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Welcome to Game of the Week! Each week there will be a new featured game on this page. The game may be good, average or diabolically bad, it really doesn't matter! Just look at the pics, read the text and enjoy the nostalgia! :-) Game of the Week! is open to contributions so if you would like to contribute a game article for this page you're more than welcome to! Every article we receive will be considered!
Cybotron
1983 Anirog Software
Programmed by Darrell Etherington
 
Most text of the present article comes from the feature on arcade conversions by Julian Rignall, as published in the third issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64 (July 1985)
 

 

CYBOTRON
Anirog, £7.95 cass, one or two joysticks

This superb clone of Robotron 2084 has all the features and excitement of the Williams original.

You are the Cybotron, a mutant human in the not-too-distant future. Robots have taken over the earth and are hunting down the last remains of the human race. It's up to you to save them all, while blasting the robots to kingdom come.

When you start you are presented with a screen filled with robots, your Cybotron, and two humans wandering about. Pick up the humans by running over them and blast the robots, while avoiding the obstacles littered around the screen.

You control the game using either one or two joysticks. Two gives true arcade feel -- one is used for movement and the other to direct your laser stream. Using one joystick will make the Cybotron fire in the direction he's moving.

The graphics are almost identical to, but slightly larger than the original. The high score table is excellent, with the facility of storing 100 top scorers just like the original. The sound, too, is similar to its bigger brother, with the right sort of blasting and zapping noises.

There're 100 waves to challenge your reflexes and dexterity to the outmost, and even by wave 10 the going starts to get very hefty!

-----Rignall ratings-----
Graphics 81%
Sound 69%
Arcade Feel 92%
Accuracy 86%

JR highscore: 243,000

 

 

Htmlized by Dimitris Kiminas (2 Dec 2001)

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