Inside the Arcade - Robotron: 2084 (1982)
Save the Human Race!
Nowadays as the human race edges closer and closer to the moment when Skynet becomes operational, I look back at the year 1982. It was when I was told, that in 100 years or so, we would all be knee-deep in a massive war against robots and machines that had violently turned on us. And I think to myself, 2084, yeah that seems about right.
It’s a shame I won’t be around when this s*%t goes down. I was pretty good at this game, even though it was designed to eventually destroy you. In Robotron: 2084, there was no escaping death by robot. There was only prolonging life and saving as many men, women, and children as you could in the hopes of racking up a high enough score to be able to tell your friends, “I’m a better robot killer than you are.”
You’d start the game in the center of the screen. You were a genetically modified human that had the ability to shoot lasers in eight different directions. The lasers would fire out in a steady stream, like a never-ending Gatling gun. On paper, your abilities might have seemed a bit too powerful. That is until you came to know what you were up against.
