• Defender is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Williams Electronics in 1980 and released as an arcade video game in 1981. The game is set on...
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  • 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...
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  • (2002 video game), a remake Defender, a 1982 pinball table based on the 1981 video game. The Chicago Defender, a Chicago-based online newspaper Defender, a...
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  • 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...
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  • both the first scrolling platform game and the first platform shooter. Other arcade hits released in 1981 include Defender, Frogger, and the Galaxian sequel...
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  • (スクランブル, Sukuranburu) is a horizontally scrolling shooter arcade video game released in 1981. It was developed by Konami and manufactured and distributed...
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  • Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the most...
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  • 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...
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  • over three million copies. The game was widely imitated, and it directly influenced Defender, Gravitar, and many other video games. The objective of Asteroids...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • also incorporated into the game's onscreen instructions and game-over message. Following the success of the 1981 game Defender, Williams searched for new...
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  • Szczepaniak of Hardcore Gaming 101 considers Data East's DECO Cassette System arcade title Flash Boy (1981), a scrolling action game based on the manga and...
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  • 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...
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  • Defender 2000 is a 1996 scrolling shooter video game developed by Llamasoft and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar. Part of Atari's 2000...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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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  • shooter video game developed and published by Konami. The first game in the Gradius series, it was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1985...
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  • the history of video games, the second-generation era refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available...
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    Japan, dedicated video-game arcades appeared and arcade-game cabinets appeared in many smaller storefronts. By 1981, the arcade video-game industry was worth...
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    A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions...
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  • Broderbund in 1981. Red Alert is a game in which the player defends against attacking aliens. Luther Shaw reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and...
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  • scrolling shooter video game written by Terry Gilman and Wayne Westmoreland for the TRS-80 and published by Adventure International in 1981. It was ported...
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  • New House II dormitory. It was also influenced by the arcade video game Defender (1981), which contributed the idea of the smart bomb (potions), and...
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  • Missile Command is a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and later licensed to Sega for Japanese and European releases...
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  • This is a list of video games that multiple video game journalists or magazines have considered to be among the best of all time. The games listed here...
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  • Space Invaders is a 1978 shoot 'em up arcade video game, developed and released by Taito in Japan and licensed to Midway Manufacturing for overseas distribution...
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    FIFA is a discontinued football video game franchise that was developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and published by EA Sports. As of 2011, the FIFA...
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