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Stargate

Description

The player's ship flies over a horizontally scrolling planet surface, protecting friendly humanoids from alien abduction. Destroying all enemies advances you to the next wave. Loss of all humanoids destroys the planet until it is reinstated every fifth wave.

Stargate was produced by Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) in 1981.

Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) released 215 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1959. Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) was based in United States.

Other machines made by Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) during the time period Stargate was produced include: Blackout, Beatles, The - Custom, Firepower, Black Knight, Algar, Barracora, Pharaoh, Cyclone (1981), Jungle Lord, and Furie

Specs

Name	Stargate
Developer	Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) (United States)
Year	1981
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9780
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Space
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Williams
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 2-way (up, down) Buttons: 6 - ReverseThrustFireHyperspaceSmart BombInviso
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - 227 lbs Cabaret/Mini - 155 lbs Cocktail
Control Panel	Stargate Control Panel Image
Side Art	Stargate Side Art Image
PCB	Stargate PCB Image

Video Clips

Williams StarGate Arcade Game 1981

Williams Stargate (Defender 2) -- Instructional Video

Williams Stargate Cabaret Arcade Video Game

Game Play

The stargate itself can be flown into by the player. If a humanoid is being abducted, the player is taken to the area of the abduction. If the player has 4 or more humanoids attached to their ship, the player is Warped forward three waves. Otherwise, the stargate transports the player to the other side of the planet. Waves 5, 15, 25 etc. are Yllabian Dogfight waves, where the player is in space (no planet or humanoids) against an Armada of Yllabian Space Guppies. Waves 10, 20 30 etc. are Firebomber Showdown waves. A special 2000 point bonus can be gained by simultaneously catching and dropping off a falling humanoid as the last event in a wave once all the enemies have been destroyed.

Stargate KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.69 (12 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.62

Overall Like	3.83
Fun (Social)	3.00
Fun (Solo)	4.00
Collector Desire	3.25

Technical Rating: 3.78

Gameplay	4.25
Graphics	3.92
Originality	3.18
Sound/Music	3.83

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

An easter egg is hidden in the game displaying the games credits. To perform this trick, three sequences of joystick movements andor button presses must be executed within a quarter of a second of each other without the player dying.

Move the joystick down and press the one player start, reverse, and thrust.
Press reverse, two player start, and fire.
Move the joystick down and press one player start, thrust and fire.

Images

Trivia

Approximately 26000 uprights were made plus about 1000 cocktail tables.PFor legal reasons, the name was later changed to IDefender III for home versions such as the NES cartridge and the emulation on IArcades Greatest HitsI.PThe names of some of the enemies in the game are Williams competitors names spelled backwards the Yllabian Yllab is Bally and the Irata Atari.

Conversion

The cabinet will accept a IDefenderI board set.

Miscellaneous

Play the game online requires Shockwave at httpwww.shockwave.comswcontentdefender2 PDesigned by Vid Kidz Eugene Jarvis and Larry Demar who also designed IDefenderI, IRobotron 2084I and IBlasterI for Williams Electronics. IStargateI was produced in upright, cocktail and mini cabinet versions. In Europe the game was manufactured under license by Williams Streets, commonly in a mini cabinet with different poorer artwork. The game is also known as IDefender StargateI and IDefender III.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Stargate Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 484 known instances of this machine owned by Stargate collectors who are active members. Of these, 440 of them are original dedicated machines. 13 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 31 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 25 active VAPS members with a Stargate machines for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 17 active VAPS members currently looking for Stargate. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Stargate boards sets.

This game ranks a 84 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Williams' Line-up of Games

1983 / 8 Pages

Advertising and Promotions

1982 / 10 Pages

Technical

There are no DIP switches for difficulty settings its all handled in software and on the screen. The sound board has its own CPU. Both the Sound CPU and the Game CPU are Motorola 6809.

Legacy

Manuals

Drawing Set - Stargate Manual — **Drawing Set**
(19 pages, 1.9 MB File)

Schematic - Stargate Manual — **Schematic**
(2 pages, 334 kB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 98; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 98; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (210ad220444a42dba63a9d7f761c674d)
3D Model (External): Cabaret (8e8da08de899eca9b56265edc340dccf)

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