A big appeal of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One was its reverence toward the pop culture of the 1980s, from movies to video games. As the big-screen Steven Spielberg adaptation inches ...

Robotron is a hallmark example - an unforgiving game permeated by an inexplicable addictiveness. There has to be a method to the Robotron madness. The basic game premise and controls are such that ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. The above five-minute run of the game’s first level and a ...

Eugene Jarvis took to the stage at GDC to talk about his 1982 Williams arcade hit Robotron 2084, a 2D shooting game noted for its insanely fast-moving action and chock-a-block busy screens.

Though video games have steadily become more and more ... Rampage, Marble Madness, Robotron: 2084, Smash TV, Joust 2, Bubbles, RoadBlasters, Stargate (called Defender II in this and most other ...

“When I started playing video games like Robotron, I had no idea there was an industry I could work in. Now it’s an industry that employs hundreds of thousands of people and has huge ...

and the game was a highly-addicting and attractive game for the new platform. I loved Robotron, so seeing the control scheme brought out for the flagship game on the Arcade was great. Then Mutant ...

Give a Gatling gun legs, and apparently you've got yourself a great video game. Gatling Gears treads familiar territory that may remind you of classics like Robotron and Ikari Warriors ...

Like the other classic arcade games on Xbox Live Arcade, Robotron: 2084 remains true to its arcade roots while including great additions like online scoreboards and multiplayer. If it's not the ...