I LOVED This game so much back then!! The first time the planet exploded on me I LOST MY MIND with the cool effects. I mean for the early 80s FX, it was beyond awesome
If the store owner or arcade owner were skinflints they didn't want the expert players playing for 40 minutes for a quarter. So they dialed up the skill level. But the negative was that all the newbies weren't going to play a game where you were lucky to last for two minutes.
This is my favorite arcade game! I played it many years ago at Tumbleweeds Pizza Parlor when it was here in Eatonton Georgia! I now have it on a PlayStation 2 video game disc which gives me something to play during my free time! Thanks for letting me see this arcade game close up!
Back in 1981, an arcade buddy of mine could play for hours on a single quarter. He was one of those arcade players that had a savant level of eye-hand coordination. It didn't take him very long to master most the arcade games to the point he could beat any game. Some games would even over-heat if played long enough, and they would reset themselves in the middle of a game that been going for many hours. And sometimes, like in Donkey Kong and Pac Man, the game would reach a level where a bug would end the game.
i used to be able to play like that as well. the last time i played i walked away with unknown lives and let a kid take over to happened to die every min and he played for almost two hours. I loved the game though. my score was never beaten on the machine for as long as i knew.
I own a tempest and a stargate. I could play same game on each until I got bored. Not just a few hours... The video of someone playing stargate is pathetic. They should learn to play the game properly
@@shehbazkhan976 I also own an original Atari Tempest arcade cabinet. Bought it in mid 80s. At the time I figured if I ever wanted to beat it, would be cheaper to buy it than keep feeding it quarters :)
This was my all time favorite game to play in the arcade. I could get over 100 million. Took down a lot of high scores in NJ and NY. Couldn’t be this dude name Zack from Bloomfield NJ. He had to be the best.
That is God tier scoring for this game! I don't know if you were around when this was new, but I sure was, and never got close to that score, I did dump a TON of quarters in it though!
Damn, you’re way better at this game than I ever got, and I had it at home! 😅 My dad worked in an arcade when he was younger and got so good at Defender that he could just play for hours and hours without using any quarters, but he said he never got that good at Stargate. Years later, a friend gave us the machine in exchange for free haircuts for life from my mom, and I had a great time playing it until it stopped working sometime in the 2010s. When my parents split up in 2021, I wanted to take it myself and see if we could repair it, but they gave it away before I could figure out how I was gonna store it. I was pretty devastated about that, not gonna lie… kinda felt like it was my birthright, you know? 😅 No siblings to fight me for it, my dad has some hand problems now that kinda prevent him from playing it… I guess I took it for granted. Maybe someday I’ll be able to buy that machine to have it in my house again.
The background stars don't appear below the maximum terrain height. I guess it took too much CPU time to check every frame if a star was obscured by the terrain. It wouldn't have been an issue if they didn't pan with a parallax effect, but that effect is cool enough to warrant the black area under the stars.
@@richardlacey4923 That doesn't work....or so I heard. The coin operators weren't going to let their machines be hacked so easily. Remember....they had cigarette machines back then. There wouldn't have been a single one around if you could get hundreds of dollars worth of cigarettes out of them for free.
I wasn’t born in the time while the game was published, but I’m loving this game very much right now for the reason that it is so exciting, and had a lot of fun on it! It never appeared in Taiwan while I was a child, and I am 44 now, and very happy to see This game and have fun with it!❤ 如果有任何的台灣人，在台灣有玩過這個遊戲（大型電玩），可以在下方留言喔！
Interesting how the background stars pan at approx. half the speed of the terrain. Nice parallax effect but in the Yllabian dogfights where there's no terrain, it can feel like the player's ship is moving slower than normal.
I'm glad someone noticed this visual effect! :) Always felt the twinkling stars in the background is the most amazing visual in this game and Defender; those colorful stars in the background creates a three dimensional depth of field a game like Starcraft should have adopted.
