Talk:Defender (1981 video game)

message: I've moved the page to Defender (game) because various versions of Defender have been released for home systems, cell phones, etc. User:Luigi30 (Ταλκ) 22:51, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved 

message: Does anyone know what this means? Reference? Mirror Vax 1 July 2005 20:15 (UTC)
: It means Defender is the favorite game of the person who wrote that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.166.22.234 (talk • contribs) 22:07, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "highest grossing arcade game" 

message: How do I turn around in that game?! --Abdull 19:50, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It depends what keys are being used to control the 'turn around' function. In MAME, it's probably the Ctrl, Shift or Alt key, but I often reassign them for convenience. Spottedowl 23:14, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turning 

message: I removed the following from the article:
:==Development History==
It says who the source is at the beginning, but does that mean it was copied word for word from the material, or was it reworded, just using information from it?  If it was copied word-for-word, it is too long to be justified under fair use.  If it just uses information from it, just cite it as a source with footnotes.  In addition, the word "History" in the title should lowercase, not uppercase. — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:56, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio?

message: In the second paragraph of the opening, an editor cited Videotopia for some information.  What is it?  There's no article on it to give it any context.  Since it's being cited, it needs to have some explanatory information given about it so the user has some idea as to why it is some sort of authority. — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Videotopia

message: Okay, first of all, I did not copy it word for word. Second, I can't cite any footnotes because I got the information from the game itself. You would have to actually play it to see where the information comes from. I didn't get the information from any online source (read: webpage). What was I supposed to do? I'm sorry if my submission wasn't good enough, but what else could I do?
(sigh) I'm sorry if the above sounded upset, but I just assumed that if I posted where I got the infomation from, it would be universally understood that I was citing my sources. Again, I couldn't cite any webpage because I didn't get the information from any webpage, I got it from the game product itself.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.245.254.83 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Not Violate Copyrights. 

message: The Atari port also included an international date line where if you were close to it and the landers etc. were on the other side they would move away from you. I'm not sure if the arcade version itself included this feature or not. Jon 15:31, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it did not. Centrepull (talk) 00:11, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact there's two datelines, one for the swarmers where the player starts, and one for the mutants 180 degrees around from that.- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 22:29, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Date Line 

message: The section about the monitor in the development part seems to be confusing the board's video capabilities with the monitors capability. It used a standard resolution color arcade monitor, which was capable of the same range of colors as a television set.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.217.37.212 (talk) 02:13, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I switched out the word "monitor" for "hardware". Thanks for the heads up. (Guyinblack25 talk 14:10, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  All this business about the monitor. 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Following a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games (), I've added a citation to Cashbox for the release date.  The game was initially shown at the AMOA show in 1980, but Cashbox seems to indicate that the first non-sample units were manufactured in March 1981. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 19:43, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: While the  was March 1981, the US Copyright Office lists the publication date as November 11, 1980 (registration number PA0000097373), presumably the date when it began location testing. What do other editors think about changing the release date to November 1980 and the article title to just Defender (video game)? Maestro2016 (talk) 19:15, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think the copyright office is useful for determining when the game was released. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:48, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release date