History VideoGame / Robotron2084

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-->-- [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] [[http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/24/interview-trent-reznor/ on his favorite video games.]]

* EndlessGame: The original arcade game, like most arcade games of its era, had no win condition. You play wave after wave until you run out of lives.

Scattered around the playfield are slow-moving "humanoids" to rescue, clones of the last human family consisting of Mommy, Daddy and Mikey. Touching each of these clones before they are killed by Hulks or Brains earns the player 1,000 to 5,000 points, progressively in steps of 1.000, which resets to 1.000 points if the player dies or the "wave" changes. [[EndlessGame The game is not winnable]] so death is an eventual certainty, but an extra life is earned [[EveryTenThousandPoints every 25,000 points]], making rescuing humanoids an important objective. This is especially true in levels featuring Brains, which can grab onto the humanoids and mutate them into super-fast death machines.

** Both the hero and Grunts die upon stepping on a mine.
** With the exception of Brains and Tanks, the Humans are immunte to damage from all enemies and their projectiles.
* TheDeterminator: Most enemies, especially the Grunts.

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%%* FaceMonsterTurn: Progs.

%%* {{Mooks}}: Grunts, mostly

%%* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters

%%* ZergRush

Scattered around the playfield are slow-moving "humanoids" to rescue, clones of the last human family consisting of Mommy, Daddy and Mikey. Touching each of these clones before they are killed by Hulks or Brains earns the player 1000 to 5000 points, progressively in steps of 1000, which resets to 1000 points if the player dies or the "wave" changes. [[EndlessGame The game is not winnable]] so death is an eventual certainty, but an extra life is earned [[EveryTenThousandPoints every 25000 points]], making rescuing humanoids an important objective. This is especially true in levels featuring Brains, which can grab onto the humanoids and mutate them into super-fast death machines.

This has a SpiritualSuccessor in ''VideoGame/SmashTV'', not to mention being the precursor to the move/aim controls in {{First Person Shooter}}s and Flash games. The game also received a sequel called ''VideoGame/{{Blaster}}'', but it doesn't play anything like the original.

--> [[AC:Inspired by his never ending quest for progress, in 2084 Man perfects the Robotrons: a [[MechanicalEvolution robot species]] so advanced that Man is inferior to his own creation.]]
--> [[AC:Guided by their infallible logic, the Robotrons conclude:]]
--> [[AC:'''[[KillAllHumans The human race is inefficient, and therefore must be destroyed.]]''']]

%%* EveryTenThousandPoints

* InvincibleMinorMinion: The Hulks, who can only be shoved back with blasts.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The plot to ''Blaster'' in a nutshell, with the protagonist swiping a Space Shutter to fly to "Paradise" after the Robotrons kill the entire human race.

* DownerEnding: According to ''Blaster'', the last human family will inevitably be killed off.

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This has a SpiritualSuccessor in ''VideoGame/SmashTV'', not to mention being the precursor to the move/aim controls in {{First Person Shooter}}s and Flash games.

* DownerEnding: According to Blaster (the game's sequel), the last human family will inevitably be killed off.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: the Hulks, who can only be shoved back with blasts.

Scattered around the playfield are slow-moving "humanoids" to rescue, clones of the last human family consisting of Mommy, Daddy and Mikey. Touching each of these clones before they are killed by Hulks or Brains earns the player 1000 to 5000 points, progressively in steps of 1000, which resets to 1000 points if the player dies or the "wave" changes. [[EndlessGame The game is not winnable]] so death is an eventual certainty, but an extra life is earned [[EveryTenThousandPoints every 25000 points]], making rescuing humanoids an important objective. This is especially true in levels featuring a certain enemy, which can grab onto the humanoids and mutate them into super-fast death machines.

Each level, or "wave", of ''Robotron'' consists of a small humanoid mutant ("the last hope of mankind"), representing the player, in the center of a swarm of enemy robots. The player uses the two joysticks to simultaneously move away from the enemies and dodge their shots with one, while firing back at them in the direction of the other. Once all the destructible enemies are eliminated, the player progresses to the next wave, facing increasingly faster and more numerous enemies. Like ''{{Tempest}}'', it mixes brutal, high-speed gameplay and psychedelic graphics.