I mastered that game I grow up in the 80's watching all the guy's that could play good learned from all them then I was able to beat all them i remember when I 1st got the number 1 score in the immoral section where u get to put up 20 initial's felt like i conquered the world i would put millions in score n nobody could take it down but me my favorite game of all time n I can still play it good as I did when I was 11/12 n I'm 49 now just commented for the memory n the fun I had hopefully some other stargate experts will leave there experience and memory about stargate peace.
Thank you Amar, I never played it very much so never got any good at it, we get certain customers though who say it's the greatest game OF ALL TIME so I know it's something special. Thank you for watching!
I too mastered the game. It got to where a single quarter would last literally as long as I wanted it to. Once I played for 8 hours straight, was tough with drinking and peeing, but I did it, I think I got 12 million. Stopped because I got too tired.
@@LyonsArcade I got good at it; I eventually bought one for myself, but the electronics got old and the case got fuzzy. I still have it, and fixed it a few times but eventually the shag carpet didn't go away. I would like to do a full restoration some day. Let me know how feasible that is.
Definitely the GOAT of arcade games. One has to have honed their skills but the real trick or secret is to build up your arsenal in the beginning waves by rescuing and placing 4 or more humanoids into the Stargate. That not only warps one ahead in waves but also in points hence the build up in ships, smart bombs, and inviso. At the point, as mentioned in the video one can die several times but also keep On playing and advancing in points. Game play gets much more difficult tho having a reinforced arsenal really helps hones one skills and play longer... eventually it pays off and once comfortable and adept at maneuvers, it’s one of the most satisfying and exhilarating games to play.
I LOVED Stargate when I was like 14 years old, it's the best arcade game ever created bar none; man what a game. What made it great was that if you were good you could play a long time on a quarter, and that was the whole idea. We didn't have much money then, so you always wanted to play the games you got the most out of your money. I recently found a cool Defender tabletop game with authentic controls but so far they haven't made a proper Stargate. But I'm on line and when/if they do I'll pounce on it. I once turned the game completely over back in the day, but only ever did it once, now I can't even get much over 40,000 on my Defender, but I'm old now so it hurts my back to lift all those humanoids. I know I know, lift with your knees, got it.
Blew so much money on this game back in the day and it was worth every cent. Just a perfect match of gameplay, visuals and sound effects. Without a doubt one of the great if not the greatest games ever. I’d love to get my hands on one.
I have the most respect for Defender and Stargate players, some games are tough those two are evil! I don't know how you got good enough to score 2.5mil on a quarter, that's crazy good.
@@PaulBNYC wrong I mastered this game and I was in a zone and I stopped playing when I made it to 9,999,000 and I had all of my life killed because I didn't know if it would started back to 0 and I was at Evergreen Plaza in Chicago 1983 and everyone knew that I was the BEST ever and my name was Earnest as Shytown,,,SHY
Loved that arcade game. Man we used to either walk or ride our bikes while dragging a Radio Flyer behind collecting glass soda bottles for the $0.10 deposit each along the three mile trip to the store that had the games. Country life.
It's really fun watching you play an old classic like this. The comments when you die are the best! "They were gettin' my guy!" I do the same thing when playing it and Defender.
I agree. Most difficult of all the classic games. Watching someone who is good at Defender / Stargate is like watching an alien life form. I can't even comprehend what's going on. Such amazing sounds. When I hear the background noise from an 80's arcade in my head, Defender / Stargate sounds are always in the forefront. While for gameplay I always preferred the more enclosed sides around the monitor like Stargate has, the Defender cabinet is iconic.
Very nice! I bought one when I was in college for $350 back in '82... The consul on this one is very clean. Mine has some dents and burns in it. Great game!
I loved Stargate Defender back in the day! We brought rolls of quarters and played for hours non-stop. Like a dog chasing a rabbit, I would dream about playing, honest! lol
I could usually clock Defender but,to my eternal regret,I never got to play Stargate in an arcade-I searched the arcades of northern England in an epic yet fruitless endevour-I had hoped that being skilled at Defender(in my opinion the greatest game ever)would translate into stargate but alas I'll never know-the beauty of Defender was that the endless coins and practice did pay off into eventual mastery,though that took a great deal of practice-as a tip press thrust and fire repeatedly at the same time so you travel around destroying your foes and use the reverse button and fire to sneak up and destroy!
I've been gaming quite a long time and you had some really intriguing info. My local store back in the day had Defender, and I'd play it numerous times until one day they got rid of it and replaced it with Stargate, and that thing sucked my quarters up even worse. The store also had Centipede and Up and Down, in which I'd almost always get the high score on both.
