Defender
Released in 1981 on Arcade, shooter.
- Year: 1981
- Platform: Arcade
- Genre: Shooter
- Developer: Williams Electronics
Overview
Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar built a side scrolling shooter with a radar map and a then daunting five button control layout. Rescuing humanoids from abducting landers added strategy to the blasting, and its punishing difficulty made it one of the top earning arcade machines of its era.
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