- Hey, It's That Sound!: The NES adaptation of Defender II borrowed a few sounds and songs from Punch-Out!!. The title screen tune of Defender II is the "begin round" music from Punch-Out, albeit with a Star Wars-esque flourish at the end. The tune that plays when you win a round in Defender II is the music that plays when you lose a match in Punch-Out. Lastly, and much more subtly, the sound of enemies exploding in Defender II is one of the sound effects that plays when an opponent in Punch-Out is knocked down. Nintendo had a hand in the development of the NES port (see below).
- Market-Based Title: The NES version was called Stargate in Japan (like the original arcade version) and Defender II in America for name recognition (the Atari 2600 version was also rereleased with this title around the same time).
- The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The NES adaptation of Defender II (as well as Joust and Millipede) had been co-developed by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory in 1983. They were meant to be part of the deal Atari had with Nintendo distribute the Famicom outside of Japan, but after a confluence of factors related to The Great Video Game Crash of 1983 killed the deal, HAL published the game by themselves in 1987, four years later.
- Similarly Named Works: Defender II was originally named Stargate.
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