MAME World Record: Robotron [Solid Blue Label] TGTS 813,500 

This was my all-time favorite video game in the early '80's in Norfolk, VA at Flipper McCoy's game room. I turned a quarter into hours of mesmerizing fun. I would go home after a session (sweating profusely!) and practically hallucinate from the visual and auditory overload. I had high score on Robotron 2084 forever. I sucked at the likes of Defender, Missile Command, Joust, and others. I killed at this one, though! Thanks for sharing!

Wow, just wow. Some brilliant playing that is a joy to watch. That rescue of Mikey on wave 12, just pure heroism. Amazing reflexes, and real-time strategic planning, and tactical decision making and risk management. I've never seen such disciplined playing. Many people could reach 10 million on Robotron, but getting to wave 10 without losing a single man is a small miracle unfolding for all to see. Thank God for RU-vid to be able to see superhuman talent like this.

God I love the analog tones of this game .. nevermind the gameplay itself

The greatest pure arcade shooter ever made .

Thank you for uploading your play. I’ve never forgotten this game from 35 years ago and watching you get to the levels I never saw was a great ride. I tried to understand your strategy but gave up and just appreciated your mastery.

I was really good at this in my youth. Literally turned it over in the scoring, setting it back to 0. On a recent trip to San Francisco found an old video game warehouse at Fisherman's Wharf. Put my quarter in and game was over at the brain level.

This and Defender my favorite childhood games. You sir are an insane player.

Best game ever

I used to play this game so much,and got so good that I would draw a crowd when I played. I would often trip the score back to zero.

The 8X8 shooting/firing offering makes this game an absolute classic. The problem was finding a machine that actually allowed you to access all 64 combinations. Williams games were never my real strong-suit, but for this game I had a respectable skill level.

It looked, sounded and played fantastically well! And it still holds up great today, which is incredible. I was enjoying it on PS2 recently until the CD drive broke! Incredible playing here, making the impossible look easy.

Just started playing Robotron 2084, and this game is by far my favorite

I kind of learnt a new method watching this guy.

This is a amazing. This is the sound track of my youth -- the tech sounds of arcades blaring their action in symphony.

MAD skillz Yo! Robotron 2084 is such a MASTERPIECE! & Eugene Jarvis F'n GENIUS!

I have my own Robotron machine in my living room. Best I've done is a little over 1.1 million on level 10 difficulty. I can play forever on the easiest settings.

Congratulations! Love it! One of my favs from way back.

My fav arcade game of all-time, totally out there in on its own in terms from non-stop gameplay, Eugene Jarvis who designed it is a genius imo. This is off the scale, thanks!

Call of duty my arse! Robotron is STILL the reigning champion game for "most shots fired per second." And that's what it's all about. Live long. Prosper. Blow shit up! Bravo on a game well played ;-)

I remember this in arcades as a kid and the audio alone was amazing.

The great thing about the game Robotron is that no matter how good you think you are at it....there is always someone better. THAT is what makes it the best arcade game ever made.

Only 80's kids remember .

nicely done OWNED

Guys - this is John McAllister ('redelf1968' here on RU-vid) playing. He's a well known CAG player who has also taken down the classic 80's arcade Marathon records on Asteroids and Joust. He also has the Robotron 5-man arcade WR (1.250M) - it's here on YT. The default difficulty (5) plays faster/harder on MAME, that's why this score is so much lower than the arcade one.

I've seen good players but this guy is on another level 😳

now this is some hardcore electronic music

Love this game, always have. Nice Game John. awhile back we talked about the glitch and i had no clue what you were talking about being it was 30 years ago, but i have been reading up on it and i just got my Mame up and running one week in i had it happen, so i know exactly what you were talking about. i thought it was fixed on Mame guess not. i did miss this game so. again great score.

This person is really good! Didn’t even die the first time until Wave 10 and very impressive saving all those family members to rack up extra points.

@inlovewithmarie This is on tournament settings.. no free men awarded and it's set at super high internal difficulty. The factory settings world record is around 300m+. The internal settings are listed in the video description

Your playing reminds me of the marines. LEAVE NO HOSTAGE BEHIND! You make your family (in the game) proud! :-)

Not bad!!! You left some good points on the table in wave 20 though.

