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Defender is a port of the Williams arcade game of the same name. The game was released in 1982 and is one of only four games released for the little-known Entex Adventure Vision console, and was the pack-in cartridge supplied with the unit.
Williams' Defender should need no introduction, but just in case, your Defender ship has to protect the humans on Earth from attacking invaders. In particular, the Lander's try to carry off the humans and if they manage to reach the top of the screen, they change into Mutant's which are much more deadly.
The version for the Adventure Vision does a good job of replicating the arcade experience on such a limited console. This machine is capable of displaying a resolution of just 150 x 40 'pixels' and only in red. The unit features a joystick and four buttons (eight if you include player two's buttons). This allows the console to assign buttons for firing, hyperspace and for activating the Smart Bomb (which wipes out all enemies on-screen).
The arcade game has many different types of enemy, but in the Adventure Vision version, you only have the main five - but that's enough! These are the Landers - which try to kidnap humans - and the Mutants that result if you fail to stop the Landers. There are also Pods, which in themselves are harmless (unless you crash into one), but if you shoot them, they turn into a number of Swarmers. Swarmers are a pain, being very small, very agile and taking up quite a bit of the screen when they are together. The final enemy in this version is the Bomber. These travel the screen slowly, dropping mines which you can collide with.
If you shoot a Lander while it is carrying a human, it will fall to the ground and you can collect points for catching it and returning it safely to Earth. This is important, as if all all humans are killed, the Earth disappears and you are left to fight in space. The aliens come in Waves and if you destroy a Wave, you move on to the next one.
Despite the limited resolution and colour of this system, Defender on the Adventure Vision is surprisingly playable and entertaining. It gives a smoother and more controllable game than I expected, although shooting your enemy can be tricky - they have a small part of the entire sprite that must be shot, so try hitting them dead centre. The limited screen resolution does mean the screen can get a little busy (I often struggled to see stolen or dropped humanoids for example), but then the arcade game itself often used to overwhelm you with what was on-screen, so that is kind of ok here! I enjoyed it, despite the systems limitations.
This run was made on the 11th April 2026. There are no selectable difficulty settings or game variations. The emulator is the Adventure Vision core running on a MiSTer Multisystem 2. The final score was 19,900 points. The onscreen colour is actually red, but my recording device has 'corrected' this to more of an orange colour. The sound also did not record very well.
Time stamps:
00:30 Game start.
00:32 Activated Smart Bomb.
00:57 First life lost.
01:43 First Wave cleared.
01:47 Shot a Pod, releasing Swarmers.
01:54 Second life lost.
02:05 Third life lost.
03:01 Second Wave cleared.
03:12 Fourth life lost.
03:29 Extra life and Extra Smart Bomb for passing 10,000 points.
03:47 Fifth life lost.
04:21 Third Wave cleared.
04:44 All humans lost. The Earth is destroyed.
04:55 Getting revenge with my last Smart Bomb.
05:03 Sixth life lost.
05:30 Seventh life lost. Game Over. Final score 19,900 points.
Williams' Defender should need no introduction, but just in case, your Defender ship has to protect the humans on Earth from attacking invaders. In particular, the Lander's try to carry off the humans and if they manage to reach the top of the screen, they change into Mutant's which are much more deadly.
The version for the Adventure Vision does a good job of replicating the arcade experience on such a limited console. This machine is capable of displaying a resolution of just 150 x 40 'pixels' and only in red. The unit features a joystick and four buttons (eight if you include player two's buttons). This allows the console to assign buttons for firing, hyperspace and for activating the Smart Bomb (which wipes out all enemies on-screen).
The arcade game has many different types of enemy, but in the Adventure Vision version, you only have the main five - but that's enough! These are the Landers - which try to kidnap humans - and the Mutants that result if you fail to stop the Landers. There are also Pods, which in themselves are harmless (unless you crash into one), but if you shoot them, they turn into a number of Swarmers. Swarmers are a pain, being very small, very agile and taking up quite a bit of the screen when they are together. The final enemy in this version is the Bomber. These travel the screen slowly, dropping mines which you can collide with.
If you shoot a Lander while it is carrying a human, it will fall to the ground and you can collect points for catching it and returning it safely to Earth. This is important, as if all all humans are killed, the Earth disappears and you are left to fight in space. The aliens come in Waves and if you destroy a Wave, you move on to the next one.
Despite the limited resolution and colour of this system, Defender on the Adventure Vision is surprisingly playable and entertaining. It gives a smoother and more controllable game than I expected, although shooting your enemy can be tricky - they have a small part of the entire sprite that must be shot, so try hitting them dead centre. The limited screen resolution does mean the screen can get a little busy (I often struggled to see stolen or dropped humanoids for example), but then the arcade game itself often used to overwhelm you with what was on-screen, so that is kind of ok here! I enjoyed it, despite the systems limitations.
This run was made on the 11th April 2026. There are no selectable difficulty settings or game variations. The emulator is the Adventure Vision core running on a MiSTer Multisystem 2. The final score was 19,900 points. The onscreen colour is actually red, but my recording device has 'corrected' this to more of an orange colour. The sound also did not record very well.
Time stamps:
00:30 Game start.
00:32 Activated Smart Bomb.
00:57 First life lost.
01:43 First Wave cleared.
01:47 Shot a Pod, releasing Swarmers.
01:54 Second life lost.
02:05 Third life lost.
03:01 Second Wave cleared.
03:12 Fourth life lost.
03:29 Extra life and Extra Smart Bomb for passing 10,000 points.
03:47 Fifth life lost.
04:21 Third Wave cleared.
04:44 All humans lost. The Earth is destroyed.
04:55 Getting revenge with my last Smart Bomb.
05:03 Sixth life lost.
05:30 Seventh life lost. Game Over. Final score 19,900 points.