The History of Robocop arcade documentary 

We had an Robocop arcade machine in college. It’s one of those games where you can memorize your way to a 1cc. I haven’t played in 35 years, but watching this video I still remember all the little details - where you need to stand, when to jump, etc. Crazy how our brains work.

I once met Kurtwood Smith, while cosplaying as Robocop

Dead or alive, you're coming with me creep! Thanks for another awesome episode of classic 80's goodness Patman, thanks for all you do brother. 😎👍

I was such a fan of the original arcade and still play from time to time. I played the game even before watching the movie, and the new game is just perfect as a continuation of the franchise.

This was the only coin-op (apart from Xain'd Sleena) that I could 1CC, although I didn't know what difficulty it was set to. The key was to get the shooting gallery right because it would extend your life bar if you got a perfect score, which was essential in the later stages. Another trick was to try and punch as many enemies as possible whenever you had the Cobra cannon so you had at least one shot left when facing the boss, which was enough to destroy it as soon as it appeared, and would save you a lot of energy.

I remember playing this game at the Circle K. I also lived in Houston when they were shooting Robocop 2. I still got some old home video of it somewhere.

I saw this post in my notifications and instantly packed a bowl. Your videos are the best to watch while high!

Patman, I could not agree with you more. When I saw the 2014 remake of Robo Cop, I wanted the 2 hours of my life back.

Please like this video - you have 20 seconds to comply. Another awesome docu Patman. Love all your videos . Thankyou.

I'm a proud owner of 2 Robocop Arcade PCB's... One of my favorite games. All sequels after the first one are garbage.. Home ports never a fan off only the arcade version. There a NES rom hack that does the arcade version justice. Otherwise another fine mini doc.

@ :33 I haven't seen that old Rece's Peanutbutter Cup commercial in years. Thanks, PatMan for making me feel older than the 48 years that I am.

Great vid, I still think ED - 209 is still nightmare fuel lol

Saves it to watch later after I’m done work. Thanks buddy. Liked

Brilliant video!. I'm really enjoying your 'History of' Documentaries. They bring back some great memories and I've learned some cool stuff! Thank you 😁

Oh man am I a huge Robocop fan. The first time I watched Robocop I was 9 years old. This was in 1988 and my dad had it on VHS. He let me watch a ton of cool movies but Robocop was one he was pretty adamant about me not watched it...for some reason. At the time it was the single most violent film I had ever watched and I loved it! From that point forward I was a fan for life. The first time I saw the Robocop arcade cab I was blown away. It had incredible graphics, pitch perfect clear voices, and tons of Robocop inspired violence. I wanted so badly for it to release for the Sega Genesis in 1989 as it really fit Sega's image. Thank you for covering this. I can only assume this was done as a homage to the new game that recently released. Addendum- Have you had the opportunity to play Robocop: Rogue City yet? It is incredible and needs to be experienced by all Robocop fans. I myself just finished it not 5 minutes ago on my Xbox Series X and WOW! The graphics are insane, the sound sublime, the voice acting was perfect, and the gameplay is delectable. It is so good that it should be seen as the true sequel to Robocop 2. I cannot say enough good things about it...10 out of 10 and too Hell with whoever doesn't like it.

Anne Lewis is sadly not voiced by Nancy Allen in RoboCop: Rouge City, she's voiced by Kosha Engler. Even though it would have been awesome hearing Nancy reprise voice Lewis again, Kosha actually did a pretty great job sounding like her.

another awesome documentary. thank you dude, always interesting and pleasing to watch.

Awesome video , as always . I am playing through the new game on my PS5 right now and loving it !!!! It actually made me go back to Robocop 1 , 2 and 3 on my NES . I plan on putting the arcade roms on my iiRcade cabinet this weekend 😊 .

this was a great arcade game. another great video Patman! thank you!

great time for this to come out. the new recent video game of Robocop is very good and has good reviews.

I remember buying the NES Robocop game used from the local video store for $15, and I got a ton of value for my money. It was so well done, and I was actually able to beat it without the usual trauma that comes with most NES games.

Loved this game !!! I’m glad I got it on my raspberry pi and finally finished it without spending enough to fund an entire army. Great video as always

One of my favourites!!! Thank you very much!

I love this channel so freaking much!

Just found your channel and really like it. I love the retro arcadegames as well as retro games in general. Those Data East Robo games are really kick ass. The first one is incredibly hard lol. I have Retroarch so i am able to enjoy both games at my leisure with MAME, which is a blessing for a retro head like myself. I am 40 years old and am glad i got to see the golden era of Arcades in my life. CHeers man. Subbed to channel.

My day got better now there is a new video and i thank you sir!

Another awesome vid Pat! I hope to one day play those awesome versions on the arcade! 💪🙌🔥

Always wanted to play the cabinet. Never saw it in the wild. But rented the first nes game a few times

Perfect as always!

