Defender (Atari 2600) (How To Beat Home Video Games 1)

[blade004]

You "can't" beat Defender :( I stayed home from school one day in the 80's and played Defender on the 2600 for about 10 hours straight on the one game with a friend with a score that was through the roof and a whole stack of lives. I was so good at it that day that i couldn't die so i just wrote down the score and turned it off.

[rhiannon650]

you have a voice for documentaries or educational videos such as where did i come from or bears in fhe wild something that was recorded in the 70s

[MrMethadrine]

omg its pathetic.I wonder how we played such crap.

[pcvideogamer]

@MrMethadrine it's called... having an imagination, sorry we couldn't transport the gaming technology of the future to the present day just so we could impress dwerbs like you.

[pvtchapman1beer]

Do these aliens follow the rules of war? no bombing civilian cities or some shit? good thing that red mutant isn't as kamikaze as the japs or towel heads, they would deff pull some 9/11 shit for you trying to hide among the innocent, lol, thank god for law abiding aliens!

[matt165165]

its sad that this game and the second one is better than the next gen one for ps2

[southport97]

I hated the 2600 version because you hat to fly all the way to the bottom just to do the smart bomb. lol back then people were so desperate to play video games they would settle for anything other than pong.

[trr321321]

I loved this game. Spent many hours and got good at it. Addictive.

[donboy65]

The arcade versions didn't have a city for the background, just a mountain like valley.

[xFallenAnjelx]

This was my favourite game EVER for Atari ! I was playing for like what seemed HOURS one time and was about to roll the score keeper over to 0000000 again (1 million?) and my Dad comes in all pissed about something and gets mad because the light wasn't on (Since I had been playing for hours, I couldn't get up and turn the light on when it got dark since there was no pause on these game back then! LOL). Well, being about 15 at the time... CON'T IN NEXT POST......

[xFallenAnjelx]

CON'T FROM ABOVE.....(OR BELOW)... it didn't occur to me to NOT plug the game into the outlet that the wall switch controls. So when Dad tried to turn the light on via the wall switch........ POOF ! There goes my 960,000 point-6 hour game ! I never again tried to get a million points, LOL..

[braincrisp1]

God I hat pods...

[daafies2]

Great tips!

[creepske]

and if you play defender i could be your hyper space!!

[sexykitten0627]

This was my favorite game to play from atari. I kicked ass at it.

[classicgamer1968]

Even though 2600 Defender was loosely based on the arcade game, everyone I knew got addicted to this. I spent an entire summer playing this and still play it occassionally. The Atari 8-bit version REALLy rocked!

[bjggjb]

Only an inbred, genetically degenerate retarded banjo-playing hillbilly with three rotting teeth would need instructions to "beat" this sad-sack port of that great (and VERY challenging) arcade classic, Defender. The first day I had this cartridge (1982), well... unlike the arcade game (which I maxed out at 150,000 points, my personal record) I could sit and play one game of this goofy, bastardized Atari version for hours on end, until my eyes glazed over and I got a charley horse in my thumb.

[djhuso]

Played this one a lot as a child :)

[BobHeyHal]

zerei esse jogo varias vezes...999999

[kirk1968]

Man...I remember Vestron Video from back then, but could never afford their videos and the rental place never carried them. Ah well, better late than never :D

[thetylife]

lol....I never knew there was so much strategy and such to this game. This was the first ever video game I played. But from then on...my hatred for schmups just grew and grew.

[tecnoborg75]

that had to be the coolest cover in a early videogame. 0:02

[yasswah]

Cool game! I wonder if anyone would do an HD version of this ;)

[boogieedownberlin]

definitely one of the best, and most sophisticated, games on the atari :)

[nirbmtrREEEPR]

coincidences?When i was 7 i played for 7 hours straight and got 7,000,000 points.How about a HD remake for the psn or live?

[Albe983]

Yes, when i was 8 i played for 8 hours straight and got 8,000,000 points.

I joke ;-)

[playniax]

have a look at our upcoming version

[comsucks]

atari the best whit hasbrow

[malleebull75]

Awesome. Takes me back. Where do you get Defender t-shirts? Now, that would be cool!

[nephildevil]

my fav 2600 game

i once played it for so long my tv got overheated!

[ioport]

PEOW! PEOW!

[NixonTech2071]

I have this and lets just say its another dud that I truly appreciate! (Im talking about other peoples opinion calling it a dud, not necessarily my opinion).

[neddx]

Back than it was all about the gameplay and controls.

[moush]

@neddx It was about graphics too.

[therealjamesgardner]

@neddx Both of which sucked

[Sreybk]

I was so bummed out at the graphics when this came out because I was a DEFENDER KING.

[CCampLI]

Holy crap, this was one of the first games I got for the system like 25+ years ago.

The VERY first game I got for the Atari 2600 was "Lazerblast." As a 7 year old kid back then, I always wondered why the HELL the game never looked as good as the artwork on the box advertising it.

[Alexltavares]

I just commented the same thing on one of the laser tag clips! It was one of the first games I got, casue it looked so cool on the box. I was bored with it after life 15 minutes. Man was I pissed! At least I had Asteroids to fall back on. :)

[CCampLI]

Seriously.

The box was a huge deception.

That Lazerblast game was the biggest let-down I ever had when it came to games that totally sucked.

Best game.......DigDug.

Had tons of fun.

[dongpedroyi]

@CCampLI I'm 38 yrs old now and I remember how much I dreamed of owning an Atari console as a kid. The graphics are poor compared to today's games but It forced us to use a bit of imagination in order to make it fit into what the box artwork was picturing - that was the magic of Atari and all arcade games. I wonder how nice would be if they released all these classic games re-vamped using today's high bit resolution but maintaining the structure of the game...

[sparrowlt]

You can reverse instanteniously??

ATARI RULEZ... Atari ivented the newtonian modern flight combat model.. nor Galactica o B5 ...

Its like a Viper or a Starfury when you roll the ship while drifting to fire backwards.. is cool

[10547688]

В 89-м я часами проводил за этой игрой.

[ViciousHeadbutt]

This was a pretty good game. I always liked the artwork on the box the cartridge came in.

[jason43ben]

I hope the xbox 360 or the ps3 remasters this great game

got the original when I was 8

31 now still play it from time to time

[classof77]

A quality VCS arcade port.

People justly bag on Atari for travesties like VCS Pac-Man, but sometimes they came correct. I played the heck out of this cart back in the day.

[Death2Bigots]

I loved this game when I was 6 years old, but I always thought it to be irritating that my ship would go invis everytime I'd fire.

[nakamawarrior]

this is a fun game to play, i was never good at defender though

[cbrodows]

This game kicked ass. One of my favorite 2600 games.

[pacman5698]

Who narrates this show? Is he still alive?

[jackbox1971]

I played that game for years but didn't know that holding on to a hostage kept landers from taking more humanoids.

I prefered this to the arcade version which had like a dozen nobs, switches, and buttons. Stargate was even worse! Joysticks all the way!

[Toledo1837]

Of course this version of the game changed much of what the arcade edition was (namely putting you in the city).

[sasukekun1990]

Nice effects for the laser cannon!

[videogameknowitall]

This is a really cool game...

[benny600]

haha people needed help playing defender? i guess video games were new so they didn't really understand the concept... although i remember understanding it so i guess it was just the idiot teenagers