Description
The first big commercially-available emulator collection (and a direct outgrowth of Digital Eclipse's early emulation work on the Macintosh.)
DOS version
Defender - side-scrolling shooter
Defender II - side-scrolling shooter
Joust - joust on flying ostriches
Robotron: 2084 - single-screen manic shoot 'em up
Sinistar - overhead free-range space shooter
Bubbles - play a scrubbing bubble in a game similar to the arcade Reactor
Also contains FMV supplements, including interviews with the original programmers.
Windows version
Defender
Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
Joust
Robotron
Sinistar
Bubbles
Also contains FMV supplements, including interviews with the original programmers.
Dreamcast version
Defender
Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
Joust
Robotron
Sinistar
Bubbles
PlayStation
Defender
Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
Joust
Robotron
Sinistar
Bubbles
Also contains FMV supplements, including interviews with the original programmers.
SNES version
Defender
Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
Joust
Robotron
Sinistar
Genesis version
Defender
Defender II (a.k.a. Stargate)
Joust
Robotron
Sinistar
Game.Com version
Defender
Joust
Robotron
SiniStar
Defender II
Alternate Titles
- "Williams Digital Arcade" -- European title
- "Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits" -- PSX/Genesis/Saturn/SNES title
- "Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits 1" -- Dreamcast title
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Trivia
Defender II is better known as Stargate- after the arcade release, Williams determined that the game's name infringed on an existing trademark (apparently for a board game), and the name was changed.
Despite Williams' assertions, though, the game's name was not changed immediately after the arcade release. The disc reveals that Williams programmers had to go to Atari to reprogram the title screen for the already-finished 2600 version... the problem is, the game was in release *as Stargate* for the 2600 later in the year- the Defender II variant didn't show up in stores until 1988. Unless the 2600 game was programmed and released at the same time as the arcade game, Williams' timeline is faulty.
(After the release of the movie Stargate a few years ago, several related home video and board games were released, without trademark conflict.)
