Williams Defender arcade. Clock 1 million, clock waves, pick up all 10 + a humanoid trick.
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2020
- This is Williams Defender green label on MAME, factory settings. On wave 1 I pick up all ten and force 5 through to the top of the screen. This is a bug and I always wondered what happens as they start to crawl down the screen when they reach the bottom. Gary Whittingtham has done this and I wanted to do the same myself. You can see they eventually settle back on the mountain. I've clocked Defender many times but never taken the time to keep playing. I wanted to see the waves clock to 0 and get through the first half of the second million on the lives you get for every score after 990,000 and before 1m. I just about make it.
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Remember back in the day when anyone who could play at this high level would draw huge crowds to watch in admiration.
Except when you play this for like 10 hours+ inside an arcade and its sunny outside. Like watching paint dry. Now id pay to see done irl.
Made it to 1M+ on 1 life several times. Not that it matters now. Did not matter then either. But I could damn well play Defender.
I believe my highest score back in the 80s was around a half million . Me and one other kid would always battle for hight score in Greater Boston arcades . But then this one mystery person every other month wouldn demolish our scores by getting close to a million. Never did see that person . Maybe it was you?????
Swimming in velvet-jacket-draped poontang after getting that crowd around you & taking the top score at close of the pool hall ;)
Hi, not not Boston, neither Lincs UK or ma USA, I was playing in London, Heathrow airport, central London arcades, local shops in west London@@defenderandoom7833
Amazing how advanced and hard this game was! Feels good hearing and seeing this at 54 you know thus was my era
I put a crap ton of quarters in this game. I was pretty good. Those sounds brought back memories.
Robotron was worse 😭
Because there were Hardness settings from 1-10, that the programmers put in. So that the owners of the machine could select a difficulty, which made the game harder. Requiring you to pump more quarters in to play.
Gravitar was also tuff
Those lasers were the sound of 'our people'
Wow the sounds of DEFENDER has the best sound effects ever in a video game .Freaking amazing!!!
100% agree
WOW!😍 I've never seen anyone score this high! I'm enjoying this more than Netflix.😄😄😄
Me too! 😂
Defender and Stargate both had such iconic sounds. All Williams games to be honest.
these and nintendo games did pretty good with single channel ,analog,no buffer sounds . u can hear by the sounds getting left out when system is maxed. yet still good gameplay. these guys where the true masters of programming . not like today where they release everything with [obvious] bugs then constantly update to fix ,,,and still never fix everything . even with limited tech people back then took pride in their work . wasnt just the money. REAL nerds lol aaah i miss them. nowdays nerds have wives n kids ,prob why soo many mistakes lol
Thanks for being honest.
omg!!!!!!! the sounds of this game are epic. they are permanently etched in my brain
Totally, saw this & came just for the sounds...
Metaphorically, and physically 😏
Damn, you mastered those baiters. You are the master baiter.
Hahaha. Might be related to Master Bates?
This brings back memories from my days at university. I remember seeing Defender when it first arrived at the Unicentre commons. I shoveled so many quarters into that thing. I should have saved them and bought my own cabinet ;-).
I have three strong memories. The first is competing for top position with my CompSci classmate Charlie for first on the leader board.
The second was when Williams came to town to determine the best Defender player. They came in and set the game up with a one ship start. Only those on the leaderboard could compete. We went in reverse order so I went last solely because I’d tipped Charlie the day before. I remember being nervous and scoring about 380k with one ship. Charlie had a few hundred more than me when I died. I believe he won the city championship.
Third, playing for a long time and then handing over the game to someone watching because I had to get to a lecture. Charlie and I did this frequently. I’m sure it created some bragging rights from those that took our games over with their friends 😜.
And then Stargate came out. It was good but Defender remains my favourite. I hope to one day build one as a retirement project, which isn’t far off! Time flies.
I never did roll the game. That’s impressive, though. As are the comments from others who’ve done so. I know Charlie did roll it and I know he saw the scrolling bug too. Once he rolled it he always played by killing all his humanoids and playing in space. Total chaos.
This is impressive! 😀 I remember playing this years ago with a mate and we were playing for so long that the shop owner came over and unplugged the game cos he was closing up for the night! He simply refused to believe that we were playing just one doubles game for so long.