This is INSANE! YOU'RE GOOD! BEYOND GOOD!

Epic gameplay!!!

I was rootin' for ya, buddy!!!

Dude you are insane. LOL Nice game.

unbelievable game play !

Hi. Thanks for your reply. Watching this vid again, I can see some brilliant playing and precision on the part of this player. I'm mightily impressed, but if I practice I stand a chance. Maybe one game in 100 would come close.

I still play it today on a MAME format. Best arcade game ever!

The guy I met in NYCity had a very interesting style, he would sit and fight it out in one spot,(always safely off the walls, of course), move a little distance, do the same, until he had cleared enough to finish the whole wave (except for the tank waves, of course)...On that sticky movement control machine (level 10), I'm guessing, because I was used to playing on a level 10 machine at UC Berkeley when I visited NY that time, he averaged clearing a wave to a wave and a half without dying, is what I remember...

Well played...

Its hard to find a Robotron nowadays that plays great. People have different joysticks on some of them and it's impossible to get a million points because of that

No joke....IMPRESSIVE

THE BEST GAME THEN AND NOW! 👀😳💪🏽✅ I USED TO PLAY THIS FOR HOURS IN THE ARCADE GAME ROOM. IT LITERALLY KEPT YOUR HEART RACING AND IMPROVED YOUR REACTION TIMING. I WAS AFRAID MY WEAK HEART WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE EVEN WATCHING THIS GAMEPLAY UNFOLD AS MY EYEBALLS TRIED TO FOLLOW EVERY MOVE AS IF I WAS CONTROLLING THE JOY STICK! LEVEL 25 WAS ONE OF MANY OUTSTANDING MOVES TO CLEAR THE BOARD! 😳😱😍💪🏽🤓😅✅👀

Best i've ever seen played....good job! .i use to play this game for hours on end back in the early 80's ..plated it again today after 30 years and made it up to 350K

this game is freaking relentless.

This guy is incredible!!!

Holy shit this game was HARD!!! Whoever is playing is a master!

The sounds alone are intoxicating ..

Sorry dude, I didn't realize you were playing level 5, the machine the guy in NYCity was playing was most likely a level 10, which was also the level the machine I got 3,000,000 on at 25,000 an extra man...This was all in the 1980s, so please forgive my mistakes...Still, very impressive!

i remember playing this when i was a kid good old times...

Record your game play and submit to Twingalaxies or MAME Action Replay. I don't authenticate records, I merely pull from these two sources as they are the most frugal when it comes to score verification for the MAME platform

Any idea if there is a robotron 2084 knockoff for the ipad?

wow tgts this was with no extra men allowed awesome

I´ve the same settings but it doesnn´t move as fast. Is this because the recording?

I learned that when you play this game, you get the strategy. But this game doesn't have a certain original sound. That's when the game ends.

Wonder what he used as the controls for the game

I got frustrated using the keyboard; my fingers kept criss-crossing. With the correct controls however, I can't see it being much worse. I rarely saw the cross-screen bullet-speed shots from the enforcers, which I get almost constantly on the cabinet emulated version at work. Those shots are so brilliantly fast, they are almost instantaneous - you can't even move to avoid them. This game is still my fav of all time :p

You Be The MacDaddy Of Robotron.

Im sure there is someone better out there somewhere. Usually the case. Also worth nothing, Robotron is MUCH harder in MAME then it is in the arcade due to the way it's emulated as well.

How did you get to the game adjustment menu????

Got this on the old arcade greatest hits snes n64 to much fun

Hey how did you get to "Game adjustments" menu at the start?

Best game ever, tempting to spend two grand to have my own.

I bet this dude rules at Geometry Wars.

Has it been mentioned before that the tanks ball projectiles disappear quickly than say the Xbox 360 downlaoded version?Those tanks are hard to kill due to the scramble in avoiding the projectiles.