@@LyonsArcade Nice! I thought it was cool that you could drive backwards if you wanted to in Up and Down and go back to get some flags you may have missed.
The legendary difficulty of Stargate has a bit of a legend behind it. As the story goes, Williams had a test machine out in the wild that they used to check whether the game was seeing sufficient turnover (these things are intended to make money for someone, after all), and they kept getting these ridiculously long play times, so they kept boosting the difficulty level until they eventually just gave up and released it anyway. Turns out their test arcade was also the home turf for the national Defender champion, which was kind of skewing their results.
That's pretty awesome :) My only problem with that story is I wasn't necessarily saying that Stargate was harder than Defender, I can't play either of them, LOL!
The learning curve is so damn steep on this and Defender, they don't even attempt to make games this hard anymore, it's like it has to be from the 80's to be this difficult!
Joe's Classic Video Games Yep, games these days are simplified down to appeal to a larger crowd for sure, with a few exceptions. I never remember a tutorial in 80’s arcade games! Kudos for keeping those gems up and running.
I loved this game back then and you had to practice and get your eye-hand coordinates right to get good at it but it would give you a great color show along with sound effects
My mom had this, Ms Pacman and Zaxxon in her store. They local video game guys put it in her store for half the take. That one does not have many cigarette burns.
You mention about the bottoms of these games getting wet. I know I have had to do a bunch of repair. I don't know if your familiar with Mylstar (gotlieb). Mach 1 and us vs them where in the same cabinet. Every cabinet I got my hands was shot. I appreciate you doing these vids Thanks Bryan
+Bryan Roth Those Gottlieb's are the worst if they get wet... they're almost made out of cardboard, you know because you've dealt with it... Galaga was made out of the same stuff, also the dedicated "Contra" was that same stuff... once they get wet, they swell up horribly, and everywhere there's a scratch the scratch swells up! These Williams cabinets were made out of plywood so they're pretty resilient, they all get wet but you're right, those Gottlieb cabinets are in horrible shape if any water at all has been on them....
Great game, dropped rolls on this when it 1st appeared, and it gets a lot harder at later lvl's. My 1st warp through that stargate made my hair stand on end.
Just a kid at age 12 trying to be the best! I was totally no good at defender though! Defender had no warp, and no inviso! That's what made me doment on Stargate!💯💯 I went by the name BZ aka Baby Zap. My mentor Zap. I wish I could look up high scores!
My parents have one of these in their basement! It doesn’t run, but it probably just needs a fuse or a wire somewhere. I’ll have to double-check for water damage (since our basement did have a partial flood, but I think the game cabinet was unaffected), but other than that, it’s in good condition! Would love to get it up and running again 😊 EDIT: “the toughest arcade game of all time” oh good, so it wasn’t just me 😆
this is one game that gone through a name change during it run. I remember the defender II version and then they revamped it to stargate. interesting enough they reverted back to defender II when Midway release the PS2 Compilation and PS3 Compilation as well.
They made a little multigame arcade version in the early 2000's, with Defender and Defender II in one cabinet, so by then they must have abandoned the Stargate name. I wonder if it was a legal thing, because Stargate is a great name and everybody already knows it's the sequel.... The Nintendo game was called Defender II, too... very weird.
I suspect after the sci-fi movie under the name stargate must have had the giving them seconds thoughts to avoid confusions and legal issues. there was already TV series based of the movie coming out at that time. so I think they made a smart move. Stargate was a good name for a defender II but what's weird was when I was a kid. I thought stargate was a knock off of defender II. Bump & Jump had a name change in the middle of it run as well.
i went over a million points on defender the only one i knew that did it before me was chesley perry back in the day in desmoines iowa we never met but would score highest then take each other s names down and put our own of coarse AT 17 my name not me become well knowen on the arcades , i just loved to play the games both defender and stargate haven't thought much of it for 36 years now i might have to get me one
JOES CLASSIC, for somereason the Williams Defender uses a Matrix array for the RAM chips. Most arcade games don't have the RAM chips in this Matrix array. I'm not sure if the Williams Stargate is also using this Matrix array for the RAM chips. But not sure if you know the answer as to why they used the RAM chips in this matrix array for any reasons?
Bill I'm not positive why they did that but yes the Stargate was arranged the same way, all the early Williams games were and sometimes even used the same gameboards with different roms. Joust, Stargate, Bubbles, Defender, Robotron and a couple others.