Nice. I knew about picking up all the humanoids; didn't know about the humanoids floating in the atmosphere. :)
Yes one of the many bugs. I was wondering if they would score 500 again when reaching the mountain but no. They only move down when you're on screen with them hence why I keep them together with me. Having all ten on screen together helps to keep the processor busy which triggers the logic they built into the game to transport objects to the other side of the planet when things get too much for the processor, hence you see baiters constantly disappearing, which helps to stay alive.
Absolutely mad skills on display here.
I loved Defender but it was one of those games I just couldn’t master.
It would always induce a panic when I played it that I’d press the wrong buttons at the wrong time. 😂
Williams was the center of the videogame world. A list of classics ten miles long.
The games extreme difficulty and its control layout scared alot of people away (some people would try out and quit after one play) which was a great thing because the last thing I needed was a line up to get in my way to having a Defender session.
My nephew and one of my friends at the same age (all of us born in 1962) who all got into the machine and once comfortable with it we actively sought out the machine to play and sometimes when playing we would switch with each other so one of us could relax and have a smoke or use the washroom etc
Once you became one with the machine you could spend hours upon hours and set records with only one quarter!
My initials CAB was at the 1st few spots on a few machines
Thanks for the great playthrough!
You definitely are a great player and it's nice to see one!
If ever there is an Alien invasion, you will be called upon.
Fantastic stuff
Proper nostalgia
Had the
High score in my town on Defender and Scramble.
Respect to all who were playing this in 1980/81
I was a Scramble player too, got 13 times through the maze on my highest score game, around 314k or thereabouts
@@DonGrose I got about 5 or 6
@@EricPetersen2922 through the maze? Very good. You only have a max of 4 lives with Scramble don't you so it's difficult to go on indefinitely, eventually you're going to slip up somewhere
A friend of mine bought a Stargate machine, and I learned the game without having to pay .25 every time. After several weeks, I was totally dominating the game at the arcade. And yes...huge crowds. I was the scoreboard leader for a solid 6 months until the dethroning which I respected. Just HEARING the sounds on this game brought me back several decades. Total music to my ears. Thank you!
You are an amazing Defender Player! So cool to see the humans return down the screen. Thanks for sharing this!
No worries, thanks
I played Defender in arcades back in the early 1980s. It was absolutely my favorite arcade game by far. I remember everything about it perfectly, and these sounds .....SO familiar even 40years later.
I came for the sounds.
Both metaphorically and physically.
Edit: wtf? no props on that detrimental & degenerate dirty joke about coming here to hear the sounds, and cumming to hearing the sounds? DOES HUMOR NOT EXIST ANY LONGER!?
@@Beatdown.Babylon Hello, do you remember any commericals/ads coming out to present the release of this game? Anything you can provide would likely point me in the direction to sourcing seeable content. I just heard it was showcased in gaming magazines prior to release.
@@user-vg7vl8iv9oI gotchu homie slicer:
Defender for 2600:
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Great samples in the 1st 30 seconds:
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Those are from Atari2600 commercials, they're the gold standard in early video game commercials.
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For the time these game were top notch.This and Robotron. We’re my 2 faves. I was 12 (1982) when I discovered this game at my local candy store. By 1985 and I was as you say “clocking it”(I like that term) Our term was “Turning it over” Great Gameplay bud. Oh man this brings back such memories. I always meant to get this in my house one day. Don’t know if I’ll have the reflex anymore. 😂
"Clocking" (A Brit phrase mate) was the word we all used. Especially with "Asteroids". But yeah, Defender was my all-time fave arcade game back then. Especially when I got that Holy Grail piece of thick pink strimmer ( weed whackers in the US?) cord that you bent into shape so that you could stick it in the coin slot and get Credits for free! Naughty! heh heh 😉
Hello, do you remember any commericals/ads coming out to present the release of this game? I am hoping to source seeable content. I just heard it was showcased in gaming magazines prior to release.
Also my two favorites! Defender and Robotron. We used the terms “turning it over” in Florida. Myself and one other friend were able to master Defender enough to turn it over. The first time I did it the kids in the arcade were “spazzing out” as we said on 1980s speak🤣 Robotron was awesome too ! One quarter and three friends could take turns playing.
