Arcade Files · 👾 The golden age (1978–83)
G33Z3R Arcade Files · 1981–1985
Defender
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Five buttons, a joystick, a scanner at the top of the screen, and a difficulty curve designed to eat quarters. Defender was the game the good players owned and everyone else fed for thirty seconds.
It was the first scrolling shooter with a world bigger than the screen, and the smart bomb and hyperspace made it a panic simulator. The sound of a humanoid falling to its death is a specific 1981 dread.
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Defender.
The golden age (1978–83) · 1979–1984
Released: 1979
The golden age (1978–83) · 1981–1985
Released: 1981
The golden age (1978–83) · 1982–1986
Released: 1982
The golden age (1978–83) · 1981–1985
Released: 1981