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Stargate
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Manufacturer:
Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) 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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Stargate 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.Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsAn easter egg is hidden in the game displaying the games credits. To perform this trick, three sequences of joystick movements andor button presses must be executed within a quarter of a second of each other without the player dying.
ConversionThe cabinet will accept a IDefenderI 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 online requires Shockwave at httpwww.shockwave.comswcontentdefender2 PDesigned by Vid Kidz Eugene Jarvis and Larry Demar who also designed IDefenderI, IRobotron 2084I and IBlasterI for Williams Electronics. IStargateI 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 IDefender StargateI and IDefender III.VAPS Arcade CensusThere are 6,975 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 4,013 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 65,105 machines (3,796 unique titles).Very Common - There are 205 known instances of this machine owned by Stargate collectors who are members. Of these, 173 of them are original dedicated machines, 10 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 22 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 14 VAPS members with Stargate machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts. Wanted - There are 10 VAPS members currently looking for Stargate. This game ranks a 84 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 24 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThere are no DIP switches for difficulty settings its 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.PFor legal reasons, the name was later changed to IDefender III for home versions such as the NES cartridge and the emulation on IArcades Greatest HitsI.PThe names of some of the enemies in the game are Williams competitors names spelled backwards the Yllabian Yllab is Bally and the Irata Atari.Legacy
Manuals
Foto-Finder™ (books)
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