Andes Attack is a Defender clone by Jeff Minter. In a true Minter fashion, instead of the original’s humans, you are out to rescue llamas which are under attack by the aliens. The player patrols the two-way scrolling landscape waiting for marauding aliens trying to abduct the llamas. You have to destroy the aliens before they manage to whisk away your precious camelid, if they manage to get them to the top of the screen they mutate into horrors that will come after you, resulting in a fatal collision. Each surviving llama gives you a bonus at the end of each stage.
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Recognizing the limitations of its hardware and understanding home ports of this era needed to make significant sacrifices, I can praise it as a decent conversion of Defender, but everything is a lot bigger than the original and there's no minimap so it's hard to react to everything. It's like SNES Mega Man & Bass vs. GBA Mega Man & Bass.