![]() ![]() Stargate is a fun game, and these days I play more casually, not really trying to perfect my skill.Īs someone else in the comments noted: Defender is more raw. I remember Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker talking about the Defender->Stargate upgrade process at the California Extreme arcade convention in 2014. I think this was because the Stargate chip was an upgrade-the faster CPU wouldn't steal time slices from me at odd moments, so the game was more predictable. What I noticed about Stargate back then, coming from Defender, was that it was easier to shoot things. ![]() For me, back in the day, I went from Stargate to Defender because the 7/11 got rid of their Defender and the Safeway on the next block got a Stargate :-) In fact these days it's the game I'm playing. This is maximum difficulty on the first-run ROM chips, the infamous Green ROMs:Īnd if you're interested in an instructional video of how to play:ĭefender was a big game back in the day, grossing about a billion dollars worldwide. Here's a player, mikeville66, whose video inspired me to get better. The above is running on JROK - custom silicon to emulate the original chip (much better than MAME), it's contained in an original cabinet, with an original monitor, and a custom built control panel, designed to be as authentic to the original as possible, and hand-built by Jim Bowley. For a brief moment, about four years back, I was the top player on the Williams Defender Players Unite facebook group at hard difficulty settings:Īnd, for the hackers, here's a version of the Defender ROM, modified by a programmer named Jim Bowley, to render an impossibly difficult version of the game: ![]()
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