I was addicted to this game in the 80's until they all started disappearing from arcades. I was never as good as some of my friends who could really kick Robotron butt. Every time I saw a Robotron machine it was like finding the lost ark and the excitement was too much! Now I have an original Robotron at home and have been learning how to maintain it as I go, still the best video game I've ever played.
There is no coin-op game that has a more dear place in my heart. I once played a single game for hours at our local arcade when I was about 16. I had the high score and it was close to closing time so I asked if I could see how many extra men I had (It only showed 5 or so). I just killed myself off for the next five minutes. I had over 100 men left. I felt like I was the best player in the world. =)
I know the feeling Dwayne - once played this for 6 hours straight on a single game in '82. Total adrenaline rush throughout. Best arcade game ever IMHO. Wish they'd included it in "Wreck-It Ralph"!!
This was an amazing game. But the play here is novice. In these early waves you have to get through them with maybe one or two deaths. This is were you need to build up as many lives as you can, if your going to get to 99 million. I used to play this game at arcades, when I finnished if I closed my eyes I would still see the game.
@@joep6706 My hands would shake for a few hours after I quit if I played longer than an hour. Sometimes it would take me a few minutes just to kill off all the extra lives I had when I was tired of playing. The settings can be adjusted to make the game harder. I worked at an ice cream shop that had one and every couple months the level got turned up which made my skill even better as I got used to the new speed. Went to college in another state and there was a game room downtown. Went in, played one time on a machine that was set on an easy level, demolished the high score and won a t-shirt at the end of the month.
The sounds. The movement. Stuff coming from every direction! Man, this game was insane! And I loved every minute!!! I love I got to experience all of the 80's. It was such a fun time!
I knew the guy that helped write / create this game.. he and his wife had a table top game in the dining room.. it was a blast to go and play at their house!
I used to play this game for hours at my local arcade in Houston back when the game was new. I dropped in many a quarters, BUT, I do remember one afternoon with friends, I popped in one quarter and got something like 9 million points before my hands gave out. Man, those were good times, and that game is still one of the fastest games, along with Sinistar and Defender!
These sounds are like listening to your favorite old school jam, it takes you back. Like a temporary time machine, a "blast" from the past... literally! 💪🏼😆👍🏼💥🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
I literally could've played this game forever on one quarter. I turned it over twice and each time earned more men than I lost. I had hundreds of men built up before I finally had to quit when the arcade closed. I think I played for more than 8 hours.
Robotron is the best video game ever made. No other game remains as exciting and challenging and fun to play after so many years have passed. This era of videogame design will likely never come again. Game designers of today don't have a tiny fraction of the genius of Eugene Jarvis. This game was and remains absolutely incredible to play.
Yessss!!! Those two games were the best!! I didn’t have much money so I had to get good and those two games I could spend hours on just a few quarters. I miss those teen years dearly.
Thanks for showing the game. You have .25 seconds to assess the field then go. Its like looking at a pool table after the break. I turned this game over 1 million in a couple hours and walked away because my friend was bored. Didnt realize my hands were cramped to the joysticks. Had at least 10 lives left.
Just got Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits for the PS1. It has this game. I popped this son of a bitch into my PS3 and choose this game. And holy shit! This is the most balls to the wall arcade game I have ever played. It's so easy to die in this game. There is so much shit going on on the screen that you are likely to walk into something that kills you if you don't watch where you are going. This game will make you a beast. I love this game.
I just loved how you were able to run and shoot in any direction. The speed and sounds were addicting. I also loved the blue brain guys. So much fun. Good memories. 😊
Oh man this brings me back to summer of '84 maybe'85 playing at a hotel in Falmouth Ma. That was down the street from my family's cottage. They only had one game but it was enough!! I miss those days, being 14 or 15 years old. So few real problems in life back then. Hey Joe A. If you see this "hello brother" miss you too
That's some 1980's OCD, ADHD medicine all for a quarter. I remember throwing on the Sony walkman and spending some quarters on Asteroids...Defender...Robotron and many more ;)
This is awesome. I can't tell you how many quarters I sunk into this game, at the arcades, when I was a skinny, pimple faced, nerd back in the 80's. But it was alot of fun & challenging as hell. The sound f/x were great too (even if they borrowed them from their sister game - "Defender"). Would luv to play this one again sometime.
