Defender Type shoot em up

[DH]

Was there ever a 'Defender' horizontal scrolling shoot em up for the Amiga. I used to have one for the C64 taken from the original 'Williams Defender' which was almost, if not, exactly like the original arcade version.



The nearest thing I have ever had was 'Datastorm' on the Amiga but this lacks the same beasties, gameplay and sounds etc.....

Surely someone has done a remake for the Amiga

[s2325]

Try http://hol.abime.net/5508 http://hol.abime.net/3890 http://hol.abime.net/5709 I think I have some other PD version(s) at home.

[DH]

Cheers s2325

Looks like the 'Defender (Acid) is like the one I had ages ago on the Amiga (forgot about that one )

I was wondering if there was a commercial release using the original Williams graphics, sounds etc, like there was on the C64

[DH]

Hmm. Found 'Zeron' by Acid Software. Looking and sounding much closer to the original

[IFW]

Datastorm:
http://hol.abime.net/281

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by DemonHellraiser

The nearest thing I have ever had was 'Datastorm' on the Amiga but this lacks the same beasties, gameplay and sounds etc.....

[Mad-Matt]

There was also 'Overkill' . An aga defender 'style' game. probably couldnt be further away from the original defender gfx though

http://hol.abime.net/2337

[DH]

Cheers Mad-Matt

Will check it out, although it looks like the game has already changed too much from the Williams arcade version. But nice find

[Galahad/FLT]

Anarchy by Psygnosis: http://hol.abime.net/3267

Starray by Logotron aka Revenge of Defender: http://hol.abime.net/2096

[Anubis]

Strange, yesterday on break I played that Blitz Basic Defender clone. (first link on the top)

When I have a time I play some of disk mags.

[Graham Humphrey]

There's also Defender 2. Albeit with bizarre mouse control if I remember rightly.

[spajdr]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

There's also Defender 2. Albeit with bizarre mouse control if I remember rightly.

Looks like it have also Defender I included

[Graham Humphrey]

Yes indeed it does, which is why I posted it but completely forgot to point that out

[DH]

@ Galahad/FLT, Graham Humphrey

Excellent

Now I've got loads to try out to see which one represents the original Williams Defender.

Awesome

[InTheSand]

The BBC Micro version was the best!!!

- Ali

[DH]

I know it's not Amiga, but Ive just found my Dos version of 'Williams Defender', burnt to disk and left to collect dust it was, 'cause I couldn't use it when I changed to XP

But with the thanks of DosBox, mentioned in a different thread, I'm now playing Defender 1 and 2 and Galaxians etc. Now these are the original games, whooooohooooo! I'm back in the 80's once more

[TCD]

Nice program this DosBox isn't it? It's great for the Dos only retro games Hope you don't forget the Miggy though mate

[DH]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

... Hope you don't forget the Miggy though mate

Now how could I forget the the miggy, it was truly one of the best computer machines in the world and outstripped the PC Dos games by a huge margin

I would still like to get an Amiga version exactly like the original, you know I wonder if there is a game designer/coder on EAB that could tackle this. You can get all the original sounds from Defender, and it can't be that hard to create 'cause it's quite a simple little game but it's awesome.

Now there's a challenge for someone, who's first in line to try

[s2325]

some gameplay
Defender (Acid): [ Show youtube player ]
Defender II: [ Show youtube player ]
Cybernetix: [ Show youtube player ]

[Kitty]

Why use dosbox when you can experience the original game with Mame?