Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - Defender · 1981
Defender
Published by Sears
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Information
- Genre
- Shoot'em Up! - Defender
- Controls
- Joystick
- Players
- 1, 2 (alt.)
- Programmer(s)
- Polaro, Robert C.
- Format
- NTSC
- Year
- 1981
- Publisher
- Sears
- Country
- USA
- Medium
- Cartridge
- Serial
- 49-75186
Votes / Statistics
Rating: 7.3/10 · Votes: 12 · Downloads: 2,479 · Hits: 7,785
Additional Comments
Was sold with Atari Force comic book Volume 1.
On wave 25, hold a human at the approximate height where your ship first appears and any enemy ships on-screen will turn into the initials BP (for Bob Polaro).
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Cover Art (5)
Comments (1)
Crossbones Vanheems — 18 Apr 2020
We loved it! Thankfully much easier than the arcade, with all the features and enemies present, very playable, loads of fun! The various criticisms I've seen over the years, we never even considered them, we were just pleased to play Defender on the VCS and we did so for hours on end! Of course, a later variant proved you could make a closer copy, but still, this was great for its time.