Defender (1981)

All time rank: 255 of 1,000
1980s rank: 17 of 109
1981 rank: 3 of 10
List appearances: 18 lists
Developers: Shockwave, Williams Electronics
Platforms: ArcadeAtari 2600
Genre: Shooter
Wikipedia: Wikipedia
IGDB: IGDB
HowLongToBeat: HowLongToBeat
Main: ~48m
100%: ~4h
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Defender

Source Lists

All time 16
2018 Game Informer
The Top 300 Games of All Time #228
2018 Hyper
The 200 Games You Must Play #1
2017 Polygon
The 500 best games of all time #162
2013 NA
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die #1
2012 Time
All-TIME 100 Video Games #1
2005 Yahoo! UK
The 100 Greatest Computer Games of All Time #89
2003 Entertainment Weekly
We rank the 100 greatest early video games #78
2003 GameSpot
The Greatest Games of All Time #1
2000 Edge
The 100 best games of all time #64
1999 Hyper
The Top 50 Games of All Time #45
1999 Next Generation
The Fifty Best Games of All Time #23
1996 GamesMaster
Top 100 Games of All Time #5
1996 Next Generation
Top 100 Games of All Time #13
1995 Flux
The Top 100 Video Games #34
1995 Hyper
Top 100 Video Games of All Time #1
1994 GamesMaster
The All Time Top 100 Ever #42
Decade 2
2024 Edge
The 50 best games of the '80s #6
2009 GameSpy
GameSpy's 50 Favorite Console Games of the '80s #40

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