Those red coin slots were not around when that game was released. They were either metal or the black plastic one's. This game is tuff, it ain't for casual gamers.
I was the best in my home town at Defender, just one coin would last me the day, but as you can imagine after weeks of doing this sort of thing a new rule came out which said you could only clock the game once then they turned it off an on again and that was it. Anyhow, after 40 or so years this is the first time I knew after watching this youtube there was a second generation of this game called stargate.
Wow that's pretty cool, I guess if you were an operator it'd be tough when 1 kid could play it all day for a quarter, that wouldn't even pay for the electricity, Ha! I'm surprised you never ran in to Stargate, the local operators must have never bought any for whatever reason (maybe because you made sure they didn't make any money on Defender!) Thanks for watching Tron Wars we'll see you on the next video :)
@@LyonsArcade Small town New Zealand, bottom of the planet may have been another reason I didn't see the game, and the town only had about 40,000 people at the time, but yea, they weren't happy using a coin a day but it was 100's of coins when I was first learning it :-)
I talked with an operator who used to be the manager of a bowling alley, he ran his own games in there... he said the week Defender came out, he made $800 in 1 machine. He said he just watched people walk up, put a quarter in, and then lose it in like 30 seconds, lol
Never saw that in the UK. The original (Defender) was Awesome. Best thing was to shoot the Alien when it had picked up the Humanoid, Blow it away. Catch the Humanoid and keep them.
Stargate never had the same smooth quality gameplay feel that defender had. I got good at Stargate, but Defender just felt like it had a smoother better visual gameplay feeling. But, re stargate, there was some trick you could do with the teleporter by flipping the ship backwards as you went thru and something else so you could skip levels, but I'm a little unclear exactly on how to do it now ..
@@LyonsArcade I used to play them in the 80's! We'd each take a purple microdot and play star gate tripping on mescaline. Ill find a Williams star gate defender one day!
One time we were trippin downtown pittsburgh and playing stargate was 1983. I had a burn blister on my tbumb. I went to hit the smart bomb (because u have to use your thumb) and the water blister busted. It liberally felt like someone dumped a bucket of water over my whole body and i just dropped. It must have looked crazy to soneone on the outside looking in!
They usually had Electrohome G07 monitors in them. Here's the manual: arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Monitors/Williams_Type_B_19in_Color_Monitor_(16-3000-100B)_Jan_1982.pdf
@6:22 REDACTED, not reduced. ("Oh okay, that's cool") lol. This game was difficult . What's weird is that at the 9 minute mark, you read it correctly. 🤔 I enjoy your videos and mean no disrespect.
I have a question about the function of My williams joust game that I bought just to play the defender and Stargate that's included. in it. It's a 2 player console like yours but there is no smart button. It this something that can be fixed or added..or turned on?
It depends on what board is in it, how it was wired, etc. We made some multigames with those on it back in the day and basically the left and right does the reverse and the smartbomb / hyperspace were wired up to the start buttons. Sounds like you may have one that they didnt' hook all the buttons up on it.
@@LyonsArcade So maybe it's possible to hook it up? What's weird is that while playing defender there is no smart bomb button. But if you play Stargate the 1st smart bomb explodes the first time you touch the fire button. After that you can fire away all through your life until you die. On your send and 3rd life its the same. First time you touch the fire button to shoot the smart bomb goes off and then you can shoot. Smart bomb only works 1 per life upon first touch of the fire button. I know that's not correct. But is this a wire that needs to be moved from the fire button to the player 1 button or is it programming? Tbanks
Joe they pop up from time to time but I haven't seen one lately. They'd be about $1600 but we don't ship them, a shipping company could come pick it up and bring it to Canada but you're probably looking at $600 or so.
This is just the original game, fixed up as nice as we could get it. They did re-release it around 2005 as a cabinet with Defender in the same cabinet (two in one machine).
+James007HungerZone It's the same game, they just called it "Stargate" in the arcade (and on the original Atari 2600) then called it "Defender II" on the home systems (and renamed the Atari cartridge!)
Yes, abducted by the Landers, who pick them up, go to the top, get "Queened", then merge with the human and turn into Mutants. If you look carefully you will still see a human inside the Mutant.
SHOOT EVERYTHING BUT HUMANOIDS..CATCH MANY HUMANOIDS AND HOLD EM DON'T SET EM DOWN TILL YOU CATCH ALL ..THEN SET EM DOWN ,,..FLY INTO STARGATE TO GET AWAY...
