WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 Defender. Defender is a game on which you have a split screen. At the top is a 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:07.000 scanner and at the bottom is a big screen. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 The scanner shows your whole playfield while the bottom shows 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:13.001 only one quarter of the playfield. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:17.001 To play, you watch your scanner and protect your humans. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.001 The object of the game is to protect all ten humans who are on the ground. 00:00:22.001 --> 00:00:27.001 The idea is to keep the green alien landing craft from taking your humans from 00:00:27.001 --> 00:00:29.001 the ground and changing them into mutants. 00:00:30.001 --> 00:00:33.000 When a human is taken to the top of the screen by a 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.001 lander, he is changed into a mutant. 00:00:36.001 --> 00:00:41.000 A mutant is very dangerous to you because he flies faster than 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:42.001 you do and shoots at you. 00:00:42.001 --> 00:00:49.000 It is important to know that saving humans in mid-air gives extra points and also 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.001 that humans who survive and are left at the end of each 00:00:52.001 --> 00:00:54.000 wave are worth bonus points. 00:00:54.001 --> 00:00:59.001 The control panel consists of different buttons and a joystick. You may move 00:00:59.001 --> 00:01:02.000 either up and down or left and right. 00:01:02.001 --> 00:01:07.000 The thrust button accelerates you. There is a fire button 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:09.000 with which to shoot the landers. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.000 The hyperspace button makes you vanish and 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:14.000 repositions you somewhere else on the screen. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:20.000 But the hyperspace button is risky. Only use it when you are surrounded and your 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.001 destruction is imminent. Then it will save you. 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.001 Otherwise, the hyperspace button will cause you to self-destruct. 00:01:27.001 --> 00:01:32.000 The button called Smart Bombs is very important and vital to your survival. 00:01:32.001 --> 00:01:36.000 The use of a Smart Bomb is to blow up anything that is 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:37.001 around you when you are about to be killed. 00:01:38.001 --> 00:01:42.000 Smart Bombs kill only what is on the big screen. They do not 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.001 blow up everything that is on the scanner. 00:01:44.001 --> 00:01:48.000 You will need to use Smart Bombs to blow up pods when they are close together. 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.000 Try to get three or four together at a time. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:57.001 In Defenders, it is important to be firing very rapidly. However, the trick to 00:01:57.001 --> 00:02:00.000 mastering this game is to know where to fly your ship. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.001 You should always fly at the horizon level unless you are about to be shot 00:02:05.001 --> 00:02:07.000 and need to avoid being killed. 00:02:07.001 --> 00:02:11.000 From this position, you fly up or down, saving humans from the landers. 00:02:11.001 --> 00:02:15.001 When a lander comes down from the top of the screen, he will always fly at a 00:02:15.001 --> 00:02:19.001 level just above the horizon of the mountains at the bottom of the screen. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.001 And it is from that level they will go down and pick up your humans. 00:02:24.001 --> 00:02:29.001 So, it is important for you to always fly at the horizon level, never above or 00:02:29.001 --> 00:02:33.000 below, so that you are able to save your humans from the landers. 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Keeping this information in mind, you are ready to begin playing. The stages 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:39.001 of the game are called waves. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:43.001 There are five waves. Each one is harder than the previous one 00:02:43.001 --> 00:02:45.000 and adds various things. 00:02:46.001 --> 00:02:50.001 Wave 1 is a very slow wave where you can shoot the landers 00:02:50.001 --> 00:02:52.000 quickly as they move slowly. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:57.001 They will slowly pick up your men and carry them to the top. Get lots of practice 00:02:57.001 --> 00:03:01.001 at this level, taking back your man and putting him back on the ground. 00:03:02.001 --> 00:03:06.000 Do 3 or 4 and then wipe them all out by shooting as fast as you can. 00:03:06.001 --> 00:03:10.001 When you get good at this, you will be able to kill the landers more slowly and 00:03:10.001 --> 00:03:14.000 rescue your men. You will get more points this way. 00:03:14.001 --> 00:03:19.000 However, if you do not kill the landers fast enough, baiters will come out. 00:03:19.001 --> 00:03:24.001 Baiters move evasively and shoot rapidly, so they are not only likely to kill you 00:03:24.001 --> 00:03:27.001 instantly, but are also most difficult for you to kill. 00:03:28.001 --> 00:03:32.000 So, kill the landers quickly at first in order to avoid the baiters coming out. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:37.000 And as you become more skilled, you will be able to time your shots, so as to 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.001 kill the landers slowly enough to rescue your man and get the most points. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.000 But not so slow as to give enough time for a baiter to come out. 00:03:46.001 --> 00:03:52.000 In Wave 2, the game adds a pod which is worth 1,000 points and a few bombers. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.001 Shooting landers as fast as possible keeps you going. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:01.001 When you shoot the pod, it will break up into swimmers who shoot at you. The 00:04:01.001 --> 00:04:05.001 swimmers are worth 150 points and there is a trick to getting them. 00:04:05.001 --> 00:04:11.001 When they come shooting out at you, right after they pass, try to get right 00:04:11.001 --> 00:04:16.000 behind them. This will prevent them from shooting at you, while you will be able 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.000 to clearly wipe them out from behind. 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:26.000 Remember, swimmers will come out only if you shoot the pod. Swimmers will not 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:29.000 come out of the pod if you destroy the pod using a smart bomb. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:36.001 Wave 3 is the same as Wave 2, only faster and with more landers and more pods. 00:04:37.001 --> 00:04:40.000 Here is where the pod trick comes in. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:46.001 Wait for the 3 or 4 pods to all get together and blow them up at one time using a 00:04:46.001 --> 00:04:50.000 smart bomb. This is worth about 5,000 points. 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:56.001 From Wave 4 on, the game is hard and you must kill landers as fast as possible. 00:04:57.001 --> 00:05:01.000 You must be flying faster and shooting more ferociously because 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:02.001 the game really speeds up. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:08.000 Also, here is added one more pod which is the limit. There is never more 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:09.001 than 4 pods per wave. 00:05:09.001 --> 00:05:15.000 The best way to kill mutants is to fly at the very top of the screen and shoot 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.001 forward at them. They will usually walk right into your shots. 00:05:20.001 --> 00:05:24.001 If you should lose all your humans, the planet will disappear and you will find 00:05:24.001 --> 00:05:26.001 all your men flying around in space. 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.000 I call this part space flight because there is no 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.000 ground or horizon at this level. 00:05:32.001 --> 00:05:36.000 Every lander becomes a mutant and therefore becomes more difficult 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:37.001 to clear them all off the screen. 00:05:38.001 --> 00:05:42.000 It is almost impossible to get back to the planet stage once you are in this 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 space stage, so it should be avoided if at all possible. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:50.000 If you don't lose all your humans and make it to Wave 5, you get a new set 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:51.001 of humans and play continues.