Once a gamer always a gamer!! Before Playstation,Nintendo and every game system out there we all went to our favorite arcade,local store,pizza parlor and try to beat the high score!! Memories!!! :)
Nice game play... brought back ton's of memories playing at Sinbad's in Ypsilanti Michigan in the early eighties.... This and tempest were my favorites...
To me this is one of the top 5 classic video games of all time. Forget graphics -- it's all about hand-eye coordination and reflexes. The games of the early 80's were the absolute best.
Ridiculously hard game! Williams seems to be the masters of making really hard but good games. They also did the really hard but amazing Defender, Defender Stargate & Sinistar also.
The thrum of the arcade was always amazing and Robotron 2084 was one of the games that always drew you in. In the era of boring Cold War politics and social disaffection these games and the music of the time offered a real escape from the humdrum of the world as a teenager in the early 80’s. Great era and memories!
For someone who has a heart condition, it is the most dangerous game ever invented. Highest level of adrenaline you will ever feel in a video game - especially when you're good and play the difficult waves beyond 30.
The first game with two 8-way joysticks. Your moving and shooting directions were totally independent. If you could split your brain just right you'd enter a zenlike state of consciousness and go on forever.
I agree! We have a game cabinet here at work, that is essentially a MAME situation. The controls are laid out for Street Fighter - which means it has two joysticks! I have been playing Robotron my entire life - and still play it 5 days a week, daily. Intrigue and excitement all the way!
I love the sound when he grabs the humans. I use to play for hours on 1 quarter. And I love the sound when you get a extra man. Lol! And I love the sound when the screen changes to the next level.
Robotron was my favorite game by far. I could play through hundreds of waves, as could 2 friends. We had epic battles. Once while I was playing the game at a pizzeria, I noticed there was water on the floor where I was standing, but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from because you can't pause the game, and it's too intense at higher waves to take your eyes off the screen. The water was getting worse, to the point where my running shoes were soakers. When I eventually lost my last man, I was standing in a puddle of water. WTF?? Turns out it was _my own sweat._ I was sweating so much it was pouring down my legs into my shoes as well as onto the floor. That's never happened to me before or since. That's how intense this game can get at higher waves. The grunt waves become solid masses that don't seem to shrink as you shoot them constantly while they chase you around the screen for what seems like minutes.
When I was in my teens, there was a Robotron 2084 at a Gino's near me, used to play the game every day during the summer. Got too good at it and turned it over 200 + screens and it started over again to screen 1 (score was probably 20 mil +). Must have played it for 10 hours straight on one quarter. I didn't go back to play it until weeks later and the machine was gone. Never again would I be totally sucked up into one arcade game, it was that good!. They don't make games like that any more
My high score playing Robotron was something like 4.5 million. I knew a kid that could beat the machine though. He could play it until the system overheated and went pink screen. That took about 4 hours, or so in the summer. I think the highest he ever scored before a machine crapped out was 16.5 million.
zakalwe101 Once a certain level of understanding was achieved it was just a matter of doing what needed to be done to play. Plus the game had internal difficulty settings. Lower was easier to play.
+Paul Frederick It did not overheat. Back in the day I beat the machine. Don't remember the score but at level 256 is when it quits and goes pink screen because there are no more levels. That's all the memory 256k those had then. On Galaga when I beat it at level 256 it would say Level 0 and no enemies would come out. Just you flying through space shooting nothing. You had to turn of the toggle switch on the top or back of the game to reset it. PacMan on that level would go half screen viewable. I enjoyed pissing off the arcade owners/workers who had no clue what I done to their games and thought I hit it or banged it.
Back in my youth I used to play this game a lot. My last ever game was from when the arcade opened until it closed. 10p for about 13 hours of play. The arcade asked me not to play it any more.
Best game ever. My friend turned the score over to zero after we played it a few days a week for about a month. I lost and he kept going. You get to a point where you have enough extra men that even the hard levels can't kill you off. It took him about 3 hours. A week later we both turned it over and we were there all damned night.