I can't remember, I recorded this years ago. Instead of asking questions just state whatever smart ass remark you're trying to make and we can go from there
If anyone is interested, I have a pretty mint Stargate cabaret and I'm willing to get rid of it for the right price. Williams only made 4 game titles in cabaret form so it's rare.
I mastered that game I grow up in the 80's watching all the guy's that could play good learned from all them then I was able to beat all them i remember when I 1st got the number 1 score in the immoral section where u get to put up 20 initial's felt like i conquered the world i would put millions in score n nobody could take it down but me my favorite game of all time n I can still play it good as I did when I was 11/12 n I'm 49 now just commented for the memory n the fun I had hopefully some other stargate experts will leave there experience and memory about stargate peace.
Thank you Amar, I never played it very much so never got any good at it, we get certain customers though who say it's the greatest game OF ALL TIME so I know it's something special. Thank you for watching!
I too mastered the game. It got to where a single quarter would last literally as long as I wanted it to. Once I played for 8 hours straight, was tough with drinking and peeing, but I did it, I think I got 12 million. Stopped because I got too tired.
@@LyonsArcade I got good at it; I eventually bought one for myself, but the electronics got old and the case got fuzzy. I still have it, and fixed it a few times but eventually the shag carpet didn't go away. I would like to do a full restoration some day. Let me know how feasible that is.
Definitely the GOAT of arcade games. One has to have honed their skills but the real trick or secret is to build up your arsenal in the beginning waves by rescuing and placing 4 or more humanoids into the Stargate. That not only warps one ahead in waves but also in points hence the build up in ships, smart bombs, and inviso. At the point, as mentioned in the video one can die several times but also keep On playing and advancing in points. Game play gets much more difficult tho having a reinforced arsenal really helps hones one skills and play longer... eventually it pays off and once comfortable and adept at maneuvers, it’s one of the most satisfying and exhilarating games to play.
I LOVED Stargate when I was like 14 years old, it's the best arcade game ever created bar none; man what a game. What made it great was that if you were good you could play a long time on a quarter, and that was the whole idea. We didn't have much money then, so you always wanted to play the games you got the most out of your money. I recently found a cool Defender tabletop game with authentic controls but so far they haven't made a proper Stargate. But I'm on line and when/if they do I'll pounce on it. I once turned the game completely over back in the day, but only ever did it once, now I can't even get much over 40,000 on my Defender, but I'm old now so it hurts my back to lift all those humanoids. I know I know, lift with your knees, got it.
We truly had a childhood! I'm STILL looking to buy this game!
It's a very cool game, it's hard to find them anymore!
My favorite game in the arcade 80s
It was way too hard for me but I can see where people would like it because there's so much room to get better on it...
Stargate was 1 of my 2 favorite games from my arcade days.
The other game was the almighty.....
GRAVITAR.👍
You are so bringing me back to 1983 (age 16). I will be hitting you up for one of these soon~ can't wait to play again in my home in Las Vegas
Blew so much money on this game back in the day and it was worth every cent.
Just a perfect match of gameplay, visuals and sound effects. Without a doubt one of the great if not the greatest games ever.
I’d love to get my hands on one.
I love the active volcano in the landscape-what a cool touch!
By far my favorite game.....it took skill, intelligence and stamina. oh.....and lots and lots of quarters. 1981? I was 17.
Yes this was a very, very tough game for the casual gamer!
My favorite game in my time. I was an original gamer in the 80s. My highest score was 2.5 mil one quarter is all it took.
I have the most respect for Defender and Stargate players, some games are tough those two are evil! I don't know how you got good enough to score 2.5mil on a quarter, that's crazy good.
how'd you score 2.5 million? the game only went up to 1,000,000. I know because I flipped the game over 14 times.
@@PaulBNYC wrong I mastered this game and I was in a zone and I stopped playing when I made it to 9,999,000 and I had all of my life killed because I didn't know if it would started back to 0 and I was at Evergreen Plaza in Chicago 1983 and everyone knew that I was the BEST ever and my name was Earnest as Shytown,,,SHY
Loved that arcade game. Man we used to either walk or ride our bikes while dragging a Radio Flyer behind collecting glass soda bottles for the $0.10 deposit each along the three mile trip to the store that had the games. Country life.
It's really fun watching you play an old classic like this. The comments when you die are the best! "They were gettin' my guy!" I do the same thing when playing it and Defender.
+Shark80228 Yeah, I try not to cuss but let a few slip on this one, lol.
I agree. Most difficult of all the classic games. Watching someone who is good at Defender / Stargate is like watching an alien life form. I can't even comprehend what's going on.
