Robotron 2084 Gameplay: 6,341,475 score, wave 236.

[@power2084]

"Yeah, I'll give up my Robotron. When they pry my cold, dead hands from the sticks" - Eugene Jarvis

[@ecernosoft3096]

This game has the MOST AMAZING sound ever. Even if it's one voice.

[@psterud]

Yeah, pretty interesting concept, how the next sound would cancel out the last. Creates a cacophony that's awesome in those cabinet speakers.

[@runnergo1398]

@@psterud With the BASS, too!

[@Colaris99]

Just pips Defender! :)

[@bmrigs]

Takes me back to 82' and my friend and I would go to the corner store on the way to middle school and I would watch him play it. Love this game.

[@deborahchesser7375]

Us too, my brother me and a friend would wear this out at Lawsons, once I had a broken right wrist so I controlled the left side and my bro the right we did pretty damn good as I remember, top 10 highs

[@MichaelRei99]

Sounds like me.

[@Brandon-gn7zn]

Love it to was not born in 82 I have the original cabnet for this game

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

Top 5 arcade games of all time. And very well played to boot.

[@power2084]

Top 1

[@psterud]

One of the greats from the era. Good game.

[@comicbookguy7583]

.. I was unkillable at Donkey Kong Jr. but my quarter didn't last long at Robotron.. I'd love to see kids play this game today.. thanks for the epileptic nostalgic sounds

[@bullionboys9176]

Typical Williams those sounds 😍

[@jkkay477]

A lot of the same ones from Defender. But GREAT sounds!

[@oriondx72]

This is a game you really need to be focused and in the zone. I can see playing this game for 30m to a hour to just get warmed up. Intense game!

[@aidanbarnes4290]

forget pc gaming THIS is the heart a soul of video games

[@ssarmazi]

My absolute favourite arcade game growing up. Thanks for taking me down memory lane!

[@mrluke8264]

very nice campaign I remember resetting to 99 back in college, never made 199, your brain starts to melt from the concentration best game ever made, blows PS7 away

[@ecernosoft3096]

lol

[@MichaelRei99]

@@ecernosoft3096 nothing funny about it.

[@unclequack5445]

This was my favorite game as a kid I thought I was a hot shot when I broke a million the first time this guy is great.

[@raidersacdc4892]

I think the highest level I ever made it to was 31. This game is fast & stuff comes at you in every direction. This guy is impressive

[@markandjoydellorusso7312]

man, I love this game. Have it in my game room. Not only could I never dream of hitting that kind of score, Ive only ever approached 100k. And I played this when it came out a ton. Massive quarter loss.

[@stephenblidgeon9551]

Have it in your game room 🤔I'd be playing it to death. 500k my best score, if I had this game, you'd get used to it and create a good technique to clear each screen. Practice makes perfect.

[@geonerd]

Well done!!! I was pretty good at a lot of these games; I could play Missile Command indefinitely. But I always had a hard time processing ALL the stuff that is going on in Robotron. Death can come from so many directions! But it was still a favorite. The many sound effects were a treat.

[@bokami3445]

Eugene Jarvis at his very best.

[@amagilly]

I prefer the calm and serenity of the prequel (2083), just before the robot uprising.

[@psterud]

Haha. When the last human family was just another human family.

[@MATTNMEMPHIS]

I played Robotron so much that I remember having a bad NO2 trip at the dentist when I was a kid. The sound effects were on a constant loop in my head.

[@tonymaurice4157]

Where can you get Cloak and Dagger for home use?

[@MATTNMEMPHIS]

@@tonymaurice4157 Check PS4 or Xbox stores in the console. I am pretty sure you can get it there. That being said, I can't find Defender in either of them.

[@tonymaurice4157]

@@MATTNMEMPHIS the fender should be easy to find. I found one at a garage sale. But if you wanted to find something on a console with other games yeah I'm not sure

[@jjstratford]

@@tonymaurice4157 played the hell out of that game. Still remember Dabney Coleman in the movie.