You mean how many quarters it sucked from your pocket. This was/is, sooooo addictive, with the sound and the visuals, I could only leave the game when I was forced to go, either for running out of money or needed to get home.😆💥💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🚫🏡🚶
This was always one of my favorite games-played this one hundreds of times...Need to get a copy...when you absorb the human it is nourishing-like drinking water-Glug Glug Glug...
Wow, great play. I just started playing robotron for the first time in 20 years and I had forgot just how difficult this game is (as a lot of the classics are, especially Williams classics)
I remember this in an arcade sometime 20 years ago. This and tempest was the only one I would play since it only cost $.25 per credit the rest of the newer games at the time were like a $1.00 so the practical choice was to play the older games since they were cheaper. I wish I can do it all over again.
I reigned supreme as the All-time best Robotron player at Castle Park Miami, FL during 1983 till 1985 (16 years old till 18 years old, born in 1967) when I was done riding the go carts or on a date with a girl or if me and my crew had the occasional break dance battles, we were just a dance gang no elaborate jackets or anything like that, I would walk over to the Robotron machine and literally spend over an hour on 1 token, my record was close to 30 million when I just had to leave with a row of free men that took up the whole top of the screen with I don't know how many beyond that, this game was hard at 1st but when your eyes adjusted to everything on screen you could really rack the points on fast, I got really good at it over the summer of either 82 or 83, we would spend our entire summer vacation from school at the beach, the hotel we rented back then was The Caravan motel which was a short walk from Marco Polo Hotel on Collins Ave (a better known hotel), The Caravan had a small game room next to the entrance, it had Joust, Defender and Robotron, however the directional Joystick on the Upright unit would go bad after a few months from all the tugging and pushing, it got to a point that people who knew who I was would intentionally block me as long as they could I would hear them whispering to the person playing hey say that I'm next because when this guy takes over the machine was gone for the night. Good Times, Good Times, this game gives you excellent hand eye coordination in no time flat
the better you do, the more claustrophobic it gets... BEST sound design (back then) ... the double joystick 360(clockstyle) movement/firing was 1`of a kind !
This really was just the most awesome game. The video was either put together just as a demo or the guy playing it wasn't very good - I recall my highest score (4 hours in) back sometime around 1985 was about 26,000,000 with dozens of extra lives stored. The secret was to stay away from the walls once the various bullets started getting fired around by the various 'bots. Running in one direction whilst shooting in another was key to being good at this game. Eugene Jarvis (the game's designer and who came up with the two joysticks idea) must have been either really wired or severely demented. I don't care which, either way he was possibly the 'grandfather' of all modern 'shoot-'em-up' video games. I'd like to thank him for his contribution to gaming and to my mis-spent youth!!
Aww... the loot I dropped on Robotron back in the day! And the BLISTERS on my fingers from playing this bad boy!! Nothing beat the sight of my initials at the top of the leaderboard! Thanks for posting this. Sure wish I could find somewhere/somehow to play now.
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I don't know why but this game is more of an audio/visual feast than most games today.
+David Hollingshead , i could not agree more! robotron is an absolute classic.
It's also an epileptic's worse nightmare!!
I agree. Pure Adrenaline!! One of my favorite!
@ right? the sounds were straight from WIlliams' pinball games. those razor sharp scales, and crunchy explosions. awesome!
Agreed! Centipede and Millipede got pretty intense too.
I seriously can not get enough of those stage transition effects and sounds.
Ditto😵 I used to love Tempest as well.
Spell them out though.
Me too - epic, evocative, legendary sounds!
@@crowndroyal luuu-luuu-luuuuu
Have you played robotron 64? It's basically all these sound effects but with more OOMPH and also music
I was addicted to this game in the 80's until they all started disappearing from arcades. I was never as good as some of my friends who could really kick Robotron butt. Every time I saw a Robotron machine it was like finding the lost ark and the excitement was too much! Now I have an original Robotron at home and have been learning how to maintain it as I go, still the best video game I've ever played.
Bastard. 🙂
Hey buddy I feel the same way! Where can I find a decent Robotron game?
