Love Robotron. I played this back when it first came out in the arcades. It's a masterpiece, and fun to play even today. Nobody made games like Williams, not back then, and not today. Even their sound effects have not been topped by any game i have ever played. Robotron, Defender, Stargate, all materpieces of video game creativity. Those were exciting times back when video games were at their first prime.
Peace and God's Blessings to you and yours...Indeed! I was there as well...10,000,000,1060 was my highest score. That's 400 free men and over 350 screens cleared...1 Love/Peace
I'm in awe at the level 45 play. That game had you on the ropes and you managed to string together a shit ton of family and recovered a bunch of lives with an honorable mention to level 49
The young ones, they don't understand how "better graphics" doesn't always equal a better game. This 'golden oldie' is a hell of a lot better than a good 75 to 80% of the games that are out there, past and present -and I should know, because I've been playing video games with a passion since at least 1975 if not earlier!
Peace and God's Blessings to you and yours....Indeed, I agree. I remember seeing Robotron back in the "Space Center" arcade located in Penn Station way back in 1984. I was fascinated by everything that was going on and everything that I had to be aware. The sound, a free man every 25,000 points....I was ll in lol! It took me 4 years, but sometime in 1988 I turned the whole machine over at 9,999,999, finishing with a final score of 10,000,000,1060. Of course that score wouldn't have showed like that, you'd have to just add the extra points to the 9,999,999 other points to get your final total...So, let's do the math 10,000,000 points at 25,000 points a free man comes out to 400 free men...I can't remember exactly, but I do remember that I cleared over 350 screens...."The young ones, they don't understand" Today's games mostly deal with violence, the apocalypse, something mythical, or something dealing with the occult. No wonder we're losing our youth....Look what we give them a steady dose of! Can/ or will making games more Positively themed have a profound effect on our youth? I don't know, but it's better than what's being passed off as entertainment....Yes, but, at what cost....Be well Brother, they should bring back the old arcade games every year for like a month or two...1 Love
+007Thanos007 People don't understand that high tech graphics are nothing without a dedicated artist behind them. It's why there are games from all eras that look like trash and games from all eras that look fantastic.
There were only a handful of games that I was pretty good at. This was one of them. I could almost always play as much as I wanted on one quarter until I got tired and walked away, or if the game overheated and reset. Great game.
Back in the early eighties, if you walked in or by an arcade, you heard certain games over the others: Robotron, Pacman and Asteroids, for example. Good times.
This and Defender. People would watch me play and ask "Dude, how in the hell are you so great at this game?" ... I'd mess with 'em and say "On my planet, this is nothing" 😄🤣😄🤣
You were doing very well, waves 1-20 with lots of people points, I was hoping you'd achieve 1 million by the 30th wave. You left many people points on the table in the other waves. Gotta scoop up the family!
This is one of the most intense games to play of all time. I really respect anybody who could play for more than maybe 10 waves...at least for his playing ability. It requires such focus. I'd like to see this game redone and modernized and make use of 4K or even 8K displays
Great job man ! I shoot behind me at the grunts a lot more, because it has a pretty high hit probability. Once you kill all the grunts, you are no longer under any pressure to run away from them, and you now have the freedom to go wherever you want.
Played this since the day it was invented. By far, the most adrenaline fast-paced game ever. When you roll it at 10,000,000 and give the rest of the game to someone else with 30 free men saved, you walk away noticing your legs are pumped and stiff from just standing, probably because of the body movement during the game LOL
I consider myself an above average player at this game. The key is to minimize huge losses of life in various waves and to constantly pick up humanoids to get extra lives. But even the best players get caught up with the speed and ferocity this game throws at you. Btw, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
Jarvis must have been watching Star Wars, and upon observing the scene where Han Solo attacks the Storm Troopers only to face a whole legion of them, he decided, "Hey, let's make a whole game like that one scene!"
yah back in the 70s 80s and early 90s arcade were great nowadays kids got game consoles to play at home secluded no friends to hangout their while playing kinda sad brings me back to my first arcade visit in 1978 first game I played was Star Invaders got hooked on it Robotron is a great game
At my local arcade, there were a squad of us that could put up 10 million anytime you asked. One day we teamed up and had 42,500,000 when the arcade owner turned the game off and gave us our token back.