[@tonymaurice4157]

@@jjstratford let's go Brandon 👍

[@roxair1]

Impressive. Today, nearly nobody would accept this kind of difficulty level nor be able to focus and play an early 80ies arcade game with this dedication and skill.

[@robertwilson3866]

It needs 3D graphics and a character based story. And savepoints.

[@psterud]

@@robertwilson3866 And cutscenes and infinite lives.

[@SwashbuckleGames]

Had a coworker introduce me to this game on an arcade machine at our workplace. He's 30 years my senior, but we both have a blast with this game. My best score yet is 520,000 wave 22

[@psterud]

@@SwashbuckleGames Great score. Congrats.

[@bobgomez9481]

More impressive had it been done on an actual arcade machine.

[@ScottPetroski]

OMG, LOVE THIS! I can't remember the name of the gameroom at the corner of Kempwood and Campbell in Houston, but I was a regular back in the early 80s. I was ON FIRE one afternoon on my favorite game, Robotron2084. My one quarter lasted me way past an hour. I had 6.2 Million points when my Dad showed up and grabbed me, saying I better get my azz home, 'cause dinner was ready. I had 7+ (who knows how many?!) lives in reserve, and I had to walk away from the machine. Never before or since did I come close to matching that game. The brains couldn't shoot me, I moved like Neo to dodge their bullets! It was one of just a few times in my life I experienced being "IN THE ZONE" and it's awesome!

[@chaddentandt9868]

Excellent game. This is the most exhilarating game. Definitely one of my top favorites.

[@warrenmcgovern8231]

Fondly remember this game. The sounds, action is intoxicating. I will definatly have one in my home in the near future.

[@runnergo1398]

Many nights playing this masterpiece. Thanks for making this video.

[@pinballKing012]

Love the 80s sounds 👌

[@jjstratford]

Remember playing this at Aladdin’s Castle and killing it at 10 years old. It was between Jungle Hunt and Front Line. I played this, Cloak and Dagger, Burgertime, Battlezone, Berzerk, and Dragon’s Lair til my fingers were about to bleed! Oh..forgot Gorf and Sinistar! Fun days for sure.

[@psterud]

Fun days! No doubt. Battlezone was an asshole, though. So cool but so hard. Could say the same about Dragon's Lair, especially since it was 50 cents.

[@losblancos5089]

Loved Cloak & Dagger, another fantastic game. Like robotron with missions.

[@jammiedodger629]

GORF. Space Ca-det!!

[@FischerFan]

More than 40 years later, this is still a unique video game in that it has not one, but two, joysticks! I have it installed on my PC and, while I could score over a million points back in the 1990s, I can't even get to 400,000 today.

[@suske069]

Aah, the memories. I once got a score of around just slightly under 10 million in Robotron, in the early 80's. I let the game run out by letting all my lives die to keep under 10 million as we were not sure if it would roll over to 0 after that. I still had the whole top screen filled with lives when approaching that. It lasted hours, so I had friends bring me pizza and even was able to take a bathroom break when I had accumulated many lives.

[@getreal268]

I did the same thing , that was the word back then it would go back to zero

[@psterud]

Wow. So cool. Can you approximate how much money you spent to get good at the game? My quarters were few and far between at this point.

[@Metaphyve]

Congrats on a great game! I'm in the process of finishing my own machine, Robotron is the best of the best. Growing up, my family had a deli, and we always had 3 arcade machines set up. I got to play for free (we painted the quarters red and they gave those back, as many as I cared to paint) and I used to play this game half the night after we closed. People would see me through the window playing and be banging on the glass to get me to open up to sell them beer. I went thru a lot of (red) quarters playing this beast. I was seriously pissed when they took this out and brought in Sinistar.

[@johndd9140]

Mesmerizing! 👍 Great gameplay for a great game

[@lisasporbert1799]

Awesome gameplay and game. Grew up on this! The brainiac levels are my favourites

[@MattHudsonAtx]

Still my favorite game of all time.

