Classic Game Room HD - ROBOTRON 2084 Atari 7800 review

[Adnoil]

I think I got to level 74-75 on this once. Great game!

[chadheck96]

Back when Arcades were more powerful than the average computer and gaming consoles.

[JudgeCheerio]

That looks heeeeeella fun!

[GamerNinjaX]

my uncle has something awesome. A FREAKING ARCADE MACHINE, it has robotron 2084 on it and other awesome arcade games like joust and stuff like that. and it acts also as a TV. to play some atari and nintendo. AWESOME. my uncle is a serious collector of old things.

[axgrata]

I used to have this game!! But I lost it. I hate that I lost this game because I still have a working Atari 7800 and a bunch of games. Meh.

[PhoenixRisen7]

looks really impressive for 7800!

[prophismusic]

WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[estlib]

the bleeps and bloops of atari will always be remembered. shame on you atari for making a mess of urself!

[southport97]

MAME version is identical to arcade version. I had the dedicated machine for 3 years and sold it recently.

[deadlygroove1]

@southport97 The MAME version is the arcade version. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator so all the games you play in MAME are the original arcade games on your PC. Anyway, this game looks nice on the 7800.

[redeyeduck]

I remember getting this for Christmas 1986 with my 7800 along with Defender, Galaga, and Pole Position and playing every one of them on my dads old 13 inch with rabbit ears and adapter that had the little fork prong thingies. :D

[roninhall1970]

there was a Atari 5200 cart as well.

[roninhall1970]

there is a Ateri 5200 cart as well

[tfypt]

i had the 7800 and robotron i used a 2600 trackball to move and a third party 2600 joystick to fire(the 7800 was backward compatible)

[MrDavidtron7]

@tfypt thats a good idea , o use a colecovision trakball

[JohnnyElsewhereTV]

I think this was a well done review. I agree in the sense that if you're jumping into the Robotron game for the first time, you should go towards the Nintendo 64 version. This version seems a little more forgiving in that sense; you don't have a crazy camera angle and textured floors to distract you.

Realy well done! Faved, my friend!

[nviso209]

IT'S ALOT BETTER THAN ROBOTRON ON THE APPLE II!! OH YEAH! :)

[bazfanv2]

A time when games were played for fun and the only achievement you cared about was being number 1 in the Hall of Fame.

[Emceetem]

Dude give this guy some serious respect.

You guys aren't gamers, you guys aren't shit, most of us 90s kids grew up on mario this dude was already a classic gamer by the day mario came out!

Screw you guys, let's give him the respect he derserves.

[MrDavidtron7]

to play robotron i would use 2 atari 2600 controllers

[MrSaturn33]

Those Above the Influence ads make me want to do drugs.

[Kuthulahoo]

@MrSaturn33 I know theyre so depressing

[Yoshii49]

this beats ostrich ass

[Jaccoby123456]

my mom used to play this game, she could go to the arcade with 1 quarter and play this game for hours and hours

[antdude]

LOL at the ending.

[Luigi84289]

Doesn't look much different from atari 5200 games.

[69thPredator]

i have this game on my sega. love it! though, when i was younger, i thought that the robots were zombies. lol

[hpitogordo]

This game sounds like madness!

[vovadi4]

@hpitogordo madness??? THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!

[tfypt]

i had this system and game 2600 controllers worked with this system so i used a trackball to move and a wico joystick (remember them?)to fire

[nviso209]

Brings the APPLE II version to it's KNEES! The sound and graphics on that one were HORRIBLE!!!! This one was very close to the arcade at least by a/v standards,

[jupreindeer]

When I think classic Atari, I SURE don't think of a screen full of sprites in mass motion. Damn aewsome!!!

[OneEyedJack1970]

@jupreindeer The 7800 had a very powerful (for the time) sprite engine.  It had better graphics than the 8-bit computer systems.

[jupreindeer]

@OneEyedJack1970 When I think of the number of similar games and look that the 7800 had to the C-64, I tend to think that this was the Commodore gaming console port that was brought into America. Which, if that was the case, truly was a smart move for Atari. Alas, Nintendo/Sega will forever retain a spot in history, leaving Atari the trophy winner for first home wave.

[OneEyedJack1970]

@jupreindeer Actually, I think it was the result of a lawsuit Atari brought against some game company. The graphics chip was part of the settlement, if I recall correctly.

[aaallleeexxx62]

does anybody know if the brain wave glitch works on this version?

[SegaVsNin]

One of my favorite games of all time. (Arcade version).

I've never played the 7800 version.

[disimpresssed]

ok so i own a game called berserk for the 2600 and i saw all the 3d robotron games when thy came out in the late 90's i was just wondering if anyone knew if it's made by the same developer?

[BillyCauseyjr]

@disimpresssed nope, teh guy who made Robotron is also the guy who made Defender and Smash T.V. though.

[RetroGamerDaz]

The Lynx conversion is pretty impressive. There's also an amazing Spectrum version that was never released as well. One of my favourite games :)

[gamesDAMNED]

The big plus to playing this game on MESS is that you can play with an Xbox360 pad, and use both analog sticks. I can't imagine trying to play with two of those clunky 7800 controllers. Yuck! Atari Corp really was clueless.

