[HN Gopher] Defender (1981) by Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker ___________________________________________________________________ Defender (1981) by Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker Author : mwenge Score : 53 points Date : 2021-07-12 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | detaro wrote: | Very cool. | | I'm curious, how did the source become public? Did the creators | release it, was it found somewhere, ...? | mwcremer wrote: | The README states the source came from | https://github.com/historicalsource/defender. "A collection of | historical source files, for education and perusal." Which begs | the question, where did Historical Source get it? Alas, there | is no indication. | hermitcrab wrote: | Defender was head and shoulders above every other arcade game | when it was released. It consumed quite a bit of my pocket money. | louthy wrote: | Truly one of the great games of the era. The pace and slickness | of the movement felt head and shoulders above the rest. I lost | many hours! | Kaibeezy wrote: | Agree, it was special in multiple ways: - The | idea that you were orbiting the planet, somehow more than 2D, | yet not 3D. - Not just shooting but also rescuing. | - The speed, fluid movement and quick reverses. - Color | and sound crucial to situational awareness. | | I sometimes imagine it as a first-person game, true 3D, view | from the cockpit. Wouldn't that be something! | louthy wrote: | The first title I worked on in the games industry was a game | called Lunatik, which was billed as a 3D Defender (for PS1, | Saturn, and PC). It never worked. | | I wrote some comments on this article [1] about why it | failed, if you're interested. | | [1] https://www.unseen64.net/2020/11/16/lunatik-pure- | entertainme... | mrlonglong wrote: | This was also known as Planetoid on the old 8 bit BBC B micro and | was sold by Acornsoft. It wa a fantastic frenetic game back then! | Damogran6 wrote: | I received a broken Defender cab for free. Two memory chips, a | better ground strap, and a powersupply and it was back in | business. My 6 year old twins and I played it for several | years...I realized that no matter how much practice I got, I was | never going to get any better at it. It then helped fund | christmas one year. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-12 23:00 UTC)