vid response of some defender action, however I only currently own the gameboy port of it, and its no where near as good as the version your playing :D
grimzreapersunage 1 year ago
Loved watching you play this game :D
I miss it so much
grimzreapersunage 1 year ago
not bad man!... but i would av too question your use of the smart bomb so frequently!..love to get hold of the original acarde game in its original shell....any idea who might av one?...
outlawhansolo007 1 year ago
Damn i am 40 now lol.. I must of been 15 when i played this at the arcade and my atari 800. Download games at 300 baud rate. Those were the days, us robotics 14.4 moden owned lol. 350 bux for it.. Bbs, imf headquarters ruled.
jizzbot2000 1 year ago
This and Robotron are like the spiritual leaders of games history. Beating these games takes a different class of skill.
vapourmile 1 year ago
@vapourmile
You said it.
There's a whole generation who will never know what it is to play a video game without the safety net of a "save game" feature!
Molly-coddled and pampered!
They complain when they can't finish a game in 48 hours ("boohoo - even with cheats THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! WAHHH!! I WANT MY $60 BACK!!! BOO-HOO!!" .. etc)
jazzx251 1 year ago
i have this machine its so cool
mandy26lez 2 years ago
I set the world record on this game back in the early 80's but not on this setting. I played for 60 plus hours on one quarter ended up with 76,300,000 something. I'm currently in second place.
Justfor2day10 2 years ago
@Justfor2day10 Wow! :) You're so awesome, I wish I could have experienced arcade culture back then.
hatchedarea 2 years ago
Thanks! It was not easy I almost gave up several times. I will never forget those days as long as I live. I use to save my lunch money and go to the arcade until I master Defender. Then I would ride my bike to the other local arcades just to beat the high scores on Defender. I wrote Walter Day the man that keeps up with all the Records that I wanted to try to beat the record again but I can't do it now. I found....cont.
Justfor2day10 2 years ago
That was awesome! Reminded me of me back in my arcade loving hey day. My father owned a string of arcades and I had free plays on whatever games I chose. Defender was a favorite of mine. I was the best 11 year old Defender player around. AND I PLAYED A LOT OF DEFENDER! Your skillz are still sharp after all of these years!!! NICE WORK!
Redlamp8 2 years ago
Cool man! Defender rocks! That's a great setup since PS2/3 emulation really doesn't work with such a baroque control panel. I can play pretty well but get pretty tired of the madness typically around 100k myself. I think my record high score one caffeinated afternoon still stands at 300k plus or something which is insane for me. I own the original game cabinet and will try to post someday.
skootaboy1978 2 years ago
awsome dude, how the hell did you get an original panel?
puskin66 2 years ago
Unreal.
This was an awesome game to play as a stoned 8th grader back in the day.
oakeysmokey 2 years ago
All the chicks used to dig me and most of the guys were haters cos the game was so hard to play. i loved it back in the day. hated it when it went into hyperspace lol
peacebuntou 2 years ago
Game play was amazing.
MrDanielmichaels 2 years ago
man i loved that game, was the best arcade games in its day. where did you get that?
tizwazz 2 years ago
Damn this game was so fucking hard.
gears2boomshield 2 years ago
i noticed you don't use the reverse button much, and you master the thrust controls very well. nice.
lmr641 2 years ago
The coolest game!
BUT, NOT the original machine!
Bluestone365 2 years ago
My dad has one of these originals in his basement. He worked for Williams. I was never this good.
unclebobunclebob 2 years ago
this machine realy has realy5butons?what all it do?
ryu174 2 years ago
joystick control; for up/down. buttons; fire, reverse, smart bombs, thrust, and hyperspace
lmr641 2 years ago
@ryu174 5 buttons and a joystick. joystick for up & down. thumb button next to it for reverse. button in middle of panel for hyperspace. 3 right hand buttons - thumb for smart button and fire and thrust with the forefinger and middle finger. ain't played it for 30 yrs but i think that's correct.
gabsmabs62 1 year ago
You should also use the "date line" trick.
There's a point in the landscape, if a mutant or swarmer is chasing you, when you cross a certain point in the terrain they reverse back and fly all the way around to planet to get back at you.
If you sit just the right side of this point you only need press reverse and up and down to avoid death.
Try it on an early level and you'll see what I mean.
nickbaldeagle01 2 years ago
i have heard about it, however with the game setting really high like in the video, they pop up all over you after about 50k, and you still have to clear stuff
terrablader 2 years ago
@nickbaldeagle01 Hmmm, that's interesting. I'll have to try that next trip I take to the arcade.
