Looking for a c64 game about robots

[eds1275]

I just had a flashback to a c64 game I used to love as a kid. It is about robots.  There is a lot of grey, maybe all the graphics were grey, and it was either a side-scroller or orthographic with a slight angle. It loaded right into the game I believe, so splash screen and let you choose your starting robot. I can't remember exactly what the point of the game was, possibly escaping from a maze of different rooms? There was a timer as well, and once the time was 0 it was game over.

I know it was NOT paradroid. Any ideas?

[blashyrk]

Short Circuit ? But it dosen't quite fit your description, as you can't choose a robot to play, theres a clock instead of a timer. But hey, it's worth a shot

[ark_ader]

Paradroid

[jdbailey1206]

My guess is Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory.  Or if I'm wrong then its Paradroid.   

[Rick]

OMG, Paradroid. That's a classic! I loved playing that as a kid. It's one of my favourite old-school games.

This thread is now about Paradroid.

[RoyalScam]

My first thought was Cholo. Although, it could also be Transformers or if your parents didn't love you, GoBots.  Did anyone mention Paradroid?

Scam

[jdbailey1206]

Did anyone mention Paradroid?

Not.  One.  Single.  Person.   

[Rick]

Not.  One.  Single.  Person.   

Then permit me to be the first.

PARADROID!!!!!!!!

[Vigo]

I gues a few different games here....


Heavy Metal Paradroid
paradroid competition edition


 


In seriousness, I believe you are thinking impossible mission or impossible mission 2.

[jdbailey1206]

I thought Impossible Mission also but there was no timer.

[ppv]

Took us a month to finally finish that game! Impossible Mission deserves its name! "Stay a while... Stay forever!"

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[ppv]

I thought Impossible Mission also but there was no timer.

Yes there was.
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[Rick]

Yes there was.

He's right. There was a countdown timer that would decrease after every death. The more you died, the closer you were to ... that laugh...

[Vigo]

I think you could only see the timer in the elevator.....its been too long. Both games were excellent.

[Rick]

I think you could only see the timer in the elevator.....its been too long. Both games were excellent.

I used to play it just to fall down the holes and have my 12 year old self laugh his ass off.

[Vigo]

I loved the 5 second scream. 

AaaaaAAAAaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA AAAaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[jdbailey1206]

I thought Impossible Mission also but there was no timer.

Yes there was.
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Must have missed it when I watched the youtube video.

[Rick]

I loved the 5 second scream. 

Both Impossible Mission and Beach Head (lol) were personal favs, for the oh-so-bad digitized voices.

[Vigo]

I thought Impossible Mission also but there was no timer.

Yes there was.
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Must have missed it when I watched the youtube video.

I was doubting impossible mission at first thought as well, but more because you don't play as a robot. But after thinking, It seems to fit the description pretty well. I think this one is a lot less mysterious than Cory's mystery computer.

I loved the 5 second scream. 

Both Impossible Mission and Beach Head (lol) were personal favs, for the oh-so-bad digitized voices.

Beachhead was awesome! It was my first bootleg game I ever bought.

[Rick]

Beachhead was awesome! It was my first bootleg game I ever bought.

I remember buying Airwolf from a kid at school, on 5 1/4" floppy (with a NOTCH!) for $5. For 12 year old me, it was a huge sum of money for a game I could have copied myself. It was, however, the first time I had ever seen the notch, and I went out that weekend and bought myself a disk notcher - and doubled my home collection.

In the 'games' section, I'd like to add HACKER and HACKER II to the list of awesome. (In the non-games section, French Postcards.)

[Vigo]

Haha, It has been so long since I heard talk about a disk notch! 

[knave]

...and I went out that weekend and bought myself a disk notcher...

LOL, I just used a scissors

[Vigo]

I think a perfect lined up hole punch will work as well. 

[adder]

paradroid redux looks like a decent version:

http://www.sid.fi/~tnt/c64/paradroid/redux.html

[RandyT]

I just had a flashback to a c64 game I used to love as a kid. It is about robots.  There is a lot of grey, maybe all the graphics were grey, and it was either a side-scroller or orthographic with a slight angle. It loaded right into the game I believe, so splash screen and let you choose your starting robot. I can't remember exactly what the point of the game was, possibly escaping from a maze of different rooms? There was a timer as well, and once the time was 0 it was game over.

I know it was NOT paradroid. Any ideas?

Not specifically robots, but one of the monsters is a robot, there's a timer and lots of grey.   It also starts up the way you described.

[EightBySix]

I remember reading that the Atari version was pulled because it actually was impossible to finish. Urban myth maybe.

[knave]

I think a perfect lined up hole punch will work as well. 

You are right it did...LOL I had a friend who did it that way...I was too OCD to have a "curved" notch...even though some of my DIY ones were pretty ugly.

Not a robot game...but I thought "Mail Order Monsters" was pretty freekin awesome. It even had multiplayer.

[eds1275]

It was totally paradroid 

None of these. You were a robot. I'm digging through lemon64's screenshots to see if I can find it. I was a huge fan of impossible mission, and beachhead. In beachhead you could wait until the demo mode was on the level you liked, then just move the joystick to start playing on that level. My personal favourite was Airborne Ranger, or if my brothers were around we'd play Racing Destruction Set.

[Vigo]

I hope you don't mean robobolt....



otherwise, was it Magnetron...sequel to paradroid?

[adder]

> My personal favourite was Airborne Ranger

me 2, loved that game, played it so much

[kixfan]

Impossible Mission was great.   A few years back they had a plug and play c64 with that game.

[Rick]

Was it H.E.R.O.?

[Bambam1963]

Paradroid - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradroid

[eds1275]

YOU WERE A ROBOT SHAPED ROBOT, NOT A PIXELATED CIRCLE WITHA NUMBER INSIDE

I did not stumble across it looking through lemon64, however I also didn't see Destroyer or TaiPan which I know are there. It'll come to me one day...

probably the reason I don't remember the title was because it was on a floppy with 10 other pirated games. Yahrrrr!

[JDFan]

Perhaps Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory 

Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory (1983) - Commodore 64 Classic Game
Goal of the game

Mr. Robot and His Robot FactoryAs Mr. Robot, you have to collect all power pills (which are stored in the floor) to proceed to the next level. The game has 22 levels of increasing difficulty. There is a time limit of 99 seconds for each level. When time runs out, you lose a life. You'll also lose lives when you run into a living fire, you fall too deep or off the screen or when you stand on a bomb when it explodes.
DosGamers.com thinks: Great platformer

Mr. Robot is a great platform game, it combines elements of other classics like Pac Man and Donkey Kong. On top of that it has all kinds of other exciting elements in it like trampolines, bombs, lifts, teleports and magnets. However, the motivation to finish all levels is taken away by the F3 key with which you can skip to the next level. What really makes the game interesting though is that you can create your own levels with the Robot Factory, which guarantees hours of fun, especially when you exchanges levels with your friends.

[adder]

hmm
one man and his droid
or
n.o.m.a.d

edit:  or  herobotix
or intensity
or erebus

[ark_ader]

Paradroid.

[Vigo]

Robot Rascals?




Short Circuit?

[Kier]

I think a perfect lined up hole punch will work as well. 

Yes it did. Made a single sided disk, double sided if memory serves correct.

[nipsmg]

I loved the 5 second scream. 

Both Impossible Mission and Beach Head (lol) were personal favs, for the oh-so-bad digitized voices.

The best digitized voice was the beginning of ghostbusters.....


GHOSTBUSTERS!!!! BWAH HAH AH HAHAHAHHAHH AH HA AH!!!!