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Defender

1981 video game
VideoGame video_game Q1182593

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
video game
Genre
shoot 'em up[22]
Publication date
February 1981, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1981, 1981, 1982, 1982, July 2000, 1983, 1983, 1982, 1983, 1994, 1983, 1983, 1983, November 15, 2006, 1994
Country of origin
United States
Designed by
Eugene Jarvis[25]
Developer
WMS Industries[23]
Input device
joystick
P14470
Games/Defender
Platform
Game Boy Advance, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Commodore 64, Nintendo GameCube, Entex Adventure Vision, Apple II, arcade video game, Atari 8-bit family, web browser, ColecoVision, handheld electronic game, Intellivision, Mac, PC booter, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Commodore VIC-20, Xbox 360, Classic Mac OS
Programmed in
assembly language[24]
Publisher
Sears, Entex Industries, Atarisoft, WMS Industries, Sears, Atari, Inc., Zellers, Atari, Inc., Atarisoft, Shockwave, Atarisoft, Atarisoft, Entex Industries, Atarisoft, Digital Eclipse, Atarisoft, Atarisoft, Atarisoft, Tradewest, Digital Eclipse[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Set in environment
fictional planet
Title
Defender
🏷️ Also known as
en Defender ja ディフェンダー (ゲーム) ko 디펜더 zh 保卫者
🔖 Identifiers · 45
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Williams Defender Arcade Video Game.jpg ↗
Abandonware-France game ID
4176
AtariAge ID
128 (128–618, n=3)
Atarimania ID
1561
Atarimuseum ID
rx8506, dx5504, 70252, 70002, rx8508, rx8507, dx5536, 75186, pv_df, cx2809, cx5218, cx2609, cxl4025
C64-Wiki ID
Defender
C64games.de ID
44
Colecovision Addict ID
55
Colecovision Zone ID
atarisoft/defender
DOSBox Compatibility ID
1570
Described at URL
www.arcadestory.it
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
defender
Show all 45 identifiers +33
Fandom article ID
gamicus:Defender, atari:Defender, intellivision:Defender, arcade:Defender, video-games:Defender
Freebase ID
/m/02k4l6
Game Classification game ID
822
GameFAQs game ID
932211
Gamebase64 ID
2079
GamerProfiles game ID
GLKM
Gaming-History ID
614
Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
3030-5536
Hall of Light ID
3890
HowLongToBeat ID
2404
IMDb ID
tt0315474, tt0302462
Internet Archive ID
arcade_defender
Internet Game Database game ID
defender
Killer List of Videogames ID
7547
Kultboy video game ID
2742
Lemon 64 ID
659
Lemon Amiga ID
2501
MAME ROM name
defender
Metacritic game ID
defender
Microtransaction.zone ID
5536
MobyGames game ID
140
MobyGames game ID (former scheme)
defender
My Abandonware game ID
2jo
OpenRetro Game Database ID
25b6993f-1b32-5fdc-afca-69592442cbb3
PCGamingWiki ID
Defender
Ready64 ID
2209
Redump.org ID
8917
StrategyWiki ID
Defender
TI-99/4A Videogame House ID
defender.html
TheLegacy game ID
1950
VG247 game ID
defender
Vglist video game ID
3147
WHDLoad database ID
Defender

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🔗 Connections
Platform 17
web browser, Nintendo GameCube, Commodore 64, Game Boy Advance, Atari 2600, arcade video game, Atari 5200, ColecoVision +9 more
Publisher 8
Sears, Atari, Inc., WMS Industries, Digital Eclipse, Zellers, Atarisoft, Entex Industries, Tradewest
Created notable works 2
WMS Industries, Eugene Jarvis
Country of origin 1
United States
Designed by 1
Eugene Jarvis
Developer 1
WMS Industries
Genre 1
shoot 'em up
Input device 1
joystick
Instance of 1
video game
Programmed in 1
assembly language
Set in environment 1
fictional planet
← Product or material produced 1
Williams Electronics Games
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Summary

Defender is a video game[1].

Body

Publication

Publication dates include February 1981[26], 1981[27], 1982[28], 1983[29], July 2000[30], and 1994[31].

Related Entities

Apple II assembly language Atari, Inc. Classic Mac OS Digital Eclipse Eugene Jarvis joystick PC booter Sears Texas Instruments TI-99/4A United States Williams Electronics Games WMS Industries

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Mule hollandaise · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Abandonware-France game ID → 4176
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Abandonware-France game ID: 4176, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275230|batch #275230]]"
  2. 14w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Games/Defender
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43247|batch #43247]]: moving [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier from the [[P:P5247|incorrect property]] to the [[P:P14470|correct one"
  3. 15w ago · J 1982 · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → shoot 'em up
    Developer → —
    Input device → joystick
    Country of origin → United States
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Giant Bomb ID (former scheme): 3030-5536"
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