[@greenjelly01]

Wow this must've felt like being in a block-buster movie for just 25 cents!

[@Kj16V]

Sounds crazy but I find listening to this so soothing to go to sleep to.

[@amagilly]

This game is where Neo from the Matrix got his inspiration from.

[@jimmycypher1919]

WELL PLAYED SIR!

[@SusanHuntington-m5m]

This was my game back in the day. If I could find one I would buy it.

[@jeffreybauer1552]

I remember on some boards Dying as soon as I beamed in there were so many

[@lechiffre5078]

A friend and I once rolled the machine (10 million) playing one hand each. I moved with my left hand and he fired with his right hand. Hold our beer 😉

[@michaelbullen3104]

This dude is a fucking madman, i thought hitting a million was nuts back when I used to rack up scores on this

[@kevinmcclernan3166]

I bought this and Donkey Kong in the mid 90s. The processing chip broke in Robotron a few years after and sold it for parts. Never made it past wave 27

[@namugrim744]

what a play!!!! good job!

[@puglifeX]

i beat your record today after 2h25min - 8,777,100, ;p

[@peterfroustis154]

Good Morning Mr Grumpfish Twirly Whirly Flyers Differences 😎

[@paulmorphy6187]

The levels with the things on wheels are particularly brutal

[@bushtaman8694]

Reflex and peripheral vision, superb. 500k my best on steam deck mame. Apart from defender number 2 best game ever on my list.😉

[@Jay-od2xs]

6 Million Points!! THis will require a second BREAKFAST

[@andresbravo2003]

Williams thought... and well? quite cool how this intense experience plays it well.

[@Julesacu]

Looses a man on wave 3. Still manages to get to wave 236. Impressive stuff.

[@miker5893]

total carnage!!! nice moves. watch on 1.5 speed for a thrill! im playing on ps2. i taped my controller to a pedestal but its had to get anywhere when you only start with 3 lives and the joysticks are tiny.. 1.6 mil was my best on the standup game.

[@zacharyweaver276]

Man imagine if this game got a remake nowadays could be pretty cool

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

It's 2022 A.D. that 2084 date isn't that far away now ! :-O !

[@1683clifton]

Thats friggin rough man!

[@awfulgoodmovies]

I did 36 million and the arcade owner shut the power off! It was 1am and it was probably time I left for home anyway!

[@davidsenger4833]

Hard as shit ! I wasn't very good as this so I played alot of Defender they used the same engine and sound effects and joust too ! All Great Games

[@lucius1976]

Awesome. Never knew that game.

[@oriondx72]

wow great run looked up the world record and its 180m talk about a endurance run.

[@jefff3886]

As a former million+ player I'm watching intensely and catch myself saying, "Wait, he shoulda...." Then I remember that I'm watching a guy who scored 6 million+, and I sit back and just stfu.

[@nickkrug8157]

Complete bad ass !!!

[@PSS521]

Great gameplay. You're an inspiration. What arcade sticks are you using to play this?

[@tripl3xx]

Vampire Survivors from the 80's

[@808BURN3RS]

my favorite Game

[@ronatola]

What did you use as a controller? I have MAME Robotron on my original XBOX and use the x-arcade Dual joysticks. Awesome experience like being in the arcade again, altho no standing up.

[@litoxcas]

I use an Xbox 360 knock-off controller from Amazon. Nothing fancy.

[@ken_danerdiest1]

That is, IMO, an awesome score! I score over 1 million per game.

[@chuckberry3524]

Great game! Two joysticks is the only way to play, so no home computer would ever match the stand-up version!

[@timsampson2941]

I made myself a 4 joystick panel for this, Smash TV, etc.

[@jojobizadTRASH]

At least this game is generous with the HP system because I have no clue how you can do 236 waves without getting 1-ups. Insanely difficult game lol

[@hulkthanos1332]

1 of my favorites

[@moistmike4150]

I remember hating this game when I was a kid - It was just Too. Damn. Hard.