@@tonyg.9204 absolutely! what we did, I’m sure you did this too. We used to put our quarters up on the machine like on the glass and everybody “I’m next I’m next” that’s mine. That’s mine. That’s quarters mine. was like 20 quarters going across. And we would have like 20 kids in back of us watching because they know we could turn it over something like social media now where you watch people on twitch have a great games. We would turn it over and then we would just hand it off so they can play.
Great nostalgia, my buddy and i had an original cabinet in the 90s in his flat. In the mid 80s we played it at school lunchtimes in a fish n chip shop. Hats of to the Williams programmers.
My older brother Jam clocked Defender back in the mid 80's. He was the Defender king of West Yorkshire!
Somehow this is what Sega took inspiration for their Defender Cute em up 6 years later, Fantasy Zone.
Me and my buddy used to shoot all mutants except 2 ... capture them and have fun.. if i had of had more momey him and i probably score this high or better., he used to play 18hrs oon stargate with that technique. Lol..
U guys are incredible this game was tough and took alot of money,....
This was the greatest arcade game ever made and I was one of the best video players that played this game I could always go over one million I could play forever on one quarter
Clocked this game a lot of times back in the 80's at my local arcade, feels good when you reach the final stage and every thing you kill is a free ship.
To me it was a waste of time continuing after clocking the game so I just ended up giving my game away to the person that was lucky enough to be standing there watching me clock it.
Thanks for the memories.
And a free smart bomb. Problem was, you didn't get extras till you reached your next 400,000 points.
@gaskellr44 it wasn't necessarily 400,000. The whole thing is a bug and it ends up taking as many 10ks as extras you won before you get the lives back again. One trick is to try to get just over 100 free lives during the 990k period as this will clock that count. So for example if you get 50 free lives during the 990k period you'll start earning lives again after 500k. But if you get say 103 free lives during the free period then you'll start earning lives again after only 30k.
TBH, I managed to only clock it once but saw quite a few do it a few times off one 10p back in the day. How can one control how many extra lives and of course smart bombs during that 10K window? Is it by shooting less value enemies. TBH not completely sure I fully understand what you are meaning but thanks for the info.@@DonGrose
You right actually, as I rem now when I did, clock it, it was about 300,000 ish when I started to get lives and s bombs again, but it was so fast, I didn't last too long. This was also back in the day, when we played it in arcades, knocking on 1982, so well before Mame was about. I also did the thing you talked about a few times, with the things you pick up and land, going to the top and floating down slowly. There were other arcade games that had bugs like Ghost n Ghools. Think I was the only one in our town who completed it.I am sure the makers put these in for fun? Well maybe?@@DonGrose
@@gaskellr44 well the defender bugs are well known to be indeliberate. There's a defender Facebook group where you sometimes hear from the developers. When the game was released no-one had scored above 70k and they didn't anticipate that anyone would get anywhere near a million. The 990k bug was entirely unknown and unseen prior to the game's release. The game play really matures as you get into the multiples of 100k but none of that was ever really intentionally designed.
What a presence Defender had in the arcade especially when it was set loud! Unforgettable game, I loved it back in the '80s
I played this in my 600xl. Many summers in the 80s were spent in front of this game
I had my regular machine at Town and Country Billiards but the day I decided to turn it over, I got on my bike and rode down to Castle Golf and Games (SF Peninsula). I don’t remember much of a crowd but I do remember handing the game off to some other kid at 1.5 million. Had to get home in time for dinner.
This was my all time arcade game, but never seen anyone this good at it... awesome 👌brought back so many memories over 40 yes ago and still great game.
Hello, do you remember any commericals/ads coming out to present the release of this game? I am hoping to source seeable content. I just heard it was showcased in gaming magazines prior to release.
1st wave was stupidly CHRONIC !
Awesome. Nice one.
Great gameplay.
This was my favourite game in the '80s but boy, Williams came out with some killer stuff. This and Robotron were a nightmare. I don't think I got past level 2 on either of them! I'd give anything to go back to being 16 again!
Hello, do you remember any commericals/ads coming out to present the release of this game? I am hoping to source seeable content. I just heard it was showcased in gaming magazines prior to release.
Found this game play today. It actually soothed me to sleep with the sounds. Refound familiarity for this 55 yo was key. TFS ✌🏼
Glad it was of interest ! I guess all us orginal players are around mid fifties now. Any younger and you weren't quite going to arcades, any older and you've probably got other obsessions. 12/13/14 was probably the sweetspot age to want to play this to death.
