I remember back when i was 9 my brother in law would take me to the reccenter in grand forks ND and there I would play defender for hours on end every body at the place wondered how a 9 year old boy could be so good at defender I was scorring into the 500,000's and every body would leave their games to watch me play even the people woh worked there would come to watch me play i was know as "kid defender" and every body knew me there. besides defender i also liked to play pacman, mspacman the slow version tapper with that cool tap lever, joust mr do the mr do game had a 35 inch screen :) space invaders, and donkey kong jr.(posted 9750 days ago)but we move to england and i havelt played defender until i got my first pc a 386 40 and a 14.4 MODEM and got n the internet and found the shareware version of defender on a bbs but i could only score 50,000 beacuse i had to use the key board.
i didnt hear about mame un till 1997 when i got my pentium 200 and when i found out about defender i was extactic i got a copy from a friend and played it but it still didnt seem like the defender that i played when i was 9 so I bilt an arcade cabinet with a joystick and 6 buttons still not a defender configuration but it was close enough at the time i was back up to 200,000 aand today I am just passing 400,000
now my 4 year old brother likes to play defender and mr dos castle (he likes the music) and he moves the stick but i have to fire for him he cant get past the 2 stage in defender or the 3 stage in do's castle but he can perform every fatality in mortal kombat (although i will admit i LOVE the darkstalkers series, the street fighter sieres and the KOF and SS neogeo fighting games) i dont go to the arcade any more because all you see are fighting driving flying and shooting games