Just played this today for the first time. I'd played the first robocop arcade game many times as a kid, but never knew this one existed. It plays really well, and it looks awesome visually. You can't beat those early 90s arcade graphics. What a treat.
Robocop's friend: First, Michael gets his four teeth pulled out and his 12 cavities cleaned, and now he gets a left red eye, otherwise known as conjunctivitis. Robocop: Patience, my friend. We're only human!
*Robocop's friend:* you kill SO many people in this game! you know i had to kill bob morton because he made a mistake, now it's time to erase that mistake!! *Robocop:* i told them, dead OR alive, they were coming with me... ** they didn't come quietly so there was...trouble! LIKE# 519
A movie based video game made by people who actually watched the movie? Robocain was amazing and the failed Robocop 2 models in the background of stage were a cool addition.
I played this at Tivoli, Copenhagen back in the day and almost completed it with few credits. Now its confirmed that I ran out of money at the very end(got to the final final step where they fall from the roof). Still pisses me off
there are many concepts and designs here that are not in the movie but i really like, some of the mechanic enemies are kinda creepy, i would like to see them on a movie Also robocop fighting deformed toxic mutant people seems a bit out of place but i love it, give me a ton of enemies like Emil in robocop 1 when he fell into the toxic waste
LOL Not to long ago I played this arcade game on an emulator and this game I thought was great in 1991 but it feels primitive compared to even any PS2 shooter.
I actually had this arcade machine when I was younger. Someone got rid of it and I took it into the house. It wouldn't fit up the stairs though and my parents wouldn't let me keep it in the living room. Had to sell the damn thing for a piddly price :( I shall endure the pain while I must. This is... what being human is all about.
+George Massey I bet now, in your adult years, if you want to have a Robocop arcade in your living room, you're going to damn well have a Robocop arcade in your living room! Unless of course you're married, in which case don't even dream about it!
@@alpachino468 A Blast city in the living room with a girlfriend is really possible. After,maybe a wife is a possessed girlfriend. I hope to own an arcade room with few dedicated cabinets and a Blast city,Vewlix ..with it and real pcb,a pc hyperspin,pc steam..and share it with my future children. Old retro 80,90s stuff are more and more hype since 00s..and probably more with the crisis.
13:37 OCD EXEC: So, Whats the new prototype like? ENGINEER: Well, we just made a mono-legged cannon on a set of skis. OCD EXEC: I LOVE IT! Throw some missile launchers on it and call it a day.
thanks for sharing this! I actually used to own an electrocoin arcade cabinet with this game! We had to sell it as we didn't have enough room to keep it. Ill never forget my dads face when I came home from the arcades, and had actually bought one! Have tried to locate the cabinet but the guy my dad sold it to passed away. Brings back some great memories!
An arcade-only sequel to the 1988 original, placing less of an emphasis on platform action than the face game and concentrating almost exclusively on the shooting aspect.
Did this game or Dick Tracy for the Genesis/MD come first? Because that shooting enemies in the background feature was something I noticed first in Dick Tracy.
Maybe this is a way-too-late answer, but none of those two games - both of which were really good, by the way, aside from the originality bit - invented the wheel at all. Go check Data East's arcade game Shootout (1985), Mastertronic's Kane for the C64 (1986), Domark's 007 The Living Daylights for several home computers (1987), Tad Corporation's arcade Cabal (1988), Taito's arcade Rambo 3 (1989) or SNK's NAM-1975 (1990), for the most notorious examples of previous video games that used the same visual presentation and general game mechanics. All of them pre-date Sega's Dick Tracy and Data East's Robocop 2 (both of which were published in 1991) and I would go as far as saying that Dick Tracy, in particular, feels almost like a conscious revamp/ripoff of the most notable forefather of this particular subgenre of arcade shooters, the aptly named Shootout that I listed first.
Best RoboCop game on consoles. And there's some nice throwbacks to the first RoboCop movie. Bad guys on early levels with the can Clarence's gang had near the end for example. And one level pretty much being set in the steel mill
Well, almost. That's the magic of Assembled Sprites. Most of Cain's limbs are overlaid separately (shown during the last phase, he loses his arms as the fight goes on), only his legs are mirrored. As for Robocop himself, he's less complex having the upper part and legs and 2 separate sprites, which again legs are also mirrored, though there are few occasions where upper part is mirrored too, like when Robocop is shooting backwards.
The fact that there are 2 concurrent Robocops- one silver, one blue- seems like a slight nod to the films. In the first film, he was silver. In the second, he was blue. Cool detail!
He wasn't blue in the 2nd movie man, a quick google search proves that. He was silver in all his movies he just had more of a metallic shine in the 2nd, but it's far from "blue".
9:18 - Data East is trying to pull a Sega on us, and use The Toxic Avenger in their game, similar to how in the Shinobi games so many movie villains appear!
THE OFFICIAL TBONE2004 It does look just like Toxie, though I think they were trying to go for the cronie bad guy in the first movie after he drives the truck full of toxic sludge that explodes.
THE OFFICIAL TBONE2004 That boss and the mutant zombies would go on to be reused in Data East's 1993 horror-themed beat-'em-up Night Slashers. The boss gets turned into Frankenstein's monster but uses the exact same moves, and the mutant zombies are redesigned to be undead zombies.
7:03 - 7:16 Dat catchy tempo music thou, ik MAME haves a bug with this game, when too many sounds is played at once, the tempo will increase until they stop
Pretty fun game but repetitive. IT'S FUN THOUGH. 1st is my fav. Blood would have made this game superior. I like the arcade smashing part. I was not allowed to watch robocop 2 as a kid lmfao but I had part 1 on vhs. It bothers me super nintendo, genesis or ps1 did not release every coin op. X-men, AVP, simpsons, etc. This too.
This is what we should of got on snes and Sega Genesis, faithful ports of the first two arcade RoboCop games instead of shitty ones with the exception of RoboCop vs Terminator.
Did everyone hear that the true sequel to robocop is being made!? Yes the original writers of robocop actually finished the script a few months after the first film was released this is not what we know as robocop 2 which was written and directed by a different team.
