Defender (1981) Versions Comparison|HD|60FPS
0This video features gameplay from the various ports of the hit arcade game from the Golden Age of Gaming: DEFENDER. It was one of the most important titles of the golden age of arcade video games, selling over 55,000 units to become the one of the highest-grossing arcade games ever.
Please note: Remakes and sequels are not included in this comparison.
Please read Time Stamps for more details.
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Time Stamps
00:00 Arcade
Defender is a scrolling shooter video game developed by Williams Electronics in 1980 and released for arcades in 1981. A side-scrolling shooter, the game is set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending on platform) where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts.
01:20 Atari 2600
01:59 Atari 5200/8-bit family
02:38 Commodore 64/C64
03:14 VIC-20
03:54 Intellivision
04:33 Apple-II
05:12 ColecoVision
05:50 Texas Instruments (TI-99/4A)
06:30 BBC Micro
07:09 DOS
07:48 ZX Spectrum
08:27 Tiger, Game.com
The Game.com is a fifth-generation handheld game console released by Tiger Electronics in August 1997. ( Please note: The emulation of this system has noticeable sound issues, it is a common problem)
09:04 SAM Coupé (Sorry for the typo in the video description)
The SAM Coupé (pronounced /sæm ku:peɪ/ from its original British English branding) is an 8-bit British home computer that was first released in late 1989. It was designed to have compatibility with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, albeit in 48K mode only. It features a compatible screen mode and emulated compatibility, and was marketed as a logical upgrade from the Spectrum. It was originally manufactured by Miles Gordon Technology (MGT), based in Swansea in the United Kingdom.
09:42 Game Boy
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10:21 Game Boy Color
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11:00 GBA
2002 remake of Defender contains the original Arcade game on GBA.
11:30 Entex Adventure Vision
Adventure Vision is a cartridge-based video game console released by Entex Industries in either August or October 1982. The monitor, game controls, and computer hardware are all contained within a single portable unit. The LED monitor can only display red pixels. Four games were released, all of which are arcade ports.
12:09 SNES (Multi-Platform)
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12:48 Atari Jaguar
Atari Corporation released Defender 2000 in 1995 for the Atari Jaguar, it has the ordinal arcade version game included
It's my personal opinion that the developer (Atari) has not done justice to the home computer ports and a few home console ports as well as you can see from the footage, they are poorly done. As it is already known that this was one of the hardest and complex arcade games of that era, Atari should have made better quality ports.
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