Defender
Released February 1981 on arcade video game machine, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit computers, Intellivision, Commodore VIC-20 and 14 more
- Developer
- WMS Industries
- Publisher
- Zellers, WMS Industries
- Made in
- Chicago, United States
- Genre
- Shooter, Strategy
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
About Defender
Defender is an arcade video game developed released by Williams Electronics in 1980. A shooting game featuring two-dimensional (2D) graphics, the game is set on a fictional planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defender was Jarvis's first video game project, and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids. Williams planned to display the game at the Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA) trade show, though development delays resulted in the team working on the game up until the show started.
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| arcade video game machine | March 1981 |
|---|---|
| Atari 2600 | 1981 |
| Atari 8-bit computers | 1982 |
| Intellivision | 1983 |
| Commodore VIC-20 | 1983 |
| Apple II | 1983 |
| Texas Instruments TI-99… | 1983 |
| ColecoVision | 1983 |
| MS-DOS | 1983 |
| Mac | 1994 |
| web browser | July 2000 |
| Xbox 360 | 15 November 2006 |
| Atari 5200 | later, date unknown |
| Commodore 64 | later, date unknown |
| Entex Adventure Vision | later, date unknown |
| Game Boy Advance | later, date unknown |
| GameCube | later, date unknown |
| PlayStation 2 | later, date unknown |
| Xbox | later, date unknown |
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