Robotron 2084

Atari 5200 · 1984 · US

Also known as: Robotron - 2084 · Robotron : 2084 (US)

Publisher: Atari · Developer: Vid Kidz · Genre: Action

This is a port of the arcade game of the same name. You are a mutant human, who by some freak of nature has the ability to shoot energy pulses from his body in eight different directions! Your job is simple: save humanity from their own creation -- the ROBOTRONS! The gameplay is pretty unique for the time. You can move and fire in any of eight directions. You get thrown in a room with various evil baddies strewn about, you've got to kill all the robots while at the same time finding some way to grab humans and avoid death.