[p6mkq]

I played it on emulator :D

Wonderful game :D

Die,robots =)

[dogeymon83]

HOLD UP!! I'm gonna have to play this with two controllers??????????

.........how is that possible??? I don't understand.

[doppelheathen]

I think you'd have to place them against your body or on a flat surface and put them together somehow...though I don't actually have any 7800 stuff, so I couldn't tell you.

[AoFparson]

the 7800 controller has a thumbstick and istn so big that u can hold it with one hand aslong u just need the thumbstick for the conrols. look it up in his review about the controller and u will see that its possible but still undcomfortable in my opinion. never liked the controller

[wwefan6742]

the Atari 5200 strangely enough is my favorite platform of this game

[classicgamer1968]

A little closer to the arcade than the Atari  5200/8-bit but awesome to play too!

[retroman51]

Robotron is a good game. I admit on next-gen consles, It would run at like 5 frames/second if not 10. So many enemies. Works good in wii7800 if you want to use that emulator. Wii7800 also has dual analog as an option so you can play this game with one controller!

[bigtarget9]

My dad recently found a working 7800 and i played that games for like 10 hours straight i love robotron

[falloutcool]

All your videos are great

[schetleft]

i use a sega genesis arcade stick, and an atari 2600 pointmaster that u did a review on

it works better than the USA 7800 proline crap

[schetleft]

i taped them 2 a cereal box so they wuldnt move

[DeltaPhi79]

I remember this game in Midway Arcade Classic pack (or whatever it is). It was my FAV in it.

[killerkombat428]

2084 is tha most addicting game

[Akantrex]

oh, Fuck, I still have that game^^ it´s soooo fuckin hard... I love it :D 5S^^

[Tryzon]

Robotron 2084 on the Atari 7800....so many numbers!

[Akantrex]

lol^^ :)

[harleykman]

I had this on my 7800, but never really liked it.

The game was simply too hard for me, and too chaotic. I preferred games like Berzerk or Defender that were more sedate.

[frigginjoe]

It looks and moves real nice. I'm looking for this for the 7800.

[dougd1015]

Wow, that's a really great translation!

I got to play Joust and Robotron2084 in an arcade just recently.

And Mark was right!

Both games are great!

[morgangamer22]

cool

[roadtoadie3]

where can i get a new n64 and robotron 64?

[RaineMan213]

Just hop in my DeLorean, Marty! When this baby hits 88mph, you're gonna see some serious shit.

...Then we'll get you Robotron...

[dougd1015]

Ebay, Play N Trade, or Frank and sons.

[TooSlowGamer]

LOL

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[PlaidLaiden]

Holy EFF! Wave 55! Damn!

[VoidKeeper]

omg, this is even older than smash TV :D

[Link4587452]

I wish they made a dual arcade joystick controller.

[harleykman]

When you bought the game new, it came with a plastic gadget that held both controllers, and then you could jiggle both sticks at the same time.

[Videogamehistorian00]

your thinking of the 5200 version, the 7800 version was going to have a similar device, but it never came through

[Link4587452]

How did it play with that controller?

[Videogamehistorian00]

you needed two controllers. One controlls where you move and the other controls where you shoot. Just like the arcade.

[BlackCloudBoss]

you shoot in the direction where you move

[AmgGamer9408]

ya but look when he moves a certain direction the bullets are going in different directions

[Videogamehistorian00]

it has the option of doing that on the 7800 version if you don't want to use the other controller

[jaa93997]

can you imagine a war console between the atari 7800 and the mattel intellivision? how bizarre would that be

[Link4587452]

7800 competed with NES and SMS.

[maiki60fps]

looks good... 2 controllers control is absolutely essential to play Robotron and Smash TV - I am not sure about Atari sticks, but on Sega Mega Drive arcade perfect covnerion using pads it is perfect....

[atm94404]

The two-stick conrol scheme doesn't make sense until you realize this was probably a port of the 5200 version. Some 5200 games included a nifty little holder that the joysticks clamped into. It nicely replicated the arcade dual-stick setup. It worked very well (particularly in the game Space Dungeon). They probably intended to make a similar holder for the 7800 sticks, but Jack Tramiel cheaped out like he did with everything related to the 7800 release.

[gamein60seconds]

This version was scratch from the ground up, the 5200 version was ported to the 8-bit machines, and that was relased with a joystick coupler for the old CX-40 sticks. This set up would work on the 7800 too as the sticks were compatible

[ScrewAttackEurope]

I must admit that I never played Robotron until it was released on Live Arcade in 2005, but I always remember magazines boasting that Smash TV was the sequel to Robotron.

Can't really see the resembelence myself, bar they're both made by midway and both use dual sticks.

[tr1umph]

Eugene Jarvis designed both games.

[ScrewAttackEurope]

I know but would you consider it a sequel though?

[ForgivedMe]

nice review

[boomstick545]

this is an awesome game