Robotron: 2084 for the Apple II

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Published on October 13, 2011 9:19:28 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWU8-f5WM6w

Game:

Robotron: 2084 (1982)

Duration: 3:15

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Came also out for:

Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari 8-bit
Atari ST
BBC Micro
Commodore 64
Lynx
PC Booter
TI-99/4A
VIC-20
Xbox 360
ZX Spectrum


Game description:

This is a port of the arcade game of the same name.

You are a mutant human, who by some freak of nature has the ability to shoot energy pulses from his body in eight different directions! Your job is simple: save humanity from their own creation -- the ROBOTRONS! The gameplay is pretty unique for the time. You can move and fire in any of eight directions. You get thrown in a room with various evil baddies strewn about, you've got to kill all the robots while at the same time finding some way to grab humans and avoid death


What I think:

I really, really like Robotron, but while this is not a bad version overall, I'm not really happy with the controls. They could've been better.