The arcade games in the early eighties are iconic 🔥
Scored over a million when I was 15, can't even do 75000 in my late 50's lol. Fun to watch an expert player, thanks.
MY GOOD GOD never seen a master of this game at the pub when i was 14 FANTASTIC i'm 57 now what a gamer !!!!
thanks
If you want to watch someone's who's even on another level up from this, Google" Mikeville66 defender hardest settings."🤯
I was in high school taking a class at University of Hartford in 1981 when they added a defender machine to the student center. Never lost quarters so fast, but was never more enthralled. I would spent my lunch money on this game but never got past the 2nd or 3rd level. All these years later, I picked up the 1UP partycade defender machine, which is actually a not-bad emulation of the real thing with pretty accurate control layout and good responsiveness. I'm hoping to get better at it finally without digging up quarters. Thanks Don for posting this amazing gameplay video, you are obviously a defender god, hope to learn a thing or two watching your technique here.
good luck with that, I believe that is a 100% emulation of the original ROMs
There are certain tactics that will help a key tactic is to kill off all but 2 of your men at the bottom of the screen , it makes it easier to protect them and stops you having to deal with mutants. Basically st the start of the level let those two men get picked up then carry them until the end of the level, you can then clear the level without having to worry about losing your men
I wasn't fortunate enough to find one of the partycades before they were all sold and became scare. But I have adapted a little bit to an good Atari "fight stick" (the one that includes both a track ball and a spinner) using MAME, and I intend to build a custom Defender/Stargate cabinet this summer. A great - but fiendishly difficult - game that warrants a return to my junior high/high school past (class of 84). Both it and Asteroids are still quite challenging!
I remember in 1981 on the south coast of England, a 14 year old started playing Defender at the Beachlands arcade in the morning and clocked it 7 times and only stopped playing when the owners turned all the power off to close the arcade for the night. He also had all the high scores by getting 999975. He signed it "ADY". In order to get the high score was very tricky without accidentally clocking it. 25 points for being killed with a bullet. Zero point for dying by Hyperspace. The arcade owners made the settings harder, 3 men to start etc.
Sounds like a classic story that played out across the land, good memories. BTW 3 was always the default for Defender, but yes many operators upped the settings to make the game impossible to play longer than 10 mins or so.
@@DonGrose Is that right? I always assumed 5 was the default amount of ships/men. You live and learn. He used to draw a crowd when he was playing. Great to see and hear your recording, all the best.
@@ijustwanttoaskaquestion106 yes, you have to admire the confidence Williams had in the game as it was difficult enough as it was so to only give 3 they risked people just walking away from it. Check out the start of the vid you'll see just the 3, 2 in reserve and the one in play
I loved this game but I never saw past the 5 th wave or so I liked TEMPEST and pinball The Black Knight You are really good. They did the SOUNDS exceptionally good
Pretty good, I can pop a million at will. I’m 55 now, I started playing Defender the day it came out. Took me over a year to turn it over(million). Stargate was much easier. Great video, thx 😊
Hello, do you remember any commericals/ads coming out to present the release of this game? Anything you know of would help. I am creating a car build with a theme utilizing Defender. Hoping you can point me in the direction to see some photos, etc.
sadly zero. It popped up all over the area I lived when it came out. I never saw any marketing-other than video game magazine articles nothing else, I’m a life long player. I was born in 66 & remember the release well. I still play very strong(I have a standup with a CRT in it and it’s mint).
If you find anything pls let me know. Sorry that’s all I have.
Used to play defenders in the arcade almost everyday. And don't forget his big brother defender Stargate. "YILABEIN DOG FOGHT"
I remember going to the arcade, 10 tokens for a buck but the way to make it last while my mom was shopping in the mall forever was to watch people like you play. Like watching pro sports.
thanks, I used to watch the 'pro' players back in the early 80s and eventually managed to pick up the tricks myself
I used to turn it over on a quarter back in the day, almost the only game i played at the arcade. one dollar i could play for hours..so much fun.
Not all heroes wear capes... Unless you were playing this while wearing a cape... Great Job and Great Vid :D
many thanks
Your dogfighting is insane...im mesmerized
Masterful playing, I was fanatic about defender when it came out, the dedication it took to reach a level where you could usually "clock" it was crazy., I also loved doing ten man pick up lol. My big regret is i never got to play stargate the sequel to defender
not too late to play Stargate, available on MAME and you can buy a great game controller that replicates the Defender/Stargate controls
That was all out war to the very end. A goddamn tour de force.
