Defender is a 1981 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Williams Electronics for arcades. The game is set on either an unnamed planet...

Defender (subtitled For All Mankind outside North America) is a shoot 'em up video game developed in October 2002 for the PlayStation 2, and Xbox, and...

both the first scrolling platform game and the first platform shooter. Other arcade hits released in 1981 include Defender, Frogger, and the Galaxian sequel...

Sukuranburu) is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade video game released by Konami in 1981. It was distributed by Leijac for manufacture in Japan and...

released as an arcade video game in 1981 by Williams Electronics. Created by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar, it is a sequel to Defender which was released...

declarer Defender (1981 video game) Defender (2002 video game), a remake Defender, a 1982 pinball table based on the 1981 video game. The Chicago Defender, a...

Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most...

city from an impending volcanic explosion. The design of the game is inspired by Defender from Williams Electronics, though not a direct clone. The sequel...

Gorgon is a clone of the arcade video game Defender, a horizontally scrolling shooter, for the Apple II. It was programmed by Nasir Gebelli and published...

the U.S. arcade video game industry's revenue generated from quarters tripled to $2.8 billion. By 1981, the arcade video game industry in the United...

Vid Kidz was an American video game developer formed in 1981 by Defender programmers Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar, following their departure from Williams...

over three million copies. The game was widely imitated, and it directly influenced Defender, Gravitar, and many other video games. The objective of Asteroids...

shooter video game released for arcades in April 1977. Side-scrolling was later popularized by side-scrolling shoot 'em ups in the early 1980s. Defender, demonstrated...

highest-grossing arcade video game of 1981 (tied with Defender and Galaxian), and then the 19th highest-grossing arcade video game of 1982. Game Machine later listed...

also incorporated into the game's onscreen instructions and game-over message. Following the success of the 1981 game Defender, Williams searched for new...

first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware was released in the early 1970s. The first home video game console was the Magnavox...

vibrant industry. The arcade video game industry in the US alone was generating $5 billion of revenue annually in 1981 and the number of arcades doubled...

Defender 2000 is a 1996 scrolling shooter video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar. As part of Atari's...

The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, consoles, and computers in a New Mexico landfill site undertaken by the...

the history of video games, the second-generation era refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available...

designed Seaquest, and described the game as a reskin of the arcade game Defender (1981). He felt that the Atari 2600 adapted arcade games well, describing...

the union’s voice actors and motion capture artists against American video game companies signed to the union’s Interactive Media Agreements over failed...

The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985...

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Atlantis is a fixed shooter video game released by Imagic in August 1982 for the Atari 2600. The game is set in the fabled city of Atlantis where the...

1981 arcade game Defender, with faster gameplay and more detailed graphics and sound. The game was published in 1989 by Epyx as Revenge of Defender for...

Gremlins is a 1984 video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600. It is a tie-in to the 1984 film Gremlins. Atari released another...

is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Tehkan for arcades. It was released by Centuri in North America. It is the first game to be...

Missile Command is a 1980 shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. Sega released the game outside North America. It was designed...

is a 1979 multi-directional shooter arcade game by Nintendo. It is one of several Western-themed video games from the 1970s, along with Western Gun...