Man I miss the 80's If younger people think this is hard and they've only played emulated... The original hardware you had to manually thrust and reverse with separate buttons! The stick only did up and down. THAT was hard 🤣 Especially after throwing in Fire, Smart Bomb, Invisible and Hyperspace buttons 😉
I once played the PC port of this game waaay back in the 1980s. As this is one of those games that tie themselves to the speed of your CPU, the old 286 I had proved already too advanced and fast and rendered the game nearly impossible to play.
I would dump a roll of quarters every chance I got and eventually could play all day on 1 quarter. the score flips to zero when it goes above 9999999. So to keep an unbeatable high score I would try to kill off my extra lives before it went to zero again. Good memories of an awesome game.
@@williammcclendon6923.. I asked the chat gpt just to confirm and this is what I found. Yes, in the 1984 Stargate arcade game (the sequel to Defender), the score would indeed "roll over" or reset to zero after reaching a certain high number, as was common with many arcade games of the time due to technical limitations. The score would roll over when it exceeded 999,999 points, effectively starting back at zero. This phenomenon was due to the way the game's software handled integer values, which often had a finite limit in older systems. This "rollover" added an interesting challenge for players who aimed for high scores, as they had to mentally track how many times they had looped past the maximum score.
@@williammcclendon6923 So according to A.I. Yes, in the 1984 Stargate arcade game (the sequel to Defender), the score would indeed "roll over" or reset to zero after reaching a certain high number, as was common with many arcade games of the time due to technical limitations. The score would roll over when it exceeded 999,999 points, effectively starting back at zero. This phenomenon was due to the way the game's software handled integer values, which often had a finite limit in older systems. This "rollover" added an interesting challenge for players who aimed for high scores, as they had to mentally track how many times they had looped past the maximum score.
I know...he kept dropping the humanoids the second he rescued them. I've watched a lot of guys who's tactic was to keep them on board to prevent mutation.
I have Stargate on a 500 in 1 handheld console.. but it doesnt look this nice.. and some enemies are missing. So what version do i have? It has a selection of game A and game B
Picture an arcade in 1981. A room filled with machines just like this. The sound and the atmosphere was like nothing else.
Indeed, some of the best times of my youth in the 80’s.
Music to this 80s arcade rat's ears! *sigh*
90s was pretty much the same growing up. One of the things i miss about being a kid and a teen
Speaking of atmosphere, you were allowed to smoke in arcades back then. So the air was translucent.
I used to get this game score up to a million. Used to lag badly when shoot the pods
Just like with Robotron, these aliens don't fuck around. You gotta want to save the world to play this game. They just keep coming..forever.
This game and defender ate a lot of quarters back the summer of 1981. Who give anything to go and spend one night doing that again.
I LOVED This game so much back then!! The first time the planet exploded on me I LOST MY MIND with the cool effects. I mean for the early 80s FX, it was beyond awesome
Defender, Stargate, Tempest, Robotron, Pac Man and Sinistar were my one quarter games.
Robotron rocked. There's actually a VR game named SWARM that reminds me a lot of Robotron.
Back in the 80s I loved this game. To survive it you had to have GOD level hand-eye coordination.
The single most nerve wracking game ever made. I loved it but never mastered it.
Easy to learn, hard to master.
If the store owner or arcade owner were skinflints they didn't want the expert players playing for 40 minutes for a quarter. So they dialed up the skill level. But the negative was that all the newbies weren't going to play a game where you were lucky to last for two minutes.
This is my favorite arcade game! I played it many years ago at Tumbleweeds Pizza Parlor when it was here in Eatonton Georgia! I now have it on a PlayStation 2 video game disc which gives me something to play during my free time! Thanks for letting me see this arcade game close up!
Back in 1981, an arcade buddy of mine could play for hours on a single quarter. He was one of those arcade players that had a savant level of eye-hand coordination. It didn't take him very long to master most the arcade games to the point he could beat any game. Some games would even over-heat if played long enough, and they would reset themselves in the middle of a game that been going for many hours. And sometimes, like in Donkey Kong and Pac Man, the game would reach a level where a bug would end the game.
i used to be able to play like that as well. the last time i played i walked away with unknown lives and let a kid take over to happened to die every min and he played for almost two hours. I loved the game though. my score was never beaten on the machine for as long as i knew.