Straigo 1 year ago
Not bad. But I bet you can't put a Rowntree's fruit pastille in your mouth without chewing it...
nickbaldeagle01 2 years ago
great sound affects and music
oakstosler 2 years ago
I never got over 300,000.
nightflight83 2 years ago
I haven't played this game since I was 16. At my prime I would regularly play 8 or 9 hours on one quarter. When you hit 1,000,000 there is a glitch that gives you a free man and smart bomb with everything you hit. If I remember right it does this for the for 10,000 points after each 1,000,000.
phroney 2 years ago
That's not a glitch. That's an Easter egg.
The programmers never thought anyone
would reach that level but people did including my self. That was a very hard game to master.
FYI it will repeat at 2 million and so on,
everything you hit for 10k points will give you a free man at each 990,000 level.
txgiorgi 2 years ago
This was the only videogame I really loved to play. But you are sooo much better than I ever was!
Well done!
hd474 2 years ago
this guy must of went through a million quarters in his day.
jimdaddy65 2 years ago
Nice dodging, gotta save those humanoids though man!
I grew up with this game, my Dad bought it before I was born and he still has it in the garage. He'd score 1mil+... such an intense game!
macintoshperforma631 2 years ago
I find not using Smart Bomb to be a fun challenge Just using Hyperspace and skill It's hard but it's good practice
ninelivecat 2 years ago
I remember playing this game a lot at SuperTrack. I was better at the other one that was like this one & funny though I can't remember the name.
argent2020 2 years ago
Stargate maybe?
That was Defender 2. I play it a ton on my 2600 now.
kurisux 2 years ago
This guy is good. I never used up my smart bombs effectively......just too many controls. Hyperspace was very risky. Between 1980 and 1986 I had over 15000 games on this at Flashback leisure centres, but I never got past 60000.
stegaflaps 2 years ago
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robx78 2 years ago
There were at least 3 of us back at Uni who could clock this machine. People tried to score exactly 999,975, which is hard as each time you crash scores 25. I remember carrying all 15 men and Baiters would always hyperspace because the machine could not handle it. Also, when carrying 15 men, you could fly off the top of the screen and come on again at the bottom, leaving a trail of men dangling in the air. Best game ever.
robx78 2 years ago
I remember playing this back in 1980 and being amazed at the sound effects. Never got to grips with it though. Too much going on. Proper stressed me out. It was quite expensive too and I didn't have much money. Used to get more play time out of Spaceys so I stuck with that. You're a good player though!
doncool001 2 years ago
Oh and the first 2-3 waves u should do a rainbow, save all 10 humans and drops them in one go, does tempted baiters but u have to learn to deal with them to get good.
celermentis 2 years ago
How did u get the panel, i have the playstation one version which in not a facimile of the code but the exact defender code. The joypad is ok and can be configured similar to the original panel but i want the panel. was thinking of dismantling a joypad and trying to hook up something from that.
celermentis 2 years ago
Looks Like A Midway Strikeforce Panel ?
ninelivecat 2 years ago
I download MAME just to get the sounds for my ipod.
rotarydialz 2 years ago
i got 535K the other night on my standup. I was able to bust a million a few years ago (free smart/ship with each kill at 990K), but I can't seem to get to that level anymore. I was hooked on this game in 1983. The quest to roll it over again keeps the drive going. Best arcade game ever IMO!!
Defendermaniac 2 years ago
oh man so much memories for me, spend 25 cents coins and this was in Barbados in the early 80s. We would rush from school over to this local shop that had one in there and spend the whole lunch hour just playing Defender. I just turned 40 years old in June 2009.
zandaphotographycom 2 years ago
you iz da shit. respect.
thegafferlives 2 years ago
I used to watch a guy playing this over 20 years ago, he could wrap the score counter right round and it reset back to zero. He was the best I ever saw at it.
His strategy, first and foremost was to save the humanoids, nothing else matters.
He would catch the last humanoid whilst falling and *not* put it back on the ground.
He would even sacrifice a ship to save the humanoids.
HHRich 2 years ago
Well done. This is back when video games had a pair and a sack.
spankula123 2 years ago
I'm proud to say that my dad turned over the score counter on defender during his college days. Probably the coolest thing he's ever done.
zharnotczar 2 years ago
I loved this game as a kid, it still kicks ass! I have it on Playstaion 2, but its not the same with the pad. where did you get the original control pannel??
djphil2000 2 years ago
...memories of 7-eleven taking all my quarters when I was in high school...lol
jm64d 2 years ago