When I played that video game in the 1990s, it is a little bit like the movie "Tron" in some way. The enforcer and tank robotrons - were my biggest pet peeves as I try to shoot them down. The hulk robotrons (mainly in a big fat light green appearance) were indestructible, impervious to my laser shots, and cannot be shot down. They need to be avoided at all costs and dodged---you crash into them, you lose your life. One secret to cutting back on the number of enforcer and tank robotrons that will target you is to shoot down the spheroids and the quarks (those usually red-colored cylinders moving about that look like strobe lights) as much as possible before those nasty robotrons grow out of them. The enforcer robotrons shoot what I call cross-colored sharpnel aiming right at you. You get hit with those projectiles, you are done. It is a challenging video game.
I'm sure someone out there who's way smarter than me can name a specific video game that represents one of the three components of the human psyche (id, ego, superego). But what I can say, without fear of contradiction, that Robotron is pure id: all impulse and instinct, and nothing else. If you think about what you're doing, even for a split second, you're dead, and you're hyper kinetic mind state is broken.
That's a great way of looking at it and I must say I agree with you. The moment I think in the game 'I want to..' go over there, shoot that etc, it's death. Robotron is all instinctual reaction, like riding a motorbike at 200Kmh
The games aren't similar. But I came of age in the 80's video game era. In my opinion, Ms. Pac-Man, Robotron, and Galaga were the best video games of each style created.
Good game play. I have an OEM game here (in my living room actually) that I play daily and I get the feeling the MAME isn't quite as hard as the ROM boardset. Could be - just didn't look like it based upon playing every day. Have always loved this game for it's intensity, the skill required to master the contols, and that sound. Guess that's why we still play to this day right.
As a kid, I had a few other kids tell me they made it to 2 million and I thought they were just talking sheet, since I never personally witnessed anybody making it above some 300,000, like I did as well. Now I've seen it here. And it gets much tougher at 2 million with indestructible hulks all over the place and faster than ever!
You really need two industrial joysticks like the arcade version to play this game well. I remember going what must have been about 5 hours on one quarter thinking I was going to "roll it" only to reach disappointment at 100,000,000 points when it didn't roll over like many games would in that era.
I never played this in the arcade but I did play it on the Midway Arcade Collection on the PS2. Not sure if playing with analog sticks instead of arcade sticks made it harder or if I just sucked at it, but I played it for a little while and couldn’t get further than like the 4th wave before Game Over. I was a little better at Smash TV. Fun games.
A few restaurants had 1 game machine with about 20 games. Having the two joysticks gives precise control for sharp movements and can feel the diagonals ↗️↖️. On the n64 was the yellow buttons for robotron64
@@jobsisx I have an AtGames Legends Ultimate that I might be able to get these games running on. I'll give it a try over this long weekend. I'd love to try this game with somewhat close to the original arcade experience.
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One of the best if not the best arcade game of all time! Great game play!!!
The gameplay sounds are among the best in arcade history.
Agreed. So iconic.
And to think that (if I remember correctly), those sounds were created WITHOUT a dedicated sound chip, but rather through some analog means.
Nuts
The inhumane 😱 screams.
Indeed same as super defender
Never walked into an arcade without hearing this somewhere. Ah, the ambiance.
This game is freaking nerve wracking. It just keeps coming at you NON STOP. Relentless S.O.B
Yeah absolutely!! Galaxian is really hard, but at least you don't have a trillion bullets flying at you nonstop!!
you couldnt enter an arcade without hearing this game immediately no matter its location......its noise is burned into my brain.
Was a very loud game to say the least and Defender.
Run robo run.
Love Robotron. I played this back when it first came out in the arcades. It's a masterpiece, and fun to play even today. Nobody made games like Williams, not back then, and not today. Even their sound effects have not been topped by any game i have ever played. Robotron, Defender, Stargate, all materpieces of video game creativity. Those were exciting times back when video games were at their first prime.
Peace and God's Blessings to you and yours...Indeed! I was there as well...10,000,000,1060 was my highest score. That's 400 free men and over 350 screens cleared...1 Love/Peace
One of the most intense, fast paced, insane and crazy games ever created.
