Defender
- Defender (1981 on Arcade, 1982 on Atari 2600, Atari 5200...)
- Defender (1982 on BBC Micro)
- Defender (1982 on Exidy Sorcerer, 1983 on Microbee)
- Defender (1992 on DOS)
- Defender (1997 on Dedicated handheld)
- Defender (2002 on PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube)
- Defender (2002 on Game Boy Advance)
- Defender (2021 on TRS-80 CoCo)
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Defender is a single player, Windows port of the classic arcade game.
The gameplay is virtually identical to the original. Players fly over a mountainous side-scrolling landscape attempting to prevent aliens abducting people. When enemy ships are destroyed the people they were carrying must be collected before they plummet to earth. Above the game area is a radar view of the game area so that the player can see where the enemies are and anticipate their arrival. The game gets progressively harder as the player moves up through the levels with later levels forsaking the earth altogether and being conducted in space against swarms of aliens.
This game has some interesting features not usually found, for example the game can record and play back the last successful game, it can display the CPU resource usage, it also allows the player to configure the sound, the display and the controller
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Game added by piltdown_man.
Game added June 2, 2015. Last modified February 13, 2023.