[@psterud]

I felt that way about Defender.

[@moistmike4150]

@@psterud Yeah, Defender was hard, but I was way better at that game. So long ago....

[@psterud]

@@moistmike4150 I hear you. I could last for a little while with Space Invaders, but I was a little too young to survive for long in Defender when it came out. Star Castle was more my speed. :D

[@moistmike4150]

@@psterud Yeah - Star Castle was fun game. I was always fascinated with ray tracing games like Tempest and the Star Wars game. Bloody brilliant entertainment for a quarter (read, "lots of quarters")

[@jammiedodger629]

Don't forget the 1st brain wave "mikey hack"

[@robsioui9046]

Worst part of this game was the random crashes. 30,000,000 points into the game and then it just decides to reset for no reason. The other upset was if you didn't count your extra men and they flipped back to 0 after 256

[@litoxcas]

Fortunately I'm playing the modified Blue ROM Chip which fixes the infamous "corner bug". Eugene Jarvis described it as a bug "where the player practically shoots a bullet into the program stack... and it calls the initialization code".

[@musicfan300]

Enforcer along a sidewall being shot with a diagonal shot.

[@scottrackley4457]

My brother and I used to be pretty damned good at this one. Helps to unfocus your eyes and see through the screen.

[@ThoricAuthority]

This is just like Geometry Wars in a way

[@litoxcas]

I have also played Geometry Wars. There's a video on my channel.

[@deraykrause4517]

Amazing!

[@georgeshelton6281]

I hate to tell you this, but I'm just going to have to as of like right now. I've accidentally stumbled upon/seen the 'Robotron 2084' deviantart that shows, a little girl clone {her name could've been Jana}. She was an extra character, that never appeared in the 'Robotron 2084' video game scene. It's all exaggeration to me.

[@AudioGuyBrian]

My best is only 720,000 and I thought that was hard. You are insanely good at this one. Do you play Defender as well?

[@litoxcas]

Thanks, I used to play Defender a lot and managed to reach the same score you reached in Robotron :) Don't like playing it in an emulator, and original arcades are nowhere to be found. I loved Stargate too but couldn't master it; having an extra button (Inviso) to deal with was too much for me.

[@geonerd]

Nice work!!

[@TheMojazz]

I spent most of my paycheck on playing this game. Seriously!

[@TheMojazz]

Where can I purchase this game and how?

[@ZayTheRailfanner]

@@TheMojazz If You have a PS3 and you buy midway Arcade Origins, Robotron is on there and same as some other classics.

[@TheMojazz]

@@ZayTheRailfanner does it exist in a handheld emulator?

[@ZayTheRailfanner]

@@TheMojazz I think so, Idk if they are on sale, hopefully it is.

[@psterud]

@@ZayTheRailfanner That's the way I played it apart from the arcade. They did a decent job.

[@memes_gbc674]

some people have never even seen past wave 7

[@tron3entertainment]

5 entries per player? Is that really a feature? I guess it was to stop the best players from filling all the slots and discouraging other players trying to make the board.

[@g-max1808]

This is a good game

[@oldiesmusic76]

Oh man, how could you leave all those ladies hangin' at 9:45, so many people points wasted, lost!

[@MRIGUY11]

Ready player one

[@arcadeerik2603]

Nice, wave 36 not 236? What are you playing on original / JROK? What color roms?

[@litoxcas]

The game waves roll back to 0 after wave 99, so I rolled it twice. I played the blue ROM, with the corner bug fix, so it does not crash randomly like the yellow ROM.

[@TC-xh5wp]

I scored 20 mil. My favorite game

[@PSS521]

wave 5, he shoulda horded those humans. lol, just kidding. amazing vid obviously LOL

[@tedmarynowski3881]

I turned Robotron over

[@getreal268]

Im wondering how you have gameplay recorded ? there were no iPhones back then?

[@myblacklab7]

Which ROM is this