Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Defender really was very underrated.

I think part of the problem is that it wasn't very appealing or eye-catching. When I first saw it, I had zero desire to play it and chose things like Pac-Man and Centipede instead.

Then my parents bought me Defender for Atari, so I had to try it out. The Atari version was actually fairly good, and it became my favorite game for awhile. Then I went to go play it in the arcade, and I enjoyed it as well.

Another seriously underrated early '80s game was Elevator Action.




and also spy hunter