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
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 :)
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!
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！
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 :)
I had to watch this in two parts because the smile on my face was hurting :)
21 minutes, 12 seconds... I see what you did there!⭐
the sound design in this and robotron was so ahead of the world.
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!
Same..I love that game so much, used to play it usually extremely stoned, best game ever, vast improvements over Defender
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！
Ah, such a savage frontier. Nobody at the arcade cared if you had epilepsy in 1981, so hopefully you didn't.
BEST SFX (SOUND EFFECTS)
I played this game for the first time recently. Never heard of it before. Very sophisticated game for 1981!
STARGATE is a VERY DIFFICULT video game
God Bless whoever posted this. A real joy
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.
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.
Defender style game with Robotron 2084 sound effects. 👍
Good grief, the memories
Liked saving the people catching them and landing them for safe getaway.
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!
Lots of quarters on this game.
You never tried the thread and quarter/ token trick?
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.
GOOD LORD
I remember this one
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.
Do understand that the player cannot out-run them; the player has to out-gun them. 👾
I was NEVER any good at Stargate or the OG Defender. Loved to play it, just couldn't PLAY it.
何が何でも終わらせにくる敵の殺意ヤバすぎw
Absolute classic
I used to feel so cool playing this. How do you use all those buttons. The reverse with your thumb, inviso, hyperspace. Awesome.
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
15:22 Planet exploded. This shouldn't be too bad. Oh.
Also named Mayday i remember. checked Mayday from 1980 Hoei, hmm.
Hello everyone,i have a big quest but Stargate and Defender 2 is the same video game or not ⚡☮️💫😎🍺
I never got the opportunity to play stargate, could you do 10 man pick up like in Defender?
It looks easy but it is very hard the controls
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
That's right STARGATE DEFENDER!! NOT THIS DEFENDER II NONSENSE
What's the exact name of this game?
🎶😌…..🫠🎶 💛
😵💫I don’t know why
I was never very good at Defender or Stargate.
これディフェンダーじゃないの？
You are forgetting to warp.
In the early stages, what is wrong with you? Do you not know lol
Shame the person playing is clueless. An amazing game played by a novice in this video.