{"id":694,"date":"2006-10-04T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T13:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=694"},"modified":"2007-04-14T05:49:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T12:49:37","slug":"defender-ii-midway-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Defender II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Defender\"Defender<\/a>Defender<\/a> is a horizontally scrolling shoot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122em up arcade game created in 1980 by Williams Electronics<\/a>. Designed by Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar, Sam Dicker and Paul Dussault, this game was a hit when it was released and remained popular for several years after its launch.<\/p>\n

Defender II is similar to the original Defender, but with more bonuses and more deadly enemies.<\/p>\n

Here is what you can read in the very well documented help section of the game: “You are in control of the ship, Defender. Your mission is to protect the defenseless astronauts on the planet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surface from the alien menace invading your world. The world is small; it takes about five seconds to fly completely around it. On the top of the screen, you will see a map showing the entire world, your position, and the position of all enemies and astronauts”.<\/p>\n

Tap the arrow keys to move and press space bar to fire. Hold the left or right key to accelerate. Press ‘B’ to launch a smart bomb which, when fired, will destroy all enemies on the screen (but not their bullets or mines!). Press and hold the ‘V’ key to make your ship invisible and invulnerable for as long as you hold it or until the power runs out (shown below your number of reserve ships). In case of emergency, press the ‘N’ key to go randomly to hyperspace but be warned, hyperspace will make you jump to a completely different part of the world, one that may be more lethal than the one you left!<\/p>\n

That being said, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of controls, maybe too complex for occasional gamers and you will need time to get used to them.<\/p>\n

Defender II is fast, addictive and very fun to play. Thanks to Digital Eclipse Software<\/a> and its arcade emulator applet that drives this Shockwave game (and several others available on MidwayArcade website<\/a>, but unfortunately less interesting), you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to spend money anymore (like I did a long time ago!) to enjoy this one: just insert (virtual spinning) quarters in the upper right corner of the game window (click the quarter to do so) and then click either the one or two player start button. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready to play with a 25 years old game: have fun!<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: the game has a local High Score system, which tracks only the highest scores on your computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defender is a horizontally scrolling shoot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122em up arcade game created in 1980 by Williams Electronics. Designed by Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar, Sam Dicker and Paul Dussault, this game was a hit when it was released and remained popular for several years after its launch. Defender II is similar to the original Defender, but with more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11,12,2,3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-minute","category-acade","category-free","category-games","category-online","category-shockwave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}