Description
Robocop Amiga
RoboCop is a beat ’em up/run-and-gun action game developed and published by Data East for arcades in 1988, based on the 1987 film of the same name. It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage. Data East and Ocean Software subsequently adapted the arcade game for home computers.
The game was a critical and commercial success. The arcade game was the highest-grossing arcade game of 1988 in Hong Kong, and reached number-two on Japan’s monthly Game Machine arcade charts. On home computers, the game sold over 1 million copies worldwide, and it was especially successful in the United Kingdom where it was the best-selling home computer game of the 1980s.
Robocop Amiga
The gameplay is similar to Data East’s arcade game Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja, released earlier the same year. Robocop includes elements from both beat ’em up and run and gun games.
In 1988, Ocean adapted Data East’s Robocop arcade game for 8-bit home computers, converting much of the arcade game while also adding original content to make it different to the arcade original. This version was produced for the Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, TRS-80 Color Computer 3, Amstrad CPC, and DOS, meaning that home computers ended up with two different versions of Robocop for North American and European audiences.
Robocop Amiga
Ports for the Apple II, Amiga, and Atari ST; ports for DOS, NES, and TRS-80 Color Computer 3 followed in 1989. The Apple II and IBM PC ports were developed by Quicksilver Software, while the Amiga and Atari ST versions were developed directly by Ocean. The NES version was developed by Sakata SAS Co, and Ocean developed and published a version for the Game Boy in 1990. A port of the game for the Atari Jaguar was planned but never released.
Data East published the game in North America.
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