National Game Registry 1982: Robotron 2084

ROBOTRON 2084
original platform
arcade
developer/publisher
Vid Kidz/Williams
key personnel
Eugene Jarvis
Larry Demar

Robotron is a friendly robot forced to live in a time, 2084, when most robots want nothing more than to murder each and every human in sight.  Fortunately, Robotron is armed to the metal teeth, ready and willing to destroy belligerent automatons.  Robotron 2084 consists of a series of single-screen fields viewed from a top-down perspective, filled with evil roots and a few humans waiting to be rescued.  The humans are hilariously dressed in business attire and carry briefcases, easily identifiable in spite of the primitive graphics.  Story-wise, Robotron is a sequel to Defender, although the games bear little resemblance in design.

Robotron 2084 was inducted on April 22nd, 2009.

Return to the National Game Registry to view more inductees.

Advertisement