Such amazing sounds. When I hear the background noise from an 80's arcade in my head, Defender / Stargate sounds are always in the forefront. While for gameplay I always preferred the more enclosed sides around the monitor like Stargate has, the Defender cabinet is iconic.
I'm on tape playing it badly :)
Awesome!!! Great find.
Very nice! I bought one when I was in college for $350 back in '82... The consul on this one is very clean. Mine has some dents and burns in it. Great game!
Yes they're really cool... that overlay we had replaced with a brand new one from www.ArcadeShop.com . The original one was in pretty rough shape!
Ill buy it in a heartbeat
I loved Stargate Defender back in the day! We brought rolls of quarters and played for hours non-stop. Like a dog chasing a rabbit, I would dream about playing, honest! lol
sooooo hard man, I don't see how you did it!
I could usually clock Defender but,to my eternal regret,I never got to play Stargate in an arcade-I searched the arcades of northern England in an epic yet fruitless endevour-I had hoped that being skilled at Defender(in my opinion the greatest game ever)would translate into stargate but alas I'll never know-the beauty of Defender was that the endless coins and practice did pay off into eventual mastery,though that took a great deal of practice-as a tip press thrust and fire repeatedly at the same time so you travel around destroying your foes and use the reverse button and fire to sneak up and destroy!
Don't give up yet, if a 'barcade' opens near you they may have one!
You should put that on your bucket list! There has to be a few scattered around somewhere on your side of the pond.
I've been gaming quite a long time and you had some really intriguing info. My local store back in the day had Defender, and I'd play it numerous times until one day they got rid of it and replaced it with Stargate, and that thing sucked my quarters up even worse. The store also had Centipede and Up and Down, in which I'd almost always get the high score on both.
Up and Down is such a cool game, they used to have a cocktail version at the flea market in the early 90's!
@@LyonsArcade Nice! I thought it was cool that you could drive backwards if you wanted to in Up and Down and go back to get some flags you may have missed.
It great colors , action and sounds , i remember hearing other games and pins saying thats a defender sound , yes one of my favs too
The legendary difficulty of Stargate has a bit of a legend behind it. As the story goes, Williams had a test machine out in the wild that they used to check whether the game was seeing sufficient turnover (these things are intended to make money for someone, after all), and they kept getting these ridiculously long play times, so they kept boosting the difficulty level until they eventually just gave up and released it anyway. Turns out their test arcade was also the home turf for the national Defender champion, which was kind of skewing their results.
That's pretty awesome :) My only problem with that story is I wasn't necessarily saying that Stargate was harder than Defender, I can't play either of them, LOL!
One of my favorite games ever, I sucked at it but..... that didn’t stop me.
The learning curve is so damn steep on this and Defender, they don't even attempt to make games this hard anymore, it's like it has to be from the 80's to be this difficult!
Joe's Classic Video Games
Yep, games these days are simplified down to appeal to a larger crowd for sure, with a few exceptions. I never remember a tutorial in 80’s arcade games! Kudos for keeping those gems up and running.
ah..childhood memories..and the sound effects!
Yeah, Williams was the KING of sound effects!
Was hooked on this game hard in the military.my off time was on this game...
It's so tough man! Crazy hard game.
Was hell of a game in the 80's
Yeah, it really was something special.
Poured many quarters into this game until I got good enough to play for 3 hours on a quarter.
I loved this game back then and you had to practice and get your eye-hand coordinates right to get good at it but it would give you a great color show along with sound effects
Yeah they did a good job of showing off what they could do on this one...
i used spend quarters galore in 711 on this game!! miss the classics.
I'll bet it took ALL the quarters back in the day, game's tough as hell!
My mom had this, Ms Pacman and Zaxxon in her store. They local video game guys put it in her store for half the take.
That one does not have many cigarette burns.
You mention about the bottoms of these games getting wet. I know I have had to do a bunch of repair. I don't know if your familiar with Mylstar (gotlieb). Mach 1 and us vs them where in the same cabinet. Every cabinet I got my hands was shot.
I appreciate you doing these vids
Thanks
Bryan
+Bryan Roth Those Gottlieb's are the worst if they get wet... they're almost made out of cardboard, you know because you've dealt with it... Galaga was made out of the same stuff, also the dedicated "Contra" was that same stuff... once they get wet, they swell up horribly, and everywhere there's a scratch the scratch swells up! These Williams cabinets were made out of plywood so they're pretty resilient, they all get wet but you're right, those Gottlieb cabinets are in horrible shape if any water at all has been on them....
