Defender

Hello everybody and welcome to the Canine Rinse podcast, Volume 15, issue 703. Today we're going to talk about Defender and Stargate. Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue we've got Chris Worthington. Hello! Micki Ilkroda. Hi. And I'm very excited to say we have a special guest, extra special guest, the one and only Julian Jazz Rignall. Welcome to Canine Rinse. Hola Bon dia. I'm calling from Portugal so I'm speaking Portuguese for a minute. Are you? Yeah. I had no idea. I didn't know which land you'd be hailing…

... I think Crimson Desert has-- - I'm a big Biomutant defender. I thought it was really fun. - I felt about meeting too. ...

... And we would play a lot and compete against one another at GDI. And then later at Gottlieb, there was a great game room and Gottlieb full of recent hit coin ops. Anyway, Defender was one of my favorites, but really it was Robotron was the control inspiration, you know, move with the left stick, shoot with the right. ...

systems we play in the games we play as well celebrating these benchmarks every couple of months this one though was massive on the uh the amiga when it originally came out and um you remember everywhere rj michael on the podcast didn't we a while ago yeah we were so jim sachs the artist behind it yeah yeah now we're talking about um defender of the crown which i think was definitely in the the earliest days of the amiga obviously this was a cinema where title um we talk about games that come along that kind of…

... That went to, uh, overtime and, uh, there was just a fantastic drag move that, uh, the eventual gold medal score did on the last defender. She, she drug it, uh, which like a deke, which is where you move the puck with your stick, you know, but she did like a, she was going around the left of the defender and she got the defender to turn around the opposite way. ...

... I think at Arcade Club as well, they did have, I don't know if they still do have, a defender meet, the arcade cabinet defender, where I guess-- - Yeah, that'd be the thing, yeah. ...

Then this is before the snap a is to call an audible b is to cycle through players And c will cycle through players in the reverse order The tackling defense after the snap a d-pad moves you around a the defender dives b change The b button changes the character closest to the ball and c the defender will jump. So I mean this is pretty Standard football stuff for the most part, right? very much so Very standard, but you also Are playing with uh alien skeletons robots trolls and superhumans Yeah Yeah, yeah…

... That movie is insane. - I am a defender of Black Knight. I haven't seen it since I was a child. ...

... The sequel for this was on the Genesis. It is Mystic Defender. I don't know if you're familiar with that game. ...

they were in a position to take that kind of risk to say like, yeah, what's the future of games gonna be? And let's make this constantly updating thing. And then for Ubisoft to look at it and say, Excuse me, you're doing fucking what and then just, you know, pull the plug on it once it became clear what the future of this thing was, but games as a service. No, guys, stupid. Ubisoft is a longtime defender of games as a service. What are you talking about? They famously keep their servers online forever. They're…

... I'm glad you said all those things there Kat I mean I thought I would be maybe the sole defender of a game that you know is like lost to time you know like this style of game like we definitely have a fatigue of it with the modern games but in 2009 this was like highly engaging and exciting entertaining like the cinematic nature of it all like you said like that was something I was like all in on I do have a bit of a bias towards it as well too I have memories of being able to it was like the job I had at the…

... Well, we hope their antivirus software would be a bit more kind towards, you know, with just false positives and that. But again, Windows Defender flags it up again. - Oh, it's so happy, aren't they, Windows Defender? ...