There is no coin-op game that has a more dear place in my heart. I once played a single game for hours at our local arcade when I was about 16. I had the high score and it was close to closing time so I asked if I could see how many extra men I had (It only showed 5 or so). I just killed myself off for the next five minutes. I had over 100 men left. I felt like I was the best player in the world. =)
I know the feeling Dwayne - once played this for 6 hours straight on a single game in '82. Total adrenaline rush throughout. Best arcade game ever IMHO. Wish they'd included it in "Wreck-It Ralph"!!
I have actually looked into buying one but the shipping is a killer. =)
Sounds worth a look, Dwayne, you got any URLs of suppliers?!
AWESOME SAUCE.
@@steveboland111 Check out MAME32 Arcade Emulators, you'll find it on there.
this was quite possibly one of the sickest arcade games in the 80's!
Damn, that game was pure adrenaline. That 9th wave was out of control!
It's like the whole screen is filled with baddies. I felt sorry for the player on the third life, when they got trapped in the corner.
Yes, he couldn’t even move from the starting position until he died 3 times.
This was an amazing game. But the play here is novice. In these early waves you have to get through them with maybe one or two deaths. This is were you need to build up as many lives as you can, if your going to get to 99 million. I used to play this game at arcades, when I finnished if I closed my eyes I would still see the game.
@@joep6706 My hands would shake for a few hours after I quit if I played longer than an hour. Sometimes it would take me a few minutes just to kill off all the extra lives I had when I was tired of playing.
The settings can be adjusted to make the game harder. I worked at an ice cream shop that had one and every couple months the level got turned up which made my skill even better as I got used to the new speed. Went to college in another state and there was a game room downtown. Went in, played one time on a machine that was set on an easy level, demolished the high score and won a t-shirt at the end of the month.
Almost 40 years later and I still love this game. Thanks Eugene!
Do you know where I can download this game FOR ANDROID THANK YOU
The sounds. The movement. Stuff coming from every direction! Man, this game was insane! And I loved every minute!!! I love I got to experience all of the 80's. It was such a fun time!
Parzival's favourite arcade game :p
One of his eternals favorite
I started reading the book a few minutes ago, and that's why I'm here now!
@@jakemccloskey7786 Me to 🥰😀😉 And now... Family Ties... 😉
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I knew the guy that helped write / create this game.. he and his wife had a table top game in the dining room.. it was a blast to go and play at their house!
I wrote a version of this game in basic on the spectrum in 1982...
wtf are you talking about
robotron is mind-bogglingly awesome, especially for the hardware it ran on.
It was always, " if you could make it to the edges you had a fighting chance!"
The soundtrack of my life!
I used to play this game for hours at my local arcade in Houston back when the game was new. I dropped in many a quarters, BUT, I do remember one afternoon with friends, I popped in one quarter and got something like 9 million points before my hands gave out. Man, those were good times, and that game is still one of the fastest games, along with Sinistar and Defender!
Amazing audio. Kudos to sound engineers back in the day.
It was amazing how I remembered exactly what every sound meant when I heard it again.
These sounds are like listening to your favorite old school jam, it takes you back. Like a temporary time machine, a "blast" from the past... literally! 💪🏼😆👍🏼💥🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
Your looking at someone here folks that has played a million quarters worth of ROBOTRON!!!
I still think this is one of the best video games ever made. The gameplay holds up very well to this day.
I literally could've played this game forever on one quarter. I turned it over twice and each time earned more men than I lost. I had hundreds of men built up before I finally had to quit when the arcade closed. I think I played for more than 8 hours.
I love those Williams game sounds. Joust, Stargate, this...they were all just awesome
best sounding game ever
Ready Player One (Book) brought me here
Same lol
same here!
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Robotron is the best video game ever made. No other game remains as exciting and challenging and fun to play after so many years have passed. This era of videogame design will likely never come again. Game designers of today don't have a tiny fraction of the genius of Eugene Jarvis. This game was and remains absolutely incredible to play.
My coworkers and I used to play this all the time at Screamin, Willies in Columbus, Ohio. What a blast!
Top 3 video games of all time right there. It was a blast to play back in the arcade days.
I LOVE SO MUCH WAS GOING ON!!! And, some of the BEST sounds of any arcade game of the time to me!!!! Only Sinistar comes in 2nd in my book.
Robotron and Defender were my all time favorites. Countless quarters in the day...
both of these games are currently in my dining room, lol
Yessss!!! Those two games were the best!! I didn’t have much money so I had to get good and those two games I could spend hours on just a few quarters. I miss those teen years dearly.
