The player flies a small spaceship above a long, mountainous landscape. The game is much harder than its predecessor. As in the first game, if all the humans are captured the planet explodes and turns all the landers into mutants. There are now two special stages, the Firebomber Showdown and the Yllabian Dogfight, that occur every fifth and tenth wave.
A Stargate will transport the ship to any humanoid in trouble. The Defender ship is now equipped with an Inviso cloaking device, which renders the ship invulnerable when activated, but has a limited charge. This sequel adds new enemy ships to the alien fleet such as firebombers, Yllabian Space Guppies (note that Yllabian is based on "Yllab", the word "Bally" spelled backwards, a friendly poke at Williams' then-competitor, Bally Midway), Dynamos and Space Hums. To complicate matters, the Atari 2600 port was originally sold under the Stargate moniker but was renamed to Defender II for a later re-release. The name Defender II has been used on all of its home ports, and game compilation appearances however, there were never any Defender II arcade units. The latter name was used in home video game releases, due to legal issues (according to the bonus material for Midway Arcade Treasures, Williams wanted to "make sure they could own the trademark" on the Defender name). The game is also known as Defender Stargate and Defender II. This video game has no connection to the subsequent Stargate franchise that began 13 years later. Created by Eugene Jarvis, it is a sequel to the 1980 game Defender, and was the first of only three productions from Vid Kidz, an independent development house formed by Jarvis and Larry DeMar. Stargate is an arcade game released in 1981 by Williams Electronics.
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