Another great work ! 👍🤗

DROP IT!!! Great doc Pat

Superb! Made my day!

I've got Patman fever. I'm going outta my mind. Awesome content, as always. You are the man PatmanQC.

Wow another awesome video !

27:07 Now THAT is some dope ass game music!!! Jeez, I'm all over the place im these comments, huh lol

Great memories of the arcade game and I never even knew there were SNES and GEN versions. Another great Data East arcade game released a year before RoboCop--Heavy Barrel--shares a few sound effects and the jetpack enemies with RoboCop. Thanks for this!

I was waiting for this video, I just had a feeling you'd make a video about Robocop soon, because of the new game. The Commodore 64 version is my favorite simply because of the music. Just listen to that beautiful title theme! It fills me with an indescribable emotion. Easily my favorite chiptune of all time. I wish it was in the new game as an Easter egg somewhere.

Amazing video. Love the og robocop arcade game. Nothing came close other than the robocop vs terminator game. Still waiting on patches before I buy rogue city on ps5

The C64 music was terrific.

I know you are loving that new robocop game patman!

Even the 80s synth tunes are great! Fab times and video 👍👍👍

Nice video with some good obscure trivia. I had no idea there was a Gameboy Color game or a fanmade remake

Fun! Alex Murphy is my favorite cop ever!

Very great interesting documentary 👍👍

So they used the flamer from Heavy Barrel in place of the Cobra Assault Cannon for the first game. They used several sound fx from Heavy Barrel.

That gameboy music is awesome, I think it stemmed from the Ocean loader SID tunes, they're well worth a listen if you like the GB track.

Isn’t this a school day? I still can’t believe that Rocky’s trainer Mickey is the “I’d buy that for a dollar!” guy.

Oh my god! STREETHAWK!!! ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE THEMES OF MY 80S!

The new game is superb , it's about time Robertcop gets same respectful treatment

Thanks for the great review. I too was a fan of the original Robocop movie and arcade game. There was one at a 7-Eleven that I completed when I was in High School and one at the student center during college. I never played the NES version of Robocop but I did have Robocop Vs Terminator for Genesis. That was an cool game and played it a lot (along with the Mortal Kombat games). Too bad they never released the Gameboy advanced version, it looks really good and it would be popular on Switch. I asked for the new Robocop game Rogue City for Christmas, it looks good. We’ll see what happens.

Great timing what with the new game just being released. I loved the game so much i had my bartop arcade made to look like a mini version with side art and marquee art from the original game. The new game is fantastic with many nods to the movies like getting an achievement for shooting a perp in the jewels

Also to note that the Japanese version of Robocop 2 arcade game had a rehashed scene of the first game and/or movie's climax at the start of the game which was fully playable but was cut for the US release.

The P.A.T. 209

Great documentary although I may challenge you on whether the Ariston commercial music came from the Gameboy or the 128k Spectrum first😊

Great story of the Robocop games, thanks! The 1st arcade one is my favorite. I played the new Robocop Rogue City, very good! Robot Monster was recently released on blu ray 3D too regarding your reference to it. Thanks Patman! Robocop seems more reasonable than Dredd. I'm surprised there was no Robocop 2014 video game. Thanks.

First time i played the Robocop arcade game, I thought nothing would look better than tha.

46:14 The implication here is that a chicken actually owns the restaurant...and also serves fried chicken. That's quite a lot to take in. But, so long as the chicken is good, I'd buy that for a dollar.

New Patman?! Yay!!!!! I enjoy all of your videos, Sir! Like and comment, already subscribed!

Scary how little we knew back then that Detroit in real life, is now exactly what the game said that it was in 1990........Overtaken by crime. Like a scary prediction

Robocop 2 is one of the best arcade games I have ever played

Played Robocop in the arcade.every weekend while my family was doing the weekly shopping in the early 90s. It was one of those games that I thought it would come to the 16 bit consoles at the time but it never did sadly. Hurt hard when the Arcade was replaced with another arcade game and I haven't played it since then which is over 30 years ago.

One of my all time favorite arcades! Cheers! 🇬🇹👏

I was 7 or 8 when I saw this movie. I had parents that let me watch Terminator, Predator, etc and I was totally fine with those movies. Robocop scared the crap out of me and it still gives me the willies to this day... and I'm now 42 HAHA!

“Besides who wants to play as Lewis?” Those who know about Robocop 3: 😢

I love the original arcade game!

Just to note on memory the sound track to the Amstrad version was also used on a commercial by a company called Ariston,,, and on,, and on,, and Ariston.

17:34 When Robert Cop looks way better than official toys. 14:54. 29:17 and PC!

Nice one patman 👍

Thanks Pat man!

Love the game. Restoring a robocop cabinet currently. Fun memories of playing the nes version as a kid

Robocop fried chicken has forever changed my life.