Just came here to see what the heck Phil Spencer was talking about. Looks like Berserk Hyper Fighting Edition
AWESOME....just hearing the sounds of this game is cool.....oh the memories
Thanks for showing the game. You have .25 seconds to assess the field then go. Its like looking at a pool table after the break. I turned this game over 1 million in a couple hours and walked away because my friend was bored. Didnt realize my hands were cramped to the joysticks. Had at least 10 lives left.
Absolutely legendary, incredible game!
Just got Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits for the PS1. It has this game. I popped this son of a bitch into my PS3 and choose this game. And holy shit! This is the most balls to the wall arcade game I have ever played. It's so easy to die in this game. There is so much shit going on on the screen that you are likely to walk into something that kills you if you don't watch where you are going. This game will make you a beast. I love this game.
I just loved how you were able to run and shoot in any direction.
The speed and sounds were addicting.
I also loved the blue brain guys.
So much fun. Good memories.
😊
Oh man this brings me back to summer of '84 maybe'85 playing at a hotel in Falmouth Ma. That was down the street from my family's cottage. They only had one game but it was enough!! I miss those days, being 14 or 15 years old. So few real problems in life back then. Hey Joe A. If you see this "hello brother" miss you too
That's some 1980's OCD, ADHD medicine all for a quarter. I remember throwing on the Sony walkman and spending some quarters on Asteroids...Defender...Robotron and many more ;)
Fall of 1982
7,700,000
2.5 hours
Still the best arcade game ever!
This game was my jam in the 80’s. I could take one quarter and play all day, or at least until my mom finished grocery shopping and I had to leave.
Old School favorite.
Used to play Smash TV. Years later, discover that Smash and Robotron share the same creator. Both amazing games. Pure and simple non-stop action.
Not the first game, but one of the first Arcade games I played and I was only a baby.
I just miss those good old days.
Same here. But in the late 90's when i was still a toddler.
This is awesome. I can't tell you how many quarters I sunk into this game, at the arcades, when I was a skinny, pimple faced, nerd back in the 80's. But it was alot of fun & challenging as hell. The sound f/x were great too (even if they borrowed them from their sister game - "Defender"). Would luv to play this one again sometime.
Once a gamer always a gamer!! Before Playstation,Nintendo and every game system out there we all went to our favorite arcade,local store,pizza parlor and try to beat the high score!! Memories!!! :)
Nice game play... brought back ton's of memories playing at Sinbad's in Ypsilanti Michigan in the early eighties.... This and tempest were my favorites...
To me this is one of the top 5 classic video games of all time. Forget graphics -- it's all about hand-eye coordination and reflexes. The games of the early 80's were the absolute best.
Those sounds... takes you right back.
Awesome.. brings back memories... shades of Defender
How quick and fluent this game/effects are programmed on this 1Mhz cpu in 1982 is awesome!
Next to to Defender, (also a great Williams game) this game had the hardest gameplay ever for a 80's arcade machine. Great job!
Quite simply the BEST sound effects I've ever heard in my life. Not to mention the HIGH SCORE sounds. Completely obnoxious, and simply needed. haha
Wow! Just remembered where a good chunk of mi income went when I was in my early teens. So great to see & hear again!
Surely Luke Vibert must have sampled this..? 10/10 all-time classic arcade game, still mindbendingly good now in 2020.
This game got my adrenaline flowing back in 6th grade. Now boys play this on my old Playstation from '98. It's so addicting
Ridiculously hard game! Williams seems to be the masters of making really hard but good games. They also did the really hard but amazing Defender, Defender Stargate & Sinistar also.
The thrum of the arcade was always amazing and Robotron 2084 was one of the games that always drew you in. In the era of boring Cold War politics and social disaffection these games and the music of the time offered a real escape from the humdrum of the world as a teenager in the early 80’s. Great era and memories!
For someone who has a heart condition, it is the most dangerous game ever invented. Highest level of adrenaline you will ever feel in a video game - especially when you're good and play the difficult waves beyond 30.
