Classic Game Room HD - DEFENDER for Colecovision review

Classic Game Room HD reviews the iconic DEFENDER for the Colecovision video game console! This Defender review shows off the Eugene Jarvis masterpiece as it was released by Atarisoft for Coleco Vision. This game was originally a 1980 arcade hit from the masters at Midway. Regarded as one of the best games ever created, Defender is in many ways a very early SHMUP style horizontal shooter. It is different from most SHMUPS in many ways, but it does have a space ship, the space ship shoots things and those things happen to be aliens. Blast the evil landers before they kidnap humans and turn into mutants! Defender was released on numerous game platforms over the past 30 years (almost 30 years) like the Atari 2600, Playstation and Xbox Live Arcade XBLA. The game has staying power because of its fun and addictive gamplay and steep difficulty curve. Crush alien invaders like a maniac in DEFENDER and blast your way to a high score. Classic Game Room reviews the best new and retro video games, hardware, joysticks and equipment daily. If you are a retro gamer or old school video game enthusiast, you need to be watching CGRHD.

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[walkerctranger]

because then hed be another boring AVGN rip off... and he actually likes to talk good about video games, he seems to acutally like them, instead of just saying fuck to sound cool. Mark is funny, but his humor is incredibly subtle

[jupreindeer]

That explosion effect for the ship is just awesome!

[joe11350]

I USE TO PLAY THIS BACK IN THE DAY

[nandi075]

hi, i came to this review because mark told me I SHOULD revisit this review on twitter

[CJRivard]

Atari 800 version is by far the best version of this game. Just don't hit that space bar too hard!! Many Atari 800's keyboards were damaged by hitting the space bar too hard which activated the smart bombs.

[pvtchapman1beer]

those lasers sound so official, like they would just f'n vaporize you

[xXHaymaker69Xx]

ahhh back when games were good

[QuiteUnused]

I never stopped to think about it before... just took it at face value that abducting humans against their will and turning them into mutants was bad, but if you look closer, they're still mostly human after the transformation, just yellow, with multiple limbs, able to fly and engage in airborne combat. Seems pretty superior... ohh, and if the planet is destroyed, they're perfectly capable of space travel. Yay mutants!! Screw defending the humans LoL

[spinamajig]

I suck at this game! :)

[xxxIronLeexxx]

If you don't like the stock Coleco controller with this game, try it with the Colecovision Super Action controller. It's pretty sweet...

[xxxIronLeexxx]

If I had to choose between a Xbox, Playstation, or my Colecovision to play for the rest of my life, I choose my Coleco everytime.