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Stargate |
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Manufacturer:
Williams Year: 1981 Class: Wide Release Genre: Space Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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DescriptionThe player's ship flies over a horizontally scrolling planet surface, protecting friendly humanoids from alien abduction. Destroying all enemies advances you to the next wave. Loss of all humanoids destroys the planet until it is reinstated every fifth wave.Know anything more about this game? Cheats, Tricks and BugsAn easter egg is hidden in the game displaying the game's credits. To perform this trick, three sequences of joystick movements and/or button presses must be executed within a quarter of a second of each other without the player dying:
ConversionThe cabinet will accept a Defender board set.Game PlayThe stargate itself can be flown into by the player. If a humanoid is being abducted, the player is taken to the area of the abduction. If the player has 4 or more humanoids attached to their ship, the player is Warped forward three waves. Otherwise, the stargate transports the player to the other side of the planet. Waves 5, 15, 25 etc. are Yllabian Dogfight waves, where the player is in space (no planet or humanoids) against an Armada of Yllabian Space Guppies. Waves 10, 20 30 etc. are Firebomber Showdown waves. A special 2000 point bonus can be gained by simultaneously catching and dropping off a falling humanoid as the last event in a wave once all the enemies have been destroyed.MiscellaneousPlay the game on-line (requires Shockwave) at http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/defender2Designed by Vid Kidz (Eugene Jarvis and Larry Demar) who also designed Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Blaster for Williams Electronics. Stargate was produced in upright, cocktail and mini cabinet versions. In Europe the game was manufactured under license by Williams Streets, commonly in a mini cabinet with different (poorer) artwork. The game is also known as Defender Stargate and Defender II. Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 135 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 112 of them are original dedicated machines, 7 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 16 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 73 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. Wanted - There are 8 VAPS members currently looking for this game. Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range. TechnicalThere are no DIP switches for difficulty settings; it's all handled in software and on the screen. The sound board has its own CPU. Both the Sound CPU and the Game CPU are Motorola 6809.TriviaApproximately 26000 uprights were made plus about 1000 cocktail tables.For legal reasons, the name was later changed to Defender II for home versions such as the NES cartridge and the emulation on Arcade's Greatest Hits. The names of some of the enemies in the game are William's competitor's names spelled backwards: the Yllabian ("Yllab" is "Bally") and the Irata (Atari.) eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Stargate Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Williams. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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