1 of my favorite video games from the 80s good times 👍👊✌👌
The first game with two 8-way joysticks. Your moving and shooting directions were totally independent. If you could split your brain just right you'd enter a zenlike state of consciousness and go on forever.
My childhood 😭😭😭
The great grandfather of Dubsteps before it was cool.
Mate. That you? You’ve got reflexes off the charts 😳
That classic arcade sound....
Just realised the amazing sounds are like an Autechre track!
I agree! We have a game cabinet here at work, that is essentially a MAME situation. The controls are laid out for Street Fighter - which means it has two joysticks! I have been playing Robotron my entire life - and still play it 5 days a week, daily. Intrigue and excitement all the way!
For everyone who's missing this and fast paced arcade games in general, i highly recommend to give Nex Machina a try.
Nex Machine is an INCREDIBLE game, and it's fantastic that Eugene Jarvis was a consultant in its creation!
I could watch that all day.. oh,.. i just did. Thanks for that.
I love the sound when he grabs the humans. I use to play for hours on 1 quarter. And I love the sound when you get a extra man. Lol! And I love the sound when the screen changes to the next level.
Robotron was my favorite game by far. I could play through hundreds of waves, as could 2 friends. We had epic battles.
Once while I was playing the game at a pizzeria, I noticed there was water on the floor where I was standing, but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from because you can't pause the game, and it's too intense at higher waves to take your eyes off the screen. The water was getting worse, to the point where my running shoes were soakers. When I eventually lost my last man, I was standing in a puddle of water. WTF??
Turns out it was _my own sweat._ I was sweating so much it was pouring down my legs into my shoes as well as onto the floor. That's never happened to me before or since.
That's how intense this game can get at higher waves. The grunt waves become solid masses that don't seem to shrink as you shoot them constantly while they chase you around the screen for what seems like minutes.
Such charming sound effects!
Played this game everytime my Mom checked out in PQ at Alpha Beta. Kicked my butt everytime. DK Jr was next to it, but Robotron always got my quarter.
This game i was very good at, turned the game over 3x regularly at Lost Dutchman Arcade in Monrova, CA back in the day.
Finally an example of someone playing this game and not using a cheat!
Was one of my favorite games back in the day.
When I was in my teens, there was a Robotron 2084 at a Gino's near me, used to play the game every day during the summer. Got too good at it and turned it over 200 + screens and it started over again to screen 1 (score was probably 20 mil +). Must have played it for 10 hours straight on one quarter. I didn't go back to play it until weeks later and the machine was gone. Never again would I be totally sucked up into one arcade game, it was that good!. They don't make games like that any more
My high score playing Robotron was something like 4.5 million. I knew a kid that could beat the machine though. He could play it until the system overheated and went pink screen. That took about 4 hours, or so in the summer. I think the highest he ever scored before a machine crapped out was 16.5 million.
Paul Frederick Gosh, that's insane. I think my highest core was about 1.5 million and even then it was so intense my eyes were ready to melt. Lol.
zakalwe101
Once a certain level of understanding was achieved it was just a matter of doing what needed to be done to play. Plus the game had internal difficulty settings. Lower was easier to play.
+Paul Frederick Wow, seriously? I'd never heard of a kill screen linked to actual hardware failure before.
+Paul Frederick It did not overheat. Back in the day I beat the machine. Don't remember the score but at level 256 is when it quits and goes pink screen because there are no more levels. That's all the memory 256k those had then. On Galaga when I beat it at level 256 it would say Level 0 and no enemies would come out. Just you flying through space shooting nothing. You had to turn of the toggle switch on the top or back of the game to reset it. PacMan on that level would go half screen viewable. I enjoyed pissing off the arcade owners/workers who had no clue what I done to their games and thought I hit it or banged it.
SparkynAZ
Robotron wrapped around back to level 1. You'd maintain your score, and free men, and just be playing level 1 again.
as the short hairs on the back of my neck stand up, this has triggered a flood of childhood memories. good times. Game On!
Back in my youth I used to play this game a lot. My last ever game was from when the arcade opened until it closed. 10p for about 13 hours of play. The arcade asked me not to play it any more.
That gameover sound at 5:56 onwards is one of the most nerve racking noises ever. Especially at the 6:05 mark.
