Robotron: 2084

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Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

In wave five, the first brain wave, a mistake in the brains' algorithm can help you gain a vast amount of points. There is one Mikey with lots of Mommies - however, the mistake in the algorithm causes the brains to seek out Mikey rather than the Mommies. Therefore, if you can keep the brains from getting to Mikey without picking him up yourself (at least until you rescue all the Mommies), you stand to gain a huge amount of points -- up to 5,000 points for each Mommy.

During the tank wave, try to avoid shooting the tanks' shots for as long as you can. If the tanks fire 20 shots that do not hit anything, the tanks will cease firing.

There is an easter egg hidden in the game with the game's credits. To exploit this easter egg, you must execute the following commands during gameplay:

1. Move the move joystick right and the fire joystick up and press the one player start button.
2. Move the move joystick up and the fire joystick down and press the two player start button.
3. Move the move joystick down and the fire joystick up.

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Game Introduction

Game Play

• Grunts (100 points) do not shoot but they will attack in large numbers.
• Brains (500 points) can fire Cruise Missles (25 points) at you and turn humans into Progs (100 points).
• Spheroids (1000 points) can create Enforcers (150 points) which fire guided mines (25 points) at you.
• Quarks(1000 points) will create Tanks (200 points) that will try to run over you or fire Bounce Bombs (25 points) at you.
• Hulks are indestructible and will kill humans as they approach. Your blaster will only halt them as long as you are shooting them.
• Obstacles such as Electrodes in your path can be removed by firing at them with your blaster.
• Humans are worth an increasing point value. The first human scores 1000 points, the second is worth 2000 points and so on until the point value reaches 5000. The point value will remain at 5000 for all the remaining humans in the same wave. When the wave is completed or you have been killed, the points awarded for saving another human will be reset to 1000.

During each wave, you must destroy all the Robotrons (with the exception of the indestructible Hulks) and rescue as many human family members as possible in order to proceed to the next wave. When you complete wave 255 it will appear as if you just started the game! wave 1 starts it all over. Your score will be unaffected.

Miscellaneous

VAPS Arcade Census

Very Common - There are 286 known instances of Robotron: 2084 owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 255 of them are original dedicated machines, 12 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 19 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,113 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 89 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 31 VAPS members currently looking for Robotron: 2084.

For Sale - There are 14 VAPS members with Robotron: 2084 machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

Yellow/Orange:

• The default difficulty is 5.
• The demo calls the Quarks 'Cubeoids'.
• The default high score is 131682.

Blue:

• The default difficulty is 3.
• The default high score is 151782.
• The 'shot-in-the-corner' bug is fixed.

Trivia

The unique dual-joystick control was created because of two occurences: Jarvis liked the game Berzerk, but hated the joystick-and-button run-and-shoot configuration; and the fact that Jarvis's right hand had been broken in a car accident shortly after he finished creating Stargate.

The human characters in this game are named Mommy, Daddy and Mikey. The idea and the inspiration for the character Mikey was from the 1970's commercial for "Life" cereal.

Fixes

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Manuals

1. Instruction Manual  11 Pages, 868 KB File.
2. Drawing Set  32 Pages, 2571 KB File.
3. Instruction Manual  11 Pages, 96 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

1. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 121; Color photo;