Played this game in 1984 for 8 hours at a bowling alley Washington State. Had over 8 million points and finally gave it to a kid that was watching me.

what version of mame is this?

joust..another awesome Williams game.

This is my fave vid game ever! I thought Ii was good but you are the shit!

Geez, and I thought I was good at this!

where are the outlines on level 9

here are some facts about the real arcade version that i played back in the eighties:2 times i played until i scored over 10,000,000(ten million).it took me roughly 3 hours to do it both times(not in the same day mind you).after wave 500 the wave counter and waves went back to wave 1.and the score counter went back to zero after 9,999,990.and if you people want to talk about difficult,i played a robotron in georgetown ky that you could only move n,s,e,and w.no diagonal directions.

NO EXTRA MEN!!!!

How about the spoof of this, Llamatron, please?

wish i could play this online somehow was one of my fav arcade games

Awesome game play. Miss this game.

Where did this start? Me at the mall in front of a missile command console, trading bubble yum for quarters.

Dude !! You're a beast ! a hell of a lot better than I am on it. >_< I can't get past level 5. I'll tell ya one thing though.. If You want a serious challenge !! Play the Spectrum version.. it cheats like hell !

solid blue label on MAME crashes on me randomly before 3million, but yellow/orange label works fine

Damn.

I double checked the game settings. Its NOT level 10 difficulty. Its level 5, which is still no joke, but more reasonable.

Nice fucking skillz

Playing a game like that requires both loads of skill and a bit of luck. Nice job! I have done a little better with 5 men difficulty 5. 943,000 points (Mame). I remember playing over and over and over until I started to hate doing so. It became work and torture so I stopped doing it because I love the game so much and just wanted to have fun. I have several other personal records. 511,000 give or take on my first man. I was as nervous as shit realizing that I may make it to the Mikey wave. Rolling the machine 10,000,000 points while I moved with my left hand while my friend fired with his right hand. Rolling the score even though the stupid machine wouldn’t fire down, diagonal down left or right. That was interesting. 1,417,000 with 12 men difficulty 8. That was something memorable. Rolling the machine on difficulty 10, 30,000 per free man. That was pretty torturous. Bringing to the world the 9 wave special. Too much fun. I still play today but my reflexes aren’t what they used to be. I claim they cheat, but the truth of the matter is, I am getting old.🥺

I was the local Ms. Pacman champ.

NZ Auckland 1985 the best game ever I was up there with the best, also not long after this I started smoking weed then my gaming skill reflexes turned to shit.

Elven magic- indeed... And damn- wave 19- that wasn't your fault... motorola's lack of CPU processing power + satan on that one fo sho... I bet you negate that enforcer shot- on the real hardware. Thanks for sharing with us... well done!

i have the real arcade game of this. you dont have to put a quater in it works evrytime along with joust and rampage! i will never sell it!

I need this soundboard

Where are the extra men? At what scores do you achieve those?

If its level 10 difficulty and no free men, you are right ... thats quite a score. But I'd like to try sometime ... how does one register and authenticate with MAME World Records to prove the truthfulness of any game with MAME so that if this record is beaten, it will be recognized as such. And how long would it have taken to get 300 million on Robotron. As I recall it takes about 4 hours to get 10 million and roll the machine, Are you saying someone played for SIX DAYS?

I could play Defender and Stargate, but never did learn Robotron. I think it was because at certain level, the high attrition rate, no matter your skill. Plus this was insanely difficult.

Navy seal of robotron

"the game starts at wave 25, anything before that, is warm up" and your playthrough video upload is where?

best game evah....

Brutal treatment off the Enforcers(police bots, whatever). ty made my day !played this as a kid.

@MrEvangates i remember i was a god for getting to wave 15 or 16 and maybe 350k. i even got a trophy. this spanks it big time.lol

I agree I have broken 1.5 million dozens of times, My high score is a little over 1.75 million wave 56. Myself I like to smoke a fat bowl, crank Diary of a madman, and kick this games butt.

I can only make it to wave 5 ;)

if this is mame i dont see how you can be so accurate with your movements talk about hard i just started playing this game but man is it addicting allthough I think I would like to play with joysticks

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