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PLAY RETRO 56: Defender

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The Defender I Had the Most Fun This Week Outside of the Original Arcade Release

"This a pain in the butt who control. I'm looking at it with, with disdain," says Mike Downey. "I've never played any game that made use of it that I thought was worthwhile" The 5,200 controllers are an abomination and they should be embarrassed, he adds. Why did they make a Defender game for the NES that had dad intro music? It may have happened.

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