History of Video Games (RE: "Bally Astrocade")

From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_crl.com>
Date: Tue Jul 15 20:56:00 1997

At 08:49 AM 7/14/97 BST, you wrote:
>> (But I always was, and always will be, a Robotron man...)

>Do you mean the East German Robotron Elektronik, or is this another
 
Robotron 2084 was a video game (put out by Williams, I think). The story
was that robots had taken over and were killing off mankind. You were man's
last hope as a super-ized human, you could shoot the robots and save the
people. You ran around doing just that. There were various types of
naughty robots and a family (mom, dad, son, daughter) that you ran over
(picked up?) to save.

What made Robotron different from most games was that it used 2 joysticks,
one for movement and one for firing. To be any good at the game, you had to
be able to work them independently of each other. Spent a lot of quarters
on that game.

There were other 2-joystick games, including Sinistar (mine bombs to blow up
Sinistar before it's completely built) and a spiderweb game which I forget
the name of.

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