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Title: Defender and Stargate - they live!
Post by: arzoo on February 25, 2011, 08:48:02 am
After years with both my Defender and Stargate non-functional and gathering dust, I finally found someone to come out to my home and get them working! ;D I had forgotten how much I enjoyed playing the Defender (which had been down for over 5 years) - but it only took about 8 games to get back into the groove and set the high score at 999725. Now I can try for the perfect high score (999975) which is always tricky as you risk hyper-spacing into an enemy and rolling over the million mark. It's also very strange to switch between the two games - Stargate plays so much faster than Defender.
Title: Re: Defender and Stargate - they live!
Post by: secret80sman on February 25, 2011, 06:50:22 pm
That's awesome man! I remember dropping many quarters into the Stargate machine at my local convenience store. When I would run out of money the shop owner would put me to work stocking shelves and then pay me a crappy wage of a few quarters so I could keep going. He got some cheap ass labor from me boy!   :lol
Title: Re: Defender and Stargate - they live!
Post by: TOK on February 26, 2011, 08:18:09 pm
Nice! Defender never gets boring for me. That game was years ahead of its time.
Title: Re: Defender and Stargate - they live!
Post by: Epyx on February 27, 2011, 12:11:31 am
Pictures or it never happened! ;)

In all seriousness though would love to see some updated pics with them working :)
Title: Re: Defender and Stargate - they live!
Post by: arzoo on March 01, 2011, 09:45:09 pm
Pictures or it never happened! ;)

In all seriousness though would love to see some updated pics with them working :)

Funny how small the two Williams games look with my monster rig in the middle!