Defender for the Atari 2600 is a classic side-scrolling shooting game and an adaptation of the acclaimed arcade title. As a space shooter or shoot-'em-up, players navigate a spacecraft across a wraparound, two-dimensional landscape. The objective is to protect humanoids from alien abductors while dodging and destroying various extraterrestrial threats. This Atari 2600 version simplified the arcade's graphics for the home console but retained the fast-paced and challenging gameplay that made Defender a genre-defining hit in the early 1980s.