Robocop 2 (Arcade) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
506A playthrough of Data East's 1991 license-based arcade action game RoboCop 2
Played through on the machine's default difficulty setting.
Following up on their hit 1988 arcade title based on the first RoboCop movie (https://youtu.be/H3anFdSMn1o ), Data East once again plants you in shoes of Alex Murphy, a cyborg police officer built by Omni Consumer Products.
Your mission is to take down Cain, a notorious dealer who is responsible for the spread of Nuke, a highly addictive synthetic drug, on the streets of Detroit.
RoboCop 2 does away with most of the platforming elements from the first game, and the gun play feels a lot like Midway's NARC. You have two fire buttons - one to fire left, the other right - and a jump button. You can punch and throw enemies if you can get close to them, and once in a while you'll be given weapons that can clear out a room in seconds.
Occasionally enemies will swarm in to attack from the background and the game will switch to a shooting gallery style of play - think Cabal or Nam 1975. There are a few cool bonus stages that have you shooting at targets in fast-paced autoscrolling segments that resemble the old sprite-scaling racing games like OutRun or Cisco Heat.
The game is loaded with huge sprites, photos digitized from the movie, and sampled voices and sound effects, and there is some cool attention paid to little details. You can destroy actual Data East games in the arcade scene, and I loved Cain's animation when the little screen pops out of his robot to show his face laughing at you. The digitized music is great, too, even though the loops are a bit awkwardly cut.
It's short, mindless, and fairly easy, but it is a lot of fun as an arcade game, and it's a whole lot better than the film it's based on.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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