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Defender and Stargate – Cane and Rinse No.703

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast · March 3, 2026

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Yeah, that's what I was going to talk about. Because actually, that sound chip, that actually comes from William's late 70s pinball table. Yeah. So if you played all the pinball types, like Zenon and all of those, and I had a Black Knight, and it was like weird, Black Knight pinball that's got like twin levels and stuff is a really, really cool game. But like, it does both Robotron and Defender sound effects at different times. So it was just weird sort of playing it, because like, if I had friends around and they were playing in the other room, it just totally sounded like two people were playing Robotron and Defender. But yeah, I forget the name of that sound chip. But when I would talk to Eugene Jarvis some years ago,

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... it probably would be for me, the sound of a Defender game playing out behind me. I think we also kind of almost discussed these very sound effects when we talked about Robotrun 2084, because they use a lot of the similar sound effects. Yeah, that's what I was going to talk about. Because actually, that sound chip, that actually comes from William's late 70s pinball table. Yeah. So if you played all the pinball types, like Zenon and all of those, and I had a Black Knight, and it was like weird, Black Knight pinball that's got like twin levels and stuff is a really, really cool game. But like, it does both Robotron and Defender sound effects at different times. So it was just weird sort of playing it, because like, if I had friends around and they were playing in the other room, it just totally sounded like two people were playing Robotron and Defender. But yeah, I forget the name of that sound chip. But when I would talk to Eugene Jarvis some years ago, to do about the sound? Because and like some one of the engineers just said, I just use, you know, the same old chip that we always use, just figure out different ways of making ...

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