school me on stargate vs defender

I had a nice Defender with good original paint, and ended up selling it after I restored a Stargate. The Stargate came out great.

Last year, I picked up a rough Defender cabinet and most of the parts. Got it home and realized that there was still something eating the front panel on the Defender, termites or something, so it did not come inside.

Since I have boards and all the bits to put a Defender back together, I'm really considering cutting a new cabinet from birch plywood, using the old as a guide. Wouldn't be original, but would be a fun build, and give me a reason to use all the parts.
 
Honestly though I don't think it's possible to keep both games if you actually play them regularly, at least I wasn't able to. The problem is using inviso is a must on Stargate and after you play it for a while using it becomes second nature.

I constantly do this going back to Defender. After playing them enough back to back, I'm able to acclimate to the missing Inviso button after a couple games. It is funny how your brain just tells you to do this even though Defender throws way less shit at you.
 
I've posted this before, but I showed my Stargate to my bro in law a few years ago, he was just in his late 20s. His impression was that it looked way too hard and ridiculous controls.

I found the controls very easy to learn. Left hand handled "up/down" and "Reverse", while my right hand busied all fingers and my thumb. It felt very natural to me.
 
I found the controls very easy to learn. Left hand handled "up/down" and "Reverse", while my right hand busied all fingers and my thumb. It felt very natural to me.

Agreed. Easy to learn / intuitive. Difficult to master.
My brain is too slow for either DFNDR or SG.
 
I constantly do this going back to Defender. After playing them enough back to back, I'm able to acclimate to the missing Inviso button after a couple games. It is funny how your brain just tells you to do this even though Defender throws way less shit at you.

Interesting, I wasn't able to make the transition that quickly, definitely took time for me.
 
http://pinballmd.com/williams-stargate/ Stargate is a deeper game, but they both kick may ass in a very ugly manner. I think the 19-in-1 might speed up a little quicker, but I'm not good enough to know.

The new version of the JROK also lets you run them at higher clock speed. It almost makes it feel like a different game, because exploiting the CPU slowdown by shooting and carrying humanoids is part of the strategy of the default speed.
 
Everyone should own a defender if for no other reason than the sound it makes when you coin it up
Quite possibly the coolest arcade related sound they ever came up with.
 
Everyone should own a defender if for no other reason than the sound it makes when you coin it up
Quite possibly the coolest arcade related sound they ever came up with.

I've always loved the starting sound. Probably my favorite arcade start sound of all time.
 
... I showed my Stargate to my bro in law a few years ago, he was just in his late 20s. His impression was that it looked way too hard and ridiculous controls.

And did you tell him that he was right?

:D
 
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