Robotron 2084 for the Atari 8-bit family

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Published on March 3, 2014 5:30:53 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqybg-cnKGA

Game:

Robotron: 2084 (1982)

Duration: 1:11

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Came also out for:

Apple II
Arcade
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari ST
BBC Micro
Commodore 64
Electron
Lynx
PC Booter
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:

Quite fun and challenging. But when you play this version for the first time you have no idea who or where your character is.