RoboCop (Arcade) - Playthrough
4In this video, I'm doing a playthrough of a game that is based on the 1987 action movie with the same name. That game is: RoboCop for the Arcade. This game was developed and published by Data East, it was released in 1988. RoboCop was ported to many home computers and consoles, such as: Apple II, PC compatibles, Amiga and Atari ST, which is the arcade version released in the same year. The Apple and PC ports were developed by Quicksilver Software, while the Amiga and ST versions were developed directly by Ocean. Data East published the game in North America. A NES port followed in 1989, developed by Sakata SAS Co, and a version for the TRS-80 CoCo 3. Ocean developed and published a version for the Game Boy in 1990. In 1989, Ocean released a different Robocop game that only bore a loose resemblance to the arcade; this version was produced for the Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Tandy Color Computer 3 and Amstrad CPC, as well as PC compatibles, meaning that PCs ended up with two entirely different Robocop games for North American and European audiences. As with many Ocean C64 titles, both cassette and disk versions were released; the North American release (also published by Data East) was based on the disk version. All C64 RoboCop versions were notorious for having high numbers of bugs; in 2015, cracker group Nostalgia released a completely bug-fixed Robocop compatible with both PAL and NTSC machines. A port of the game for the Atari Jaguar was planned but never released. The arcade game was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage. Robocop is a hybrid game, featuring elements from both beat 'em up as well as run and gun titles. The plot goes like this: Patrolman Alex Murphy was killed on the streets of Detroit. The major corporation there, Omni Consumer Products (OCP) saw an opportunity to sell a new kind of law enforcement officer to the troubled city. They took what was left of Murphy, encased it in titanium armor, wiped his memory and created RoboCop. Now it's up to RoboCop to clean the streets of Detroit and eliminate the one responsible for his murder, Clarence Boddicker. But it looks like Clarence might not be the kingpin of this town... Based on the 1987 movie of the same name, RoboCop allows the player to control RoboCop. The majority of the game is a side scroller. RoboCop can punch unarmed citizens and shoot armed citizens. He can move left, right, duck and jump. Different weapons can be picked up from enemies, and power-ups to restore health and/or energy. Following levels, RoboCop will have to match a criminal's face to the proper mugshot and engage in a first-person shooting bonus round. Amiga and Atari ST versions are faithful to the original level design of the Arcade game, but they also add first-person rescue hostage scenarios, and a mini-game where the player needs to match the suspects' faces. Overall, RoboCop for the Arcade can be tough at times, but it's still a great game based on the movie. I highly recommend to give this game a try. I hope you enjoy this playthrough of RoboCop for the Arcade and thanks for watching!
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