Robotron 2084 is often remembered as the first survival game of all time, much like Atari's famous Berzerk, you play as a man fighting off against an impossible horde of robots, aiming for a high score while rescuing humans spread across the screen, the difficulty increases exponentially with each wave, by making the robots faster and swarming the player. Beware though, that humanoids rescue can be shot by the enemy robots. This game is a spiritual predecessor to the more popular "Smash T.V.".
While the game is incredibly ugly, epileptic at times; graphics will keep you hooked, its colorful and contrasted graphics worked well with the powerful glow and full contrast of the CRT television and arcade monitors.
It was a major innovation at the time that has inspired other games since then; an inspiration not only to the more popular "Smash T.V.", but to any bullet hell, twin-stick games, and survival games from our relative present.
The randomly generated elements of the game allowed it to remain "fresh", in Jarvis' own words; as opposed to the more mechanized "Donkey Kong" or "Frogger" with little to no RNG, Robotron was all about the element of surprise, which contributed to the overall action and frenetic nature of the game.
While the game is incredibly ugly, epileptic at times; graphics will keep you hooked, its colorful and contrasted graphics worked well with the powerful glow and full contrast of the CRT television and arcade monitors.
It was a major innovation at the time that has inspired other games since then; an inspiration not only to the more popular "Smash T.V.", but to any bullet hell, twin-stick games, and survival games from our relative present.
The randomly generated elements of the game allowed it to remain "fresh", in Jarvis' own words; as opposed to the more mechanized "Donkey Kong" or "Frogger" with little to no RNG, Robotron was all about the element of surprise, which contributed to the overall action and frenetic nature of the game.