I'm in awe at the level 45 play. That game had you on the ropes and you managed to string together a shit ton of family and recovered a bunch of lives with an honorable mention to level 49
I played so much of this amazing game it feels like I'm playing while watching.
The young ones, they don't understand how "better graphics" doesn't always equal a better game. This 'golden oldie' is a hell of a lot better than a good 75 to 80% of the games that are out there, past and present -and I should know, because I've been playing video games with a passion since at least 1975 if not earlier!
Peace and God's Blessings to you and yours....Indeed, I agree. I remember seeing Robotron back in the "Space Center" arcade located in Penn Station way back in 1984. I was fascinated by everything that was going on and everything that I had to be aware. The sound, a free man every 25,000 points....I was ll in lol! It took me 4 years, but sometime in 1988 I turned the whole machine over at 9,999,999, finishing with a final score of 10,000,000,1060. Of course that score wouldn't have showed like that, you'd have to just add the extra points to the 9,999,999 other points to get your final total...So, let's do the math 10,000,000 points at 25,000 points a free man comes out to 400 free men...I can't remember exactly, but I do remember that I cleared over 350 screens...."The young ones, they don't understand" Today's games mostly deal with violence, the apocalypse, something mythical, or something dealing with the occult. No wonder we're losing our youth....Look what we give them a steady dose of! Can/ or will making games more Positively themed have a profound effect on our youth? I don't know, but it's better than what's being passed off as entertainment....Yes, but, at what cost....Be well Brother, they should bring back the old arcade games every year for like a month or two...1 Love
+007Thanos007
People don't understand that high tech graphics are nothing without a dedicated artist behind them. It's why there are games from all eras that look like trash and games from all eras that look fantastic.
Peace and God's Blessings to you and yours... Indeed, you are correct....
Very true. The playability of those 80's games were off the charts!
Killa sound effects. Williams is/was the best!
Williams rocked.
Joust, my pers fav.
congrats on your 2,000,000 score, I'm still stuck at 1 million, what a game, Robotron is the best
The best game ever made .
Thanks vid kidz.
There were only a handful of games that I was pretty good at. This was one of them. I could almost always play as much as I wanted on one quarter until I got tired and walked away, or if the game overheated and reset. Great game.
My all time favorite arcade game. How is it not at or near the top of everyone's list?
It was #1, but only for the real gamers back in the day. It's the gamer's game of choice
Back in the early eighties, if you walked in or by an arcade, you heard certain games over the others: Robotron, Pacman and Asteroids, for example. Good times.
This game and Defender were totally Rock N Roll!
It may not look like it, kids, but back then, this game was a sweaty workout when playing the cabinet.
Underrated comment!
This and Defender. People would watch me play and ask "Dude, how in the hell are you so great at this game?" ... I'd mess with 'em and say "On my planet, this is nothing" 😄🤣😄🤣
You were doing very well, waves 1-20 with lots of people points, I was hoping you'd achieve 1 million by the 30th wave. You left many people points on the table in the other waves. Gotta scoop up the family!
That's not what got him. What got him was that he panicked too much.
Dope sound effects!!!!
This is one of the most intense games to play of all time. I really respect anybody who could play for more than maybe 10 waves...at least for his playing ability. It requires such focus.
I'd like to see this game redone and modernized and make use of 4K or even 8K displays
Crimsonland?
I was Robotron king. On one quarter, I could roll the score over back to 0, in about three hours.
I always got in trouble on the tank rounds. They bounced shots off the wall and I was done.
You are a total master at this game and picking up people points. Great game!
This is the boys only club of video game era.
Thanks for the memories. How many quarters....
I think the Williams arcade machines had the best game sounds. Brings back so many memories.
Defender, Stargate, Robotron, Joust... Williams (Jarvis!) was an absolute BEAST.
Now look at game developers today........
Video game perfection.
This game is sure noisy :)
Loved it!
In the future, when things go pear-shaped, I want this guy at the guns because he remembers it's all about the family.
