- Shooter, Strategy, Action, Science fiction
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.
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Plot-driven, grave, earnest and relentless.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- Arcade, Web browser, Mac
- Developer
- Williams Electronics, Digital Eclipse Software
- Publisher
- Williams Electronics, Shockwave
- Released
- March 1, 1981
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Side view
- Time to beat
- 1 h main story
IGDB rating 5.9/10 from 38 ratings.
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