PLAYED IT ON A TABLE MODEL IN THE 80S.... TURNED IT OVER ONCE..SO COOL GRAPHICS WHEN I DID .... SO COOL. 100,000 OR 1,000,000 CAN'T REMEMBER.
I think it turns at 100 million. I got 12 million once, didn't turn over; Defender turns at 100,000 if I remember correctly
I own this on Midway Arcade Treasures under the name Defender II.
It's a cool game, very tough though!
Great game, dropped rolls on this when it 1st appeared, and it gets a lot harder at later lvl's. My 1st warp through that stargate made my hair stand on end.
That's very cool, you can see how adding that really made it something different :)
My favorite. The also had a horizontal console.
We've never had the sitdown, but hopefully one day.
Best video game ever!....
Hardest ever too!
@@LyonsArcade
Yep....hardest ='s best! lol
Best game ever
This was my Game back in the Day I could play all day on one coin. Clocked at 10 million points unlike Defender which clocked at 1 million Happy Days
Me encantaba ese juego y sus sonidos, like !!!
nice job ... the original monitor bezel is missing. At least I can't see it behind the glass.
Look closer it's there, just looks dark in the video, the original bezel didn't have much going on.
I've got some really good memories helping my dad fix one of these up. Very fun game
Very fun, but so hard!
I would play hooky from school sometimes and stay on Stargate till school was over on one quarter! My high score was 15 million!
Wew, that's some talent. My high score is "I got off the first level" LOL!
Just a kid at age 12 trying to be the best! I was totally no good at defender though! Defender had no warp, and no inviso! That's what made me doment on Stargate!💯💯 I went by the name BZ aka Baby Zap. My mentor Zap. I wish I could look up high scores!
My parents have one of these in their basement! It doesn’t run, but it probably just needs a fuse or a wire somewhere. I’ll have to double-check for water damage (since our basement did have a partial flood, but I think the game cabinet was unaffected), but other than that, it’s in good condition! Would love to get it up and running again 😊
EDIT: “the toughest arcade game of all time” oh good, so it wasn’t just me 😆
In my opinion, toughest ever. I've watched people that are really good at it and know their 'secrets' but it still comes down to raw skill, lol
this is one game that gone through a name change during it run. I remember the defender II version and then they revamped it to stargate. interesting enough they reverted back to defender II when Midway release the PS2 Compilation and PS3 Compilation as well.
They made a little multigame arcade version in the early 2000's, with Defender and Defender II in one cabinet, so by then they must have abandoned the Stargate name. I wonder if it was a legal thing, because Stargate is a great name and everybody already knows it's the sequel.... The Nintendo game was called Defender II, too... very weird.
I suspect after the sci-fi movie under the name stargate must have had the giving them seconds thoughts to avoid confusions and legal issues. there was already TV series based of the movie coming out at that time. so I think they made a smart move. Stargate was a good name for a defender II but what's weird was when I was a kid. I thought stargate was a knock off of defender II. Bump & Jump had a name change in the middle of it run as well.
That makes sense!
i kicked ass on this game love it!!
I'm not very good at it as the video proves :)
you cant stay in one spot because they're picking up your humanoids and eating them and turning into faster humanoids
i went over a million points on defender the only one i knew that did it before me was chesley perry back in the day in desmoines iowa we never met but would score highest then take each other s names down and put our own of coarse AT 17 my name not me become well knowen on the arcades , i just loved to play the games both defender and stargate haven't thought much of it for 36 years now i might have to
get me one
You oughta track one down man and get to practicing :)
JOES CLASSIC, for somereason the Williams Defender uses a Matrix array for the RAM chips. Most arcade games don't have the RAM chips in this Matrix array. I'm not sure if the Williams Stargate is also using this Matrix array for the RAM chips. But not sure if you know the answer as to why they used the RAM chips in this matrix array for any reasons?
Bill I'm not positive why they did that but yes the Stargate was arranged the same way, all the early Williams games were and sometimes even used the same gameboards with different roms. Joust, Stargate, Bubbles, Defender, Robotron and a couple others.
@@LyonsArcade ok thanks I will check out those other games also
Those red coin slots were not around when that game was released. They were either metal or the black plastic one's. This game is tuff, it ain't for casual gamers.
You've got that right, it's a nightmare to amateurs :)
@@LyonsArcade I remember watching some master gamer's playing it, it requires quick reflexes.
This was MUCH harder than Defender! I spent LOTS of quarters on Defender, but was very discouraged (i.e. only a few quarters) on Stargate.
