1982 · Shooter
Space Defender
1982 video game
- Released
- 1982
- Platforms
- Apple II
- Genres
- Shooter
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Country
- United States
About
Space Defender is a fixed shooter video game for the Apple II written by Dan Schuyler and published by Bel-Air Software in 1982. It requires an Apple II with a minimum of 48K RAM.
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Players play as the Space Defender. Their mission is to protect the Star Base from attacking aliens, fireballs and start pods. If any of these objects collide with the Star Base, it will be destroyed.
Players start their mission with three ships; each time they sustain a hit they will lose 20% of their energy. An alarm will sound when a ship has only 20% energy remaining. At different point levels shields will automatically be recharged by drawing power out of the alien ships. Laser will also fire behind the ships in case an alien gets past.
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