Defender 1

Last updated on June 2nd, 2023 at 02:05 am

Defender 1

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Defender 1 is one of the best $1.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by Aroldo Carvalho, Defender 1 is a Casual game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 19th September 2015 with the latest update 8th November 2020

Whether you are a fan of Casual, games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.

Rating

43 people have rated 5.1

You can download the game Defender 1 from APP STORE.

Description

DEFENDER 1 is a remake of a classic arcade game from the 80’s for mobile devices.
Your mission is to defend the astronauts from being abducted by the aliens and obliterate the enemy spaceships, but careful not to kill the astronauts, failing to save them will make the planet explode and the aliens will turn into mutants!

Updated on 8th November 2020

Updated for iOS12

  • New Virtual Joystick
  • Destroying enemies bullets scores points.
  • New Info panel with social media, mail and website
  • New Settings panel

Defender 1 Reviews

Omg! Whoever says this game isnt like the old one and the controls are too hard, they werent good at it in the first place! We LOVE this game! We mean we FREAKING LOVE it! It took us about an hour to start to figure it out. Its probably as close as we will ever get to having the game in our basement. The ONLY thing is its a little hard to go up and down sometimes but what do you expect on a phone screen???? We miss the hyperspace unless you can tell us how to do it. Im up to 100,000 so far and its so fun remembering the old days and the sounds are incredible!!!! Thank you for bringing this back from the past and to the future!!!!!!!!! 5 stars!!!!!


This is a faithful reproduction of the defender we played as a kid. Lots of retro fun to be had! We know some people didn’t like the old joystick. We never used that one so we can’t say, but the newer 8 direction virtual joystick works great.


We’ve loved this game since we were a kid. It would be awesome if you could add support for controllers like Backbone.


Just like we remember except we thought it was possible to rescue survivors on the floor. Not possible here.


The game is fun but the control is lag a little and the lasers dont react properly when you change direction they do not streak across the screen but stop when you move at first.


Great on iPhone but audio does not work on iPad.


The machine gun doesnt sound like original.


This is literally the worst game we’ve ever downloaded. The controls are lackluster and the Audio doesnt even work. Not muted. Just no sound. You are playing in silence.


Slow paced, terrible response, and a huge waste of time and money.


This is awesome, the game we grew up with. Controls a bit clunky like someone said but THATS DEFENDER. Really well done and appreciated.


This game was literally our teenage years the game graphics are not to bad but the actual controls the up and down buttons are to far apart that and the lack of responsiveness in the middle part of the direction buttons that makes it difficult to play with the vigor this game is famous for. Hopefully the developer may fix the spacing between the direction buttons until then two stars with hope for updates. Its a great game on an arcade mechanic and is difficult to replicate especially without actual buttons.


Controls are way to Slow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Needs to be more like the original. They are too unresponsive and too far apart.


The authenticity of the game is pretty good, but even on our 8+, the joystick control is terrible. Please update it to be more user friendly! If that were to happen, it would be a 5.


We were so excited to find Defender. This was our favorite game growing up but THIS Defender is a rip off. Not worth the one star we just gave it.


Horrible – ship doesnt continue moving after thrusters stop. Controls are badly spaced.


We read the reviews and still bought it. WHAT WAS we THINKING we played for less then 5 minutes and deleted the game. It was the biggest waste of $$$$ ever !


If we could give this game a less-than-a-star rating we would. We were so excited to see this game in the App Store, but after purchasing it and playing, or should we say trying to play, we realized we just gave away $1.99. This game shouldnt even be for sale. Its hardly responsive and the controller buttons are barely useable. The only good thing is the graphics. They are almost identical. However, in this day and age, this game could be designed with much better non-pixelated graphics like we had back in the 80s. We doubt Ill ever get the money we spent on this game back. So Ill chalk it up as a lesson learned. Buy no games that we cant play first then buy and/or games designed by this company unless they make changes to this game and upgrade everything.


This game is a waste of money.


It only lets you shoot in the first scene ant its 1.99 It is scam do not buy.


We guess it was worth $1.99 just for the hope that it would be as enjoyable as the original. The bottom line is that for a paid app, the controls are unacceptably poor.


This game is a total rip off the controls is awful awful awful ! Its also super slow Theres way better defender apps but not on apple Do not buy you will be disappointed we had to give one star or we could not send our warning message but it gets zero star from me.


Loved the original. This game is unplayable.


We really couldnt believe our luck when we found this game for sale after looking for years…… Then we made the mistake of buying it!! The controls are absolutely terrible and the game play is both slow and anything but enjoyable. If you want to waste 1.99 on a game youll never play for more than two minutes then go ahead and buy this one. Such a shame that a simple game like this has been ruined by such bad controls :-(


Smooth and complete, such an awesome time killer. Hop right into the app!


While you can’t have a joystick, this is as close as it gets and still a blast to play. Tap the screen anywhere to fire, that took us an inquiry to figure out. A great flashback play anytime.


The behavior (when in auto-thrust mode) and appearance are quite authentic but the translation of the original controls to the touch screen is not working well. If memory serves, the original game had a very direct up-down control and the direction reversal button very close by, within thumb reach we think. As it is on screen, the up-down control is way too slow, it should be a slider or something, and the reverse direction is as far as can be from it, and on the same side, so it isn’t even possible to use the other hand for it. Can’t play that game like that. We’ll be eagerly waiting for an update that has better control.


We love the game as it brings us back but why does it only go up to stage 5!!?? Im paying for a game that we thought went further than stage 5. Not fair! Im eagerly waiting an update ASAP!

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