"Harder than Defender" is hard for me to compute, lol. Defender takes my lunch money everytime.
this is transported me back in time to when I was 14 and playing this in my local 7-11... FUUUUU!!!!
Good times :)
I was the best in my home town at Defender, just one coin would last me the day, but as you can imagine after weeks of doing this sort of thing a new rule came out which said you could only clock the game once then they turned it off an on again and that was it.
Anyhow, after 40 or so years this is the first time I knew after watching this youtube there was a second generation of this game called stargate.
Wow that's pretty cool, I guess if you were an operator it'd be tough when 1 kid could play it all day for a quarter, that wouldn't even pay for the electricity, Ha! I'm surprised you never ran in to Stargate, the local operators must have never bought any for whatever reason (maybe because you made sure they didn't make any money on Defender!) Thanks for watching Tron Wars we'll see you on the next video :)
@@LyonsArcade Small town New Zealand, bottom of the planet may have been another reason I didn't see the game, and the town only had about 40,000 people at the time, but yea, they weren't happy using a coin a day but it was 100's of coins when I was first learning it :-)
That's a shame you didn't get it in, you probably would have enjoyed it!
I love this game.....actually got to 1 million points at one time.
I got a couple thousand in the video :)
I bet this game paid for itself real quick!
I talked with an operator who used to be the manager of a bowling alley, he ran his own games in there... he said the week Defender came out, he made $800 in 1 machine. He said he just watched people walk up, put a quarter in, and then lose it in like 30 seconds, lol
My dental office has this game in its arcade
That's pretty cool, we've got some dental offices around that we've sold a bunch of games to, pretty smart for the dentists to be doing that...
Where???
At 6:20, it's "...to humanoids being ABDUCTED", not "...to humanoids being reduced" ! :)
+power20841 Good catch there, glad we got that straightened out!
Hi!
Thanks for the amazing video.
What’s the cost of a Defender in that condition? I really want to buy one.
Never saw that in the UK.
The original (Defender) was Awesome.
Best thing was to shoot the Alien when it had picked up the Humanoid, Blow it away. Catch the Humanoid and keep them.
One of these days I'm going to put enough time on it to get decent....
Stargate never had the same smooth quality gameplay feel that defender had. I got good at Stargate, but Defender just felt like it had a smoother better visual gameplay feeling. But, re stargate, there was some trick you could do with the teleporter by flipping the ship backwards as you went thru and something else so you could skip levels, but I'm a little unclear exactly on how to do it now ..
As you can tell by the gameplay, I'm not good enough to be doing any tricks, lol! It's a true classic, though, anyway you look @ it.
with four humans collected flying backward into the stargate prevents warping. this allows you to run up your score higher.
I want a Williams star gate defender!!!!
They're pretty cool!
@@LyonsArcade I used to play them in the 80's! We'd each take a purple microdot and play star gate tripping on mescaline. Ill find a Williams star gate defender one day!
I've heard others say they did that :)
@@LyonsArcade I'd love to share stories with them. Those days,are long gone!
One time we were trippin downtown pittsburgh and playing stargate was 1983. I had a burn blister on my tbumb. I went to hit the smart bomb (because u have to use your thumb) and the water blister busted. It liberally felt like someone dumped a bucket of water over my whole body and i just dropped. It must have looked crazy to soneone on the outside looking in!
In my top 3 .
It's a great game but obviously i'm not very good at it :)
I put a lot of quarters into this game and to the point where it wasn't that hard for me anymore.
Sinistar by Williams is the most difficult arcade game...
It’s definitely tough!
Yeah, that was nigh impossible to win. Sent chills when Sinistar starts screaming and chasing you.
What brand and model of CRT monitor did this game have?
Does yours have the original CRT?
I cannot find that info anywhere...
They usually had Electrohome G07 monitors in them. Here's the manual: arcarc.xmission.com/PDF_Monitors/Williams_Type_B_19in_Color_Monitor_(16-3000-100B)_Jan_1982.pdf
Thanks a million!
@@cwalker3783 Restoration notwithstanding, I would put a LCD replacement screen into it.
we have one and my sister broke the glass so now the screen is exposed and little bits of glass are all in the machine
AAACCCKKKK! Be careful :) You can buy a new screen for it at www.ArcadeShop.com , it's called a Bezel.
@6:22 REDACTED, not reduced. ("Oh okay, that's cool") lol. This game was difficult . What's weird is that at the 9 minute mark, you read it correctly. 🤔 I enjoy your videos and mean no disrespect.