Great job man ! I shoot behind me at the grunts a lot more, because it has a pretty high hit probability. Once you kill all the grunts, you are no longer under any pressure to run away from them, and you now have the freedom to go wherever you want.
This is the greatest play I have ever seen, good on you man!
Im 54, Me and a friend use to get stoned and play this game for hours at chuck e cheese back in the early 80's. :)
Fuckin' Amazing! Love the audio as well, great bass!
You did really well getting your lives back up after getting so low in the 30's. You should easily be able to make wave 100 soon man. =)
Played this since the day it was invented. By far, the most adrenaline fast-paced game ever. When you roll it at 10,000,000 and give the rest of the game to someone else with 30 free men saved, you walk away noticing your legs are pumped and stiff from just standing, probably because of the body movement during the game LOL
this was so beautiful
I consider myself an above average player at this game. The key is to minimize huge losses of life in various waves and to constantly pick up humanoids to get extra lives. But even the best players get caught up with the speed and ferocity this game throws at you. Btw, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
Robotron was the best game
Amazing game. Clever use of two joysticks to move and fire, which def made the game harder.
This is probably my favorite game from the arcade era 👍
I spent a bunch of quarters on this baby 💰
I agree. This came got your heart rate up and ate quarters like nothing else. Defender was up there too but Robotron was the most addictive.
@@kowalski3769 I downloaded a PC game called “Llamatron” years and years ago which was also fun.
Always loved the shooters. Good memories. 😊
Jarvis must have been watching Star Wars, and upon observing the scene where Han Solo attacks the Storm Troopers only to face a whole legion of them, he decided, "Hey, let's make a whole game like that one scene!"
You kicked Robotron ass my friend. My highscore so far is around 550,000.
I used to play that on my Apple II+. Those brains were evil. What a memory.
As a kid I always imagined this game made into a movie with Michael Biehn as the warrior robot I guess like Mega Man. Also well played on wave 49.
Congratulations on one helluva Robotron ass whoopin'. YOU TERMINATED THEM. Hasta la vista baby.
@5:19 ahhhh yes......5 beautiful seconds of that extra life uninterrupted....👏
this game was hard as hell!
yah back in the 70s 80s and early 90s arcade were great nowadays kids got game consoles to play at home secluded no friends to hangout their while playing kinda sad brings me back to my first arcade visit in 1978 first game I played was Star Invaders got hooked on it Robotron is a great game
Thanks for the memories. ❤
He heee brings back memories. So much fun! TY
Newer video games dont inspire such a profound anxiety attack like my beloved vintage games.
In the 80s, I ruled at this game. The top score at the arcade was always mine.
At my local arcade, there were a squad of us that could put up 10 million anytime you asked. One day we teamed up and had 42,500,000 when the arcade owner turned the game off and gave us our token back.
When I played that video game in the 1990s, it is a little bit like the movie "Tron" in some way. The enforcer and tank robotrons - were my biggest pet peeves as I try to shoot them down. The hulk robotrons (mainly in a big fat light green appearance) were indestructible, impervious to my laser shots, and cannot be shot down. They need to be avoided at all costs and dodged---you crash into them, you lose your life. One secret to cutting back on the number of enforcer and tank robotrons that will target you is to shoot down the spheroids and the quarks (those usually red-colored cylinders moving about that look like strobe lights) as much as possible before those nasty robotrons grow out of them. The enforcer robotrons shoot what I call cross-colored sharpnel aiming right at you. You get hit with those projectiles, you are done. It is a challenging video game.
That is some fucking epic robotron-ing.
Well played, Sir!
Williams games were always way too hard for ordinary mortals.
My father finished the game many many times. And he was the best robotron player in east of america
This was the loudest game in the Arcade !
I don't know, I played a lot of Gyruss.
@@fuzzywzhe o don’t know I played a lot of killer instinct
I'm sure someone out there who's way smarter than me can name a specific video game that represents one of the three components of the human psyche (id, ego, superego). But what I can say, without fear of contradiction, that Robotron is pure id: all impulse and instinct, and nothing else. If you think about what you're doing, even for a split second, you're dead, and you're hyper kinetic mind state is broken.