I used to dream of being this good. I used to find a quarter, walk 15 minutes to a convenience store, play for probably less than a minute, and walk 15 minutes home. I loved Defender but always sucked at it.
Yes I remember my first game at an arcade at Heathrow airport in the early 80s where I lasted about 30 seconds. In the UK the game was 20p as well whereas most games at that time were 10p. You got 3 for 50p so with a mate we could at least do 3 games of doubles for slightly less. I never thought I'd be able to get good at it but on relfection it's not as if I had endless money to spend. There was a culture of watching others and learning the tricks. I just found my score growing into the 100k then the 400k and I remember my first game past 700k where it felt like clocking it was going to be possible. I finally clocked it at an arcade in Tottenham Court Road in London. It was a choice between clocking and not getting your name up or trying to leave it at 999975 but the first time there I just wanted to clock it. I subsequently did a few 999975's. It probably took 4 years to learn to clock from the age of 13 to 16 or so. I've tried to master Robotron since but even with endless free plays I can't get more than a couple of million. In this recording I rely on smarts way too much past 1million and can see lots of silly mistakes. There's no reason I should have ended where I did but at least I did all the things I wanted to do.
Lol those damn baiters!! getting swarmed by them and mutants....good times!!
Defender is hardcore!
Wow amazing Don! I the fb link from the williams group
This game stole enough quarters from me to affect my financial future!!!
my god i loved this game in 1981
I was never good at this game back in the day. But thanks to you I am referring to this video to do my port of Defender on the Atari 7800 (which unfortunately was the only Atari console NOT to get a Defender port).
Also... Thank you Mr.Don Grose...
For making me feel young again 😂
Awesome game play and skills!!!!
thanks !
Wow youre amazing at this.
This is one of the games where I barely survived the 1st wave. It was way too difficult for me.
takes lots of practice. I have no idea how I managed to master the game on 10p pieces in the 80s, but like riding a bike you never forget how to play
Same yet there were people who could play all day.
My stepfather always talks about this game but this is the first instance of me seeing hide nor hare of it
I can only clock defender by shooting my men & leaving one or two. I’ve never seen anyone click this the way your playing it.
Impressive.
cheers, yes I suggest to try to play without killing off the humans. Killing them and leaving a couple is a good way to get better at the later stages but if you can then transition to keeping them it's worth a lot more points and actually makes the game easier as you're hitting 10k new man for less exposure to game play, ie each end wave bonus takes you closer to or beyond the next extra without having had to risk death getting there and that all adds up
@@DonGrose I agree, keep the humans! I got barred from playing this in a pub in Portsmouth UK for racking up a 600,000 odd score one night back in 1982. Bar owner said I was costing him profits, ha! did you think it was difficult because it had so many buttons? I love this game!
I clocked Defender at Bassingbourn Barracks in 1984.
"Omg" That's just crazy skills......I NEVER GOT TO THE 3rd LEVEL....
Amazing, truly amazing🤩🤩🤩
Had a huge crowd behind me and clocked it.... Ok it took about 30 bucks to get too that level.... But as the saying goes...you gotta pay your dues🎉
This game was hard AF at the arcade. Too many buttons and shit to keep track of.
Awesome 😎👍
OMG, I had forgotten about the part of the game where all the Landers turn into Mutants when the last human dies. I would always stop at 999,975 for the leader board position. Hanging 10 Humans and wrapping them around was always the coolest part of the game, a glitch as I recall, I think I did it once in wave 4, not sure. Back in the fall of 1981 when I played this the most there was nowhere to go to find out the tricks and strategies. Playability> Graphics. Thanks to Eugene Jarvis.
Yeh in those days everything was word of mouth in the arcades wasn't it. Somehow a mate of mine always used to find out stuff and tell me, things like 22/14 count in Space Invaders for 300 point spaceship you would never find by accident. Defender is full of things that you might come across by accident but you watched other players. It's amazing how much in Defender was a bug or oversight that actually added to the game.
Williams games were not for the faint of heart. Within a few waves most players were toast.
That's like all those people at Clarkston trying to drag you down,,attack you.They be making those noises and s-t!!! "I'll get you!"
