After the grounding role of a refuse collector in Trashman from yesterday’s Your Sinclair Top 100, we’re back into the murky depths of outer space in this Defender-like game, as No.#85 on the list is Guardian 2.
Published by Hi Tec Software in 1990, I recently discovered – thanks to a programmer from the past named Rich Stevenson – that Guardian 2 was actually based on Defender’s arcade sequel Stargate and not on Defender itself.
For those that don’t know the basics of Defender or Stargate, you play a lone ship flying across an endless landscape, numerous waves of alien swine’s attack you from all sides and attempt to make-off with the humans from the ground below.
Guardian 2 is quite a good clone of Stargate, though the controls are overly twitchy and the enemies tend to vanish on the odd occasion. Nevertheless it’s still a very enjoyable game.
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Originally published June 4, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