That's a great way of looking at it and I must say I agree with you. The moment I think in the game 'I want to..' go over there, shoot that etc, it's death. Robotron is all instinctual reaction, like riding a motorbike at 200Kmh
I admire his greed too, get as many points as you can and not worry about dying.
I remember being so stoked when I finally scored 1 million point on that game.
One could say that Robotron 2084 was the grandfather of Smash TV.
if anything, robotron would be the father to smash tv. now you COULD call robotron the "grandfather" of total carnage..
Because both two were made by the same guy.
@@josephlalock8378 Robotron would be the father of Smash TV, and Smash TV the older brother of Total Carnage.
This game was so hard I don't think I ever got past level 10 back in my arcade days!
I have this game. My favorite!
Superb :-)
I'm still playing this, its "Vampire Survivors" right ?
I want this game it was my favorite
yer the king of tank racks! Nice play!
The games aren't similar. But I came of age in the 80's video game era. In my opinion, Ms. Pac-Man, Robotron, and Galaga were the best video games of each style created.
tempest. include that
@@nickg8424 Also a good one.
Defender and Joust were pretty good too. Most Williams games were better than most. And their pinball machines too
Galaxian maybe??
Masterpiece.
This was a great game back in the day if you wanted to have a SEIZURE.
Or a heart attack. This was easily the most stressful game of that era.
I like the sound it makes when you finish the stage
Wave 11 was perfection.
that was fxxxing excellent.
I used to go broke playing this game!
Good game play. I have an OEM game here (in my living room actually) that I play daily and I get the feeling the MAME isn't quite as hard as the ROM boardset. Could be - just didn't look like it based upon playing every day. Have always loved this game for it's intensity, the skill required to master the contols, and that sound. Guess that's why we still play to this day right.
I spent quarters on this thing like there was no tomorrow.
Magnificent skill
Can you imagine this on a soundbar? Poor neighbors.
It sounds great to be honest
Good training for Black Friday crowds.
You are the man! That is all I have to say about that! LOL
Awesome !!
As a kid, I had a few other kids tell me they made it to 2 million and I thought they were just talking sheet, since I never personally witnessed anybody making it above some 300,000, like I did as well. Now I've seen it here. And it gets much tougher at 2 million with indestructible hulks all over the place and faster than ever!
You really need two industrial joysticks like the arcade version to play this game well. I remember going what must have been about 5 hours on one quarter thinking I was going to "roll it" only to reach disappointment at 100,000,000 points when it didn't roll over like many games would in that era.
I found my people
Setting up my dual joysticks tonight. Great play.
I think I always got to at least wave 2 before Game Over ... Robotron is a very busy game...
This got to be the reason why epilepsy warning came to be.
thanks for sharing this!
I never played this in the arcade but I did play it on the Midway Arcade Collection on the PS2. Not sure if playing with analog sticks instead of arcade sticks made it harder or if I just sucked at it, but I played it for a little while and couldn’t get further than like the 4th wave before Game Over. I was a little better at Smash TV. Fun games.
These games are much better to play with a rock solid arcade stick and smash buttons instead of a flimsy plastic controller.
A few restaurants had 1 game machine with about 20 games. Having the two joysticks gives precise control for sharp movements and can feel the diagonals ↗️↖️. On the n64 was the yellow buttons for robotron64
@@jobsisx I have an AtGames Legends Ultimate that I might be able to get these games running on. I'll give it a try over this long weekend. I'd love to try this game with somewhat close to the original arcade experience.
@@MReginaldGoldstein77 ruclips.net/video/KKbm4F8iG8M/видео.htmlsi=_LmbY17hJ7HzqEmb&t=1m29s they still have it at GameWorks in seattle
I have never seen anything such as this, I can't tell which guys to rescue and which to shoot
I can't believe I'm not having seizures from watching this.
and still way better game play than any crap on PS4, or Xbox One
Try nex machina
Fuck that best game ever put out
i cant get past wave 4 and this mad man goes to 75
nice play
Smash tv wouldn’t exist without this. Top down call of duty zombies too. Geometry wars
Too bad that the only thing I don't get back is, some of the original sounds of 'Robotron 2084.'
Awesome! Didn't get anywhere close at the arcade or emulator