Williams Defender Arcade No death before 50k+ White Hard dp

Williams Defender came out in 1980, 60,000 games were made. This game is still one of the fastest paced games ever. When it came out people thought that it was no possible to pass 70k, later folks would be turning the game over. This is Red version MAME its on a tougher setting than most arcades would set it at.

After 100k if you hang around for for over 10-20 secconds and waist time its not uncommon to get 5+ vaders on the screen.

This is using the original panel with a Hagstrom keyboard emulator module. It plays like the original.

This was a decent set for me but started getting tired, score was over 250k but video got to long so I capped it at 100k.

For those of you who write you can turn it over, I could could to on standard settings, but MAME Red setting or rather "White Label" is nasty, pretty sure I could turn over this too given some time to get back in the swing of things.

Please comment and post video response of your Defender work!!! (more)

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[bigglyguy]

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?

[terrablader]

@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.

[Springbok295]

I dare think of how many quarters I put in Defender machines from '83-'86.

[unclebobunclebob]

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.

[Redliner500]

gotta learn to reverse more dude, good game

[Redliner500]

i played this game so much in 82/83 i had HUGE calouses on my thumb from reversing............ GO DEFENDER!!!

[theelusiveone]

@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.

[bigglyguy]

@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..?

[JAF69]

wow you are a great defender......

[theelusiveone]

@theelusiveone Do not get the midway ps1 version cause the controls are horrible. Good luck.

[theelusiveone]

@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]

Excellent video and setup.