Thread through on a quarter/ token worked too
I remember nearly crashing it, just rapid fire smartbombing until the screen overloaded.
I own a tempest and a stargate. I could play same game on each until I got bored. Not just a few hours... The video of someone playing stargate is pathetic. They should learn to play the game properly
@@shehbazkhan976 I also own an original Atari Tempest arcade cabinet. Bought it in mid 80s. At the time I figured if I ever wanted to beat it, would be cheaper to buy it than keep feeding it quarters :)
Definitely the best sound effects in video games history!!
I had to watch this in two parts because the smile on my face was hurting :)
God Bless whoever posted this. A real joy
21 minutes, 12 seconds... I see what you did there!⭐
This was my all time favorite game to play in the arcade. I could get over 100 million. Took down a lot of high scores in NJ and NY. Couldn’t be this dude name Zack from Bloomfield NJ. He had to be the best.
I played this game for the first time recently. Never heard of it before. Very sophisticated game for 1981!
Ah, such a savage frontier. Nobody at the arcade cared if you had epilepsy in 1981, so hopefully you didn't.
Same..I love that game so much, used to play it usually extremely stoned, best game ever, vast improvements over Defender
Good grief, the memories
the sound design in this and robotron was so ahead of the world.
The sound chip only has so many voices but amazingly everything gets heard at least for a split nanosecond lol
Great job there. Especially after losing the planet.
That is God tier scoring for this game! I don't know if you were around when this was new, but I sure was, and never got close to that score, I did dump a TON of quarters in it though!
GOOD LORD
I remember this one
Damn, you’re way better at this game than I ever got, and I had it at home! 😅
My dad worked in an arcade when he was younger and got so good at Defender that he could just play for hours and hours without using any quarters, but he said he never got that good at Stargate. Years later, a friend gave us the machine in exchange for free haircuts for life from my mom, and I had a great time playing it until it stopped working sometime in the 2010s.
When my parents split up in 2021, I wanted to take it myself and see if we could repair it, but they gave it away before I could figure out how I was gonna store it. I was pretty devastated about that, not gonna lie… kinda felt like it was my birthright, you know? 😅 No siblings to fight me for it, my dad has some hand problems now that kinda prevent him from playing it… I guess I took it for granted. Maybe someday I’ll be able to buy that machine to have it in my house again.
The background stars don't appear below the maximum terrain height. I guess it took too much CPU time to check every frame if a star was obscured by the terrain. It wouldn't have been an issue if they didn't pan with a parallax effect, but that effect is cool enough to warrant the black area under the stars.
Lots of quarters on this game.
You never tried the thread and quarter/ token trick?
@@richardlacey4923 That doesn't work....or so I heard. The coin operators weren't going to let their machines be hacked so easily. Remember....they had cigarette machines back then. There wouldn't have been a single one around if you could get hundreds of dollars worth of cigarettes out of them for free.
I wasn’t born in the time while the game was published, but I’m loving this game very much right now for the reason that it is so exciting, and had a lot of fun on it!
It never appeared in Taiwan while I was a child, and I am 44 now, and very happy to see This game and have fun with it!❤
如果有任何的台灣人，在台灣有玩過這個遊戲（大型電玩），可以在下方留言喔！
I remember a game called "Defender" very similar to this one
I got a boot legged version from China about 15 years ago at a fleamarket ..idk if the retro consoles today will have it or not ..still cool!
Absolute classic
Interesting how the background stars pan at approx. half the speed of the terrain. Nice parallax effect but in the Yllabian dogfights where there's no terrain, it can feel like the player's ship is moving slower than normal.
I'm glad someone noticed this visual effect! :) Always felt the twinkling stars in the background is the most amazing visual in this game and Defender; those colorful stars in the background creates a three dimensional depth of field a game like Starcraft should have adopted.
