Robot City - Part 15 - Ending

At long last, some answers. Dr. Avery explains everything: his intent behind Robot City, its ultimate fate, and who you really are.

The one disappointment in this playthrough is that I never got to the explanation for the Key to Perihelion. It's the device found in the L-shaped tile minigame a few videos back. Essentially, the Key is a high-tech teleporter that Dr. Avery intended for Robot City to use to travel between planets and expand their civilization. Katherine came to Robot City with Dr. Poole to retrieve the device. Although it works properly, only Katherine had the batteries to run it.

Except for that big story oversight, I consider this a pretty successful playthrough! I hope everyone watching/reading enjoyed it. Too bad Byron Preiss went out of business.

Robot City has multiple endings depending on whether or not you stay and if you destroy the city or not. I might put together a quick clip of these alternate endings at a later time.

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Robot City is a 1995 adventure game by Byron Preiss Multimedia and Brooklyn Multimedia. Stranded on a distant and self-sufficient robot-run planet, an amnesiac identified as "Derec" must prove his innocence in murder mystery that invokes Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. With help from Alpha, a robotic sidekick capable of deductive reasoning, the players must assemble clues, gather evidence, and use Asimov's laws to manipulate the city's positronic inhabitants. Limited exploration windows provide brief chances to explore new parts of the planet through mine shafts and a massive subway system.

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[kugotsumin]

You didn't show the robots playing poker! Or the conversation with Creon after it becomes known he was responsible for poole's murder... or the wacky robot who has gone nuts (i think you find him around where s42 is, i'm not sure but ithink he witnessed the murder)

[Obscuritory]

@kugotsumin Never ran across the poker-playing guys. As for the insane robot... I came across him once in a playthrough, but since so much of Robot City is dictated by luck, I just didn't run into him this time around. :( That's the toughest part of recording this game.

[spiderwebs7215]

I love the music to this game...anyone have the mp3's?

[kugotsumin]

@Obscuritory I'd tell you where to find the poker-playing guys but I just can't get this game to play on my win7 x64 system. how did you get it to play? i assume you are using a 32 bit version of windows.

[Thecool90sguy]

you should post the other endings

[spiderwebs7215]

Wow Katherine's kind of a bitch once you meet her...lol

[Greenturtlmonstr]

Wow, it's been a long time coming... Like others, I wasn't able to finish the game, but remained curious for years. It's great to finally know! Although I have to admit, after seeing a small picture of the killer robot on the back of the CD-ROM box, I always thought it would have a much larger role in the game. Hahah, what a confrontation, though. Too bad games like this aren't made any longer!

[samisreynolds]

So thats how the game ends. I lost my copy years ago, but now I know! Thanks!

[evangelism2]

good job, I felt involved. So it was good to see the end.