Tag Archives: Shoot-em-up

Ah, Defender. How many shiny silver coins I wasted in your good name in my youth! For the uninitiated, Defender was a sideways-scrolling shoot-em-up from 1980 in which you controlled a spaceship on an alien planet. The aim of the game was to kill aliens (I believe that was a mandatory sub-plot of all games in the 1980s) and rescue humans, whilst trying to not to crash your spacecraft. Now, in 2009, Kiwi developers Majic Jungle have re-made this classic game in the shape of Chopper for iPhone. But is it worthy of its predecessor?