The original Robocop game is still awesome

If I remember correctly, the reason why they did that punching at the start of the arcade game is because Robocop is a police officer. So they wanted to show he was being provoked to using his gun. And not just start the game blasting everyone. There was a arcade of this game at a seaside town where we use to go vacation. There was a teenager there that could finish the game with just one quarter. Always amazed me and I usually watched him do an entire run.

16:23 "look to him fry the chicken!" 16:25 "look at him! ding dong sh** f***!"

I've mastered this game almost to the end....I have to watch speedruns to see how they can manage thru the last few levels. Still one of my favorite games.

A laser rifle? That's the Cobra Assault Cannon that the bad guys used at the end of the movie. I've never understood why the games are uneven at using Weller's voice for the sound samples. The arcade game has his voice for all the samples in the game itself, but someone else reading the prime directives at the start. The Spectrum version has clips of Weller reciting the prime directives, but not his voice in the game. The Amiga version doesn't use his voice at all. Speaking of the Amiga version, I liked it at the time, even though some of the levels didn't follow the arcade version that well. At one point, I had all the enemy placements memorized and could complete the game without cheating. I could usually get 100% in the shooting range.

It's funny the original arcade game has enemies on motorcycles and enemies with jetpacks. The second Robocop movie would feature a scene in which Robocop battled punks on motorcycles and the third film had him (not an enemy) using a jetpack. Intentional or not, they accurately predicted things that would be in the sequels.

I still cant quite 1cc the arcade game but it doesn't keep me from trying. Ya gotta 100% the target shooting bonus rounds to get the life meter extension. That, and skillful preservation of the cobra gun for bosses. Its a shame nothing else quite lived up to the quality of it.

Thank you for reminding us of how Robocop saved Sting, and of Robocop's love of Japanese Chicken. If the new Unreal 5-powered Rogue City game by Teyon _doesn't_ have a bonus stage where you burst into a Japanese home to eat their chicken, well, I'll be _very disappointed_ to put it lightly. 😆😆😆

I played the RoboCop arcade game for the first time at a grocery store of all places. When stores had a few tucked by the entrance. The 80s.

I remember spending many days as a young kid struggling to beat robocop 2 nes. And once I did, I went on to do it over again and again

It's great to hear someone give the Game Boy version some love. When I first played it I was amazed at how superior it was to the NES version.

I remember the arcade version you had some crazy glitchs with the cobra cannon to get some beefy scores.

There was another Robocop animated series in the late 1990's.

I wouldn’t say the 2014 film is awful. It’s just not anything like the original. It’s actually a good start for someone who hasn’t seen the original cause it shows you how corporate greed creates inferior or infuriating releases. Similar to the original concept of OCP creating the inferior ED 209 that just doesn’t work. It’s a good metaphor. Great video as always Pat

"I can feel them, but I can't remember them."

I do need the reminders to "like" the videos.. every now and then I check to make sure I have.

That bootleg is of robocop from the first movie but called Robert cop 2 for some reason. And also has his blue armor form the 2nd movie on the box art. I want that toy

@PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries You should take shots whenever Robocop says "DROP IT." Also, Robocop 3 has a Ninja.

Speaking of weird cross-overs: That first Japanese commercial of RoboCop eating chicken wings had music from Back to the Future 3 in the background. WTF.

Robo cop 3 on SNES haunts my dreams to this day! It was so Ducking hard!!! 😠

The arcade version was really good. Robocop felt "weighty", even when jumping. Sadly I only played the C64 version back then. Forget the glitched stage, getting stuck on stairs and dying to enemies just walking into you, made me want to throw my joystick out the window!

I loved these games. I have the original arcade PCB, Nes, C64, sequels, even the bad ones I enjoyed 😂 except the one on the original xbox

46:05 I beat the Game Boy version, the hardest part was that face matching part. The screen is so small and there is no colour, they all look the same and they only give you like 15 seconds.

Awesome review thank you pac man qc

I love the game boy and the music and the awesome gameplay it puts a smile to my face 😊♥️ 50:31 51:34

"if I got shot in the head I would go down in 3 or 4 shots" lmao alright Patman 👍 Good video though.

I seem to remember, the Amiga was done by one guy, the whole thing, Music, Gfx, Sound, and programming, so its the Programmers voice you can hear, I cant believe your level of research, no one ever talks about the ParkProductions versions of Robo, I found them years ago, when trying to learn Blitz Basic maybe Dark Basic, as Im pretty sure they were developed in Blitz or Dark basic, and you even did the Ariston ad, and I always thought the no gun, in the start of the arcade was due to the first part of the movie with the convenience store, where robo only punches the guy, also, in the arcade he doesnt draw the gun, until the thugs do.

When the original RoboCop first came out on vhs i remember going to numerous video rental shops with my dad to try and find it cause they were all gone.

Some of these ports make Robocop look like the guys from Daft Punk 🤣