Whoa that's some skill! Score clocked AND level clocked. Pity the All Time high score board doesn't recognize a clocking!
thank you, not too bothered about keeping the high score in the table
I won a competition back in the day playing this. I remember being a complete nervous wreck in the final. I needn't have worried because I won easily. I'm pretty sure I've still got the trophy in a cardboard box somewhere in the loft :)
nice!
Yeah back in the day, you really had to master the controls to have a remote chance of doing well when it gets intense or you panic and end up pressing the wrong button.
Definitely the bullet-hell shoot-em-up of its generation before the likes of the modern vertical shumps.
Back in the days of the arcade scene, anyone who reached this level, everyone would stop what they are doing to witness watch their eyes were seeing.
@@rroberts2023 I was good but Not on the level of some people... But that was so long ago. I actually thought my Gaming days were over. Stand up Pub / Arcade gaming days certainly were... But when PC's got really popular (or at least when I got one), in the early 2,000's someone got me into a racing game called *"Trackmania"* and (with one of my adopted daughters), we played it for Years. I ended up Ranked 98'th in the world out of over 7 Million players... I'm sure I could have got a lot further too. But I start creating (In Game) Race Tracks and posting them on the Trackmania websites. I believe quite a few of my tracks are still played online... I made a few vids of some of them. But I stopped playing the game a couple of years ago.
Dave Foley. Star Gate Defender!
Wow. Amazing.
One of 2 games I was any good at. Defender was my go to as I was top dog at this back in the day. Not played it for the thick end of 40 years though
give it a try on mame with a controller from facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004438096224
Extra class , suuper drift.
Dudes on point.
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed that masterful performance. Were you a player in the arcade back in the day? This emulation is so incredibly spot on. I knew about the 10drop bug leaching over to the top of the screen, but in all my time of playing back in the day, I never realised they would fall slowly back down : because I was always in such a hurry to knock out the last lander before the baiters came. It was sooo good to see all those techniques once again - like the snap reversal method of taking out a single mutant and falling in behind the swarmers. I love the way you got in the zone in the second half, you know..... where it all become so automatic, intuitive and fast that you're not even thinking about it any more. I couldn't beat your baiter play! that first round with all those baiters was masterful. I think I might have been a tiny bit better at handling mutants, but man you were deadly with those baiters. ...........................Tell me you're using a joystick and button set up something like the original? - surely all that spot-on timing and movement cant be done on a keyboard can it ? Thanks for recording and posting this - I was on the edge of my seat for every second. Lots of sequences where pure art : particularly liked from 1:01:16 to the loss of that ship- that little sequence seemed to have all the subtle techniques all happening beautifully one after the other.
Thanks for such a well considered review, you clearly know the game very well yourself. Yes you can buy an excellent dedicated Defender/Stargate joystick and buttons controller from a guy called Mike Hanson, search on Facebook. Slightly smaller scale to the original but allows for 100% authentic play. The humans trick is interesting, you come to realise they only actually move when on screen, unlike all the other moving parts, so you have to keep them on screen to have them move down. Yes the gameplay with defender settles after about 400k doesn't it where you get in the zone. In many ways play becomes easier at that point as your skills are trained for the highest level. The game seems to have been designed so well to cater for that stage but apparently the game designers themselves never saw scores above about 100k before the game was realised and never anticipated anyone really beating that kind of score. Even today I heard the high score of one of the 2 main designers is only around 70k. It's an insanely well crafted game, but it seems some of the design outcomes were also plain luck because no-one was playing it at the highest level. The free live per hit for example at 990k is a bug. Getting safely behind swarmers wasn't designed that way, it just happens that way.
@@DonGrose That's amazing history - (I didn't know those things). The 990k bug must be the best accidental game feature every - the sound effect at that stage for each hit is a fantastic celebration of the home-straight. Yep, certainly know the game: hard to believe, but despite not having played for over 35 years, I can still make out permanent callouses on the end knuckles of my little finger and ring finger of my left hand. The stick was quite short on those original cabinets - great for sensitivity, but pretty hard on knuckles which would rub on the panel. A misspent youth perhaps, but very happy memories.