BEST SFX (SOUND EFFECTS)
STARGATE is a VERY DIFFICULT video game
Depends on how high the arcade owner set the skill level.
Man I miss the 80's
If younger people think this is hard and they've only played emulated...
The original hardware you had to manually thrust and reverse with separate buttons! The stick only did up and down. THAT was hard 🤣
Especially after throwing in Fire, Smart Bomb, Invisible and Hyperspace buttons 😉
I loved playing this game. The player didn't use the Stargate and skipped ahead.
I used it couple of times but enemy abductions was way too fast.
Someone noticed thank you
I used to feel so cool playing this. How do you use all those buttons. The reverse with your thumb, inviso, hyperspace. Awesome.
I once played the PC port of this game waaay back in the 1980s. As this is one of those games that tie themselves to the speed of your CPU, the old 286 I had proved already too advanced and fast and rendered the game nearly impossible to play.
I would dump a roll of quarters every chance I got and eventually could play all day on 1 quarter. the score flips to zero when it goes above 9999999. So to keep an unbeatable high score I would try to kill off my extra lives before it went to zero again.
Good memories of an awesome game.
Didn’t do that it kept going I know this to be factual
PAC man did that but not Star Gate
@@williammcclendon6923.. I asked the chat gpt just to confirm and this is what I found.
Yes, in the 1984 Stargate arcade game (the sequel to Defender), the score would indeed "roll over" or reset to zero after reaching a certain high number, as was common with many arcade games of the time due to technical limitations. The score would roll over when it exceeded 999,999 points, effectively starting back at zero. This phenomenon was due to the way the game's software handled integer values, which often had a finite limit in older systems.
This "rollover" added an interesting challenge for players who aimed for high scores, as they had to mentally track how many times they had looped past the maximum score.
@@williammcclendon6923
So according to A.I.
Yes, in the 1984 Stargate arcade game (the sequel to Defender), the score would indeed "roll over" or reset to zero after reaching a certain high number, as was common with many arcade games of the time due to technical limitations. The score would roll over when it exceeded 999,999 points, effectively starting back at zero. This phenomenon was due to the way the game's software handled integer values, which often had a finite limit in older systems.
This "rollover" added an interesting challenge for players who aimed for high scores, as they had to mentally track how many times they had looped past the maximum score.
Hello everyone,i have a big quest but Stargate and Defender 2 is the same video game or not ⚡☮️💫😎🍺
Yes is it, they wanted to use the name Defender II is some markets to retain their rights. Stargate is the sequel to Defender.
I never got the opportunity to play stargate, could you do 10 man pick up like in Defender?
I know...he kept dropping the humanoids the second he rescued them. I've watched a lot of guys who's tactic was to keep them on board to prevent mutation.
Liked saving the people catching them and landing them for safe getaway.
I used to like this one better than Defender. Edit: the space guppies always tripped me out.
何が何でも終わらせにくる敵の殺意ヤバすぎw
I have Stargate on a 500 in 1 handheld console.. but it doesnt look this nice.. and some enemies are missing. So what version do i have? It has a selection of game A and game B
15:22 Planet exploded. This shouldn't be too bad. Oh.
Oooh he's NICE!!
Why have i heard this whole post before? Am I Crazy?
Do understand that the player cannot out-run them; the player has to out-gun them. 👾
Also named Mayday i remember. checked Mayday from 1980 Hoei, hmm.
Defender style game with Robotron 2084 sound effects. 👍
I was NEVER any good at Stargate or the OG Defender. Loved to play it, just couldn't PLAY it.
What's the exact name of this game?
これディフェンダーじゃないの？
I have one
That's right STARGATE DEFENDER!! NOT THIS DEFENDER II NONSENSE
🎶😌…..🫠🎶 💛
😵💫I don’t know why
You are forgetting to warp.
In the early stages, what is wrong with you? Do you not know lol
I was never very good at Defender or Stargate.
Shame the person playing is clueless. An amazing game played by a novice in this video.