| DEFENDER |
  Another space game based on an Arcade game, surprise! Defender is a...can't remember if it's Bally/Midway or Williams, but it's a license. The game basically has you flying around in a space ship, killing off alien space ships that are perusing the city below to abduct people. So you have to shoot the space ships, grab the abductees, and put them gently back in the city below - hence the name Defender - you're Defending the public from an Alien invasionThis is another one of the ultra-common essentials for the 2600. Almost everyone had it, but not everyone totally understood or got what this game was about or how to properly play it. King Dork, Savior of the City - My Experiences This was one of those games we had that I don't remmember anyone actually playing that much. I sort of got into it with my first Atari at age 8 but I never really gave it too much credit. That said, I'm surprisingly good at this great grandaddy of horizontal shmups, adn I prefer this to the arcade version. This was one of those Atari titles I sort of saw as the mock-late-80's early-80's releases. You know, you plop down on your couch in your Denim Jacket, throw on some Rush, and go attacking septums, derby hats, and the brightness symbol from a early 1980's computer monitor that want to swipe up people from the city below and drag em' off. Is this why the abduction ships look like butt plugs? Seriously, that's half the fun of Atari, trying to make sense of what you are seeing without a manual. If you don't like these insane diatribes of non-related, seemingly random items - get out, but if you want to see how much more wacky this can get, let's keep going. TBH, Defender actually does a really good job of copying the arcade, but making it more accessible to the casual player. YouTube Videos |
