Classic Game Room HD - DEFENDER for Atari 5200 review

Classic Game Room HD reviews DEFENDER for Atari 5200. This Eugene Jarvis classic arcade game is one of the best in the world, how does it work on the Atari 5200? CGRHD review of Defender has gameplay footage recorded from Atari 5200 showing the space ship in Defender during game play. Defender is an old school, horizontally scrolling SHMUP style game where you fight off enemies and save humans before they are captured and turned into mutants. What fun! The Atari 5200 has multiple buttons (unlike Atari 2600) allowing players to shoot, drop smart bombs and hyperspace! Classic Game Room HD reviews Atari 5200 video game cartridges as a retro reviewer reviewing Atari 5200 video games from the early 1980's.

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[zanuha]

ask the AVGN if he could give you his trakball controller.

[zane411]

You never had to appreciate games like this, you were born when the NES came out. You cant comprehend how much these games meant to us back in the day, and why they are still widely appreciated. This game is the father of all side scrolling shoot-em ups

[nonothinghaveitall]

Saturn version is awfully nice.

[MrFunmike1987]

This version sounds like a glitching nes.

[hitjohnyup]

There are always going to be two distinct types of gamers: The true video game enthusiasts and the people who disrespect Defender on the 5200.

I may not have been born in time to play this game when it came out, but then again I wasn't born in time for Citizen Kane or the Mona Lisa, either.

[netcvb]

What about the gamecube version of Defender?

[MadaraStv]

colecovision's is the best

[TJae1]

more like xl/xe version ~ my version ~

[playniax]

And I did a remake for PC and Mac...

[vonknackertrasher]

Odd about this being difficult. I couldn't play the standup arcade version to save my life, but I once had to stop playing the 5200 version because I was nodding off.

[MuttleyDynomutt]

I always liked this 5200 version and the Atari 8-bit version was the best because you can use the Atari joystick. I'm a big ColecoVision fan but its Defender was too easy and lacked the bells and whistles that the Atari 5200/8-bit have. All fun though!

[gestekoe]

Wow, the Coleco version kicked the shit out of all the others.