What’s weird is that you just had to mention it
Where can I get one
I currently have one of these and it turns on but nothing pops up on the screen.
Probably the power supply, but these things are a beast, it takes a little bit of work to get a williams game back up and running...
+Joe's Classic Video Games I noticed that LED 1 and LED 2 come on but not LED 3.
yah power supply is 35 years old im rebuilding mine could also be one of the slow blow fuses being dirty or blown
How much for the Stargate game machine.
I have a question about the function of My williams joust game that I bought just to play the defender and Stargate that's included.
in it. It's a 2 player console like yours but there is no smart button. It this something that can be fixed or added..or turned on?
It depends on what board is in it, how it was wired, etc. We made some multigames with those on it back in the day and basically the left and right does the reverse and the smartbomb / hyperspace were wired up to the start buttons. Sounds like you may have one that they didnt' hook all the buttons up on it.
@@LyonsArcade
So maybe it's possible to hook it up? What's weird is that while playing defender there is no smart bomb button. But if you play Stargate the 1st smart bomb explodes the first time you touch the fire button. After that you can fire away all through your life until you die. On your send and 3rd life its the same. First time you touch the fire button to shoot the smart bomb goes off and then you can shoot. Smart bomb only works 1 per life upon first touch of the fire button. I know that's not correct. But is this a wire that needs to be moved from the fire button to the player 1 button or is it programming? Tbanks
Are there anymore around? Are u getting anymore?
Approx.how much and how much to ship to canada..
Joe they pop up from time to time but I haven't seen one lately. They'd be about $1600 but we don't ship them, a shipping company could come pick it up and bring it to Canada but you're probably looking at $600 or so.
@@LyonsArcade ok awesome thanks ..
The best strategy is catch 4 falling humans then go low ...lol
My one friend did 22 million on starcastle and i think 10 m on stargate i never got passed ylabian level 2.. about 160000.. lol
You saw my best game ever, on this video , LOL
@@LyonsArcade When they become $16,000, the I will refurbish the one I have; needs work to put it mildly.
are these going to make a come back? or is this refurbished classic?
This is just the original game, fixed up as nice as we could get it. They did re-release it around 2005 as a cabinet with Defender in the same cabinet (two in one machine).
Refurbed original
Space invaders, robotron too
Did this one come first? So technically Defender 2 would actually be Defender 3 then
+James007HungerZone It's the same game, they just called it "Stargate" in the arcade (and on the original Atari 2600) then called it "Defender II" on the home systems (and renamed the Atari cartridge!)
It says, "Stargate: Transports player to humans being ABDUCTED." Not reduced. The humans are not being made smaller.
You sound very smart Scott, certainly smarter than I am.
Yes, abducted by the Landers, who pick them up, go to the top, get "Queened", then merge with the human and turn into Mutants. If you look carefully you will still see a human inside the Mutant.
Is it for sale?
Sorry Ant Sid we sold this a long while back.
@@LyonsArcade
OK thank you for the reply
How much are you selling this arcade cabinet for?
+Anthony Durant We already sold it Anthony... it was $1299.
I’m the best at Defender!!
Do they have both games on PS4 platform. Defender and Stargate, if so where can they be purchased?
The problem is the playboard; it really has to be exactly the same as the arcade version to play right.
Nice asz console!! how much are y'all asking?
It was $1299 but we already sold it :(
Bell is top dog. [ BELL]
The control panel was deliberately designed to make gameplay hard.
SHOOT EVERYTHING BUT HUMANOIDS..CATCH MANY HUMANOIDS AND HOLD EM DON'T SET EM DOWN TILL YOU CATCH ALL ..THEN SET EM DOWN ,,..FLY INTO STARGATE TO GET AWAY...
once all the humanoids are dead the aliens turn into demonic entities way worse and all come for you at one time lol
Yup, crazy idea for a game :)
But on the other hand, it doesn't last long after that! lol
I have the same one not as clean have not plugged it in cuz I don't want to fry it if anyone is interested
R U in Michigan?
is it possibill to down load deffender arkade game
Defender
www.planetemu.net/rom/mame-roms/defender
Stargate
www.planetemu.net/rom/mame-roms/stargate
I shot my humanoid lol
It happens :)
any one selling deffender 1980 williams
Dude 1440 was awful.
you read the instructions twice, really ???
I can't remember, I recorded this years ago. Instead of asking questions just state whatever smart ass remark you're trying to make and we can go from there
If anyone is interested, I have a pretty mint Stargate cabaret and I'm willing to get rid of it for the right price. Williams only made 4 game titles in cabaret form so it's rare.