Videocart-13: Robot War, Torpedo Alley

Videocart-13: Robot War, Torpedo Alley

released on Jul 01, 1977

Videocart-13: Robot War, Torpedo Alley

released on Jul 01, 1977

This cart contains two different games. The first game is Robot War. It takes place on a space station. The computer malfunctioned and now four robots are out to hunt down the player. Gameplay mainly has the player trying to trick the pursuing robots into one of the four electrified force fields littered throughout the playfield. Every time the player is touched by a robot, one of the force fields disappear. Once all the force fields disappear, the player loses a point to the robots. If all the robots are defeated, the player gets a point for that round. The game also features an option for two players, where the second player takes control of the robots. The game features four game speeds from slowest to fastest The other game is Torpedo Alley. Players control a shore battery at the bottom of the screen and shoot at an invading fleet of ships above them. Each hit ship is worth a different amount of points, with the lowest ship being worth 1 point, the middle ship worth 3 points, and the highest ship worth 5 points. The game ends when a player reaches 99 points or the adjustable time limit expires. This preprogrammed cartridge plugs into the console of the Fairchild Video Entertainment System for more TV fun. The hunter or the hunted. Take your choice in these action-packed one and two-player games.


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Um jogo super simples de desviar de inimigos e fazê-los bater em obstáculos. Mas, hey, é um jogo "de verdade", meio que raridade no Fairchild. Bônus: certamente um jogo de torpedo para o Fairchild.

Possibly the first game where you have to kite enemies and another iteration of Air-Sea Battle.

Another 2 for 1! Robot war is an interesting one, rather than actually fighting these robots you simply guide them into blue squares. Their AI is bad even for this standard, they basically just copy your exact movements, which means on low speeds is pathetically easy, and at high speeds it's still pathetically easy however sometimes they get a cheap point off you every now and then. Also sometimes when they run into you they instantly die, and also they sometimes break the blue squares? Not really sure how that works. The icon for this game also has a robot design on it which is definitely NOT R2D2.

Torpedo Alley is basically just a worse version of Air-Sea Battle on Atari, or a really bad version of Space Invaders. The slow fire speed VS the ultra-fast boats was honestly just quite annoying.