Best game ever. My friend turned the score over to zero after we played it a few days a week for about a month. I lost and he kept going. You get to a point where you have enough extra men that even the hard levels can't kill you off. It took him about 3 hours. A week later we both turned it over and we were there all damned night.
this game was my favorite! I can only imagine how many quarters i pumped into that machine!
Same here!
You mean how many quarters it sucked from your pocket.
This was/is, sooooo addictive, with the sound and the visuals, I could only leave the game when I was forced to go, either for running out of money or needed to get home.😆💥💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🚫🏡🚶
I think I might have to make this soundtrack my phone's ringtone. Love it.
I've always loved the sound of getting an extra life and dying at the same time.
Oh god the sound effects make it sound so stressful to play
This game is one of my faves, good job.
Este juego me encanta! recuerdo estar horas largas jugandolo!!!
This was always one of my favorite games-played this one hundreds of times...Need to get a copy...when you absorb the human it is nourishing-like drinking water-Glug Glug Glug...
Played this a bunch on Midway Arcade Treasures on GameCube over the years. I’ve made it up to either wave 14 or 15 and boy is it crazy
This game and Defender both had awesome sound effects
Nicely played. It's stressful just watching!!
Classic.. this was a fun but challenging game
I love the creepy nuclear-bomb attack sounds it makes when you place first on the high score table.
Wow, great play. I just started playing robotron for the first time in 20 years and I had forgot just how difficult this game is (as a lot of the classics are, especially Williams classics)
I remember this in an arcade sometime 20 years ago. This and tempest was the only one I would play since it only cost $.25 per credit the rest of the newer games at the time were like a $1.00 so the practical choice was to play the older games since they were cheaper. I wish I can do it all over again.
I reigned supreme as the All-time best Robotron player at Castle Park Miami, FL during 1983 till 1985 (16 years old till 18 years old, born in 1967) when I was done riding the go carts or on a date with a girl or if me and my crew had the occasional break dance battles, we were just a dance gang no elaborate jackets or anything like that, I would walk over to the Robotron machine and literally spend over an hour on 1 token, my record was close to 30 million when I just had to leave with a row of free men that took up the whole top of the screen with I don't know how many beyond that, this game was hard at 1st but when your eyes adjusted to everything on screen you could really rack the points on fast, I got really good at it over the summer of either 82 or 83, we would spend our entire summer vacation from school at the beach, the hotel we rented back then was The Caravan motel which was a short walk from Marco Polo Hotel on Collins Ave (a better known hotel), The Caravan had a small game room next to the entrance, it had Joust, Defender and Robotron, however the directional Joystick on the Upright unit would go bad after a few months from all the tugging and pushing, it got to a point that people who knew who I was would intentionally block me as long as they could I would hear them whispering to the person playing hey say that I'm next because when this guy takes over the machine was gone for the night. Good Times, Good Times, this game gives you excellent hand eye coordination in no time flat
Back in the day I knew a guy who did change for an arcade and we could literally play this game all night on one play between us taking turns!
the better you do, the more claustrophobic it gets... BEST sound design (back then) ... the double joystick 360(clockstyle) movement/firing was 1`of a kind !
This really was just the most awesome game. The video was either put together just as a demo or the guy playing it wasn't very good - I recall my highest score (4 hours in) back sometime around 1985 was about 26,000,000 with dozens of extra lives stored. The secret was to stay away from the walls once the various bullets started getting fired around by the various 'bots. Running in one direction whilst shooting in another was key to being good at this game. Eugene Jarvis (the game's designer and who came up with the two joysticks idea) must have been either really wired or severely demented. I don't care which, either way he was possibly the 'grandfather' of all modern 'shoot-'em-up' video games. I'd like to thank him for his contribution to gaming and to my mis-spent youth!!
Good Game dude!!! That was my favorite game ever it was such a workout. I went to level 42 once, I swear. Thanks for posting this it's awesome.
That my friend is what we used to call some roasting.....rock on
I remember playing this one at the bowling alley couldn`t stop me when i was a kid.
Aww... the loot I dropped on Robotron back in the day! And the BLISTERS on my fingers from playing this bad boy!! Nothing beat the sight of my initials at the top of the leaderboard! Thanks for posting this. Sure wish I could find somewhere/somehow to play now.