@@DonGrose I just bought another machine, I’ve had many over the years. How can I find you? Would be fun to meet and chat. Best Eric Petersen
@@EricPetersen2922 Hi Eric, you've bought an original arcade Defender? I used to have one at home but eventually sold it due to space and the need to keep it repaired which isn't my area of expertise. Where abouts are you?
yes I bought a original arcade machine with a CRT monitor that’s not burned. It’s a very nice machine. I’ve had several over the years. I play very strong, I’ve played Defender since day 1. I’m 56 years old. I’m living in Los Angeles Ca. I travel a lot and often internationally and here in America. Went last weekend to the pinball expo in Chicago-that was fun.
I don’t use social media, I play backgammon all over the world, that’s been my thing last 10 years. Great group of people, mostly biz men like myself.
Where do you live? 😃
Wow I know how hard this game is,nice play
The 6809 CPU at its best!
To anybody watching this nowadays without actually playing Defender back in its day let me tell you now just 1 baiter was enough to cause a heart attack to most players.
I tried playing this game. I was just wasting coins. Still hung out there though. Then games like Double Dragon came along. 40cents a game. Got really good on that.
EPIC!
there nasty those mutants on a blown up world
That's the pro gamer version! Feels like I played it 😀
I'm a real Defender nerd and In my youth I played the original arcade for countless hours.
My record was about 3,8 million points and I often clocked the arcade when I played it in different cinema foyers.
Also I made an exact copy of the original Defender controller layout for my Mame, because it's almost
impossible to play it perfectly with other controllers or keyboard. Which controller did you used?
It looks very smooth, I wonder if it's not also an original selfmade controller layout 😉
your record is higher than mine, in fact my record is this recording ! I only wanted to clock it and couldn't be doing with keep playing. I wanted to survive the goldilocks period however and only just do so in this recording. This recording is probably my ultimate game, with all my records together plus the floating humans trick
My number 1 game and to see you play it out like that was/is brilliant. (I'll have to watch this in segments over the coming days ✌️)
God I remember being able to play at this level, not sure the fingers would be that nimble anymore?
Wow, remember the smart bomb and you would wait u til they all got together and blew them up lol. He needs skills,I never got killed in the first few waves. He’s doing kinda of good now.
yes getting the pods together is the way to sustain your score together ideally with not killing the humans so you get lots of extra points there too from the 500/500 plus the bonuses at wave end
Great defence
I realize kind of old post video, but did you buy your defender mame controller or did you make it. I could make it but I'm lazy LOL. I have mostly all parts just need idea for the wood box or whatever it is all put into.
Hi, I bought one from a guy called Mike Hanson, search on facebook. Excellent controllers with the same joystick and buttons as the original. Format is slightly smaller but that doesn't affect game play. He does a dedicated Defender/Stargate one and also has ones for Robotron, Asteroids, others....
Great Defending Don! A question for you, why do you go to the bottom of the screen on the start of an attack wave?
Thanks, I guess force of habit mainly but somehow I ended up at that position as what seems to be a sweet spot for smarting all 4 pods. From that position you can rise up during the smart to add to the processor drain which seems to help prevent pods splitting and generating more for the processor. You can also thrust of from there and create an elongated smart area as is you're at full speed during a smart you'll capture more and this sometimes gets a fourth pod otherwise off screen from the other three. In truth you can probably do all that without moving to the bottom!
Great game! What sort of control panel are you using? Computer keyboard, or something custom?
thanks, I use a custom controller from Mike Hanson facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004438096224
Best game ever
I wish there was D3. It seems like unfinished business.
*At **1:49:33** is a real shit show! What an attack! So many aliens at one time!*
How did you get files decoder.1 and video_sound_rom_1.ic12?
Just got the entire sets from the internet, you can search, but locations keep changing. If you request to join Williams Defender Players Unite group on FB someone there will tell you where to get them today.
Man you can really get around those bombs but sometimes it's impossible unfair
Clocked it seven times back in a day and all for 10p
That bug where the walkers are in mid air…
Do you have any tips to get good at this? Every time I play I get destroyed utterly.
Hi, back in the day you learnt by watching other players and attempting their moves. Suggest to watch closely what's happening in the video and others on line and just start attempting similar.
What specifically constitutes an "ATTACK WAVE" for shits and giggles....
Are you using a gamepad for this? or is this the original arcade controls?
Hi it's a controller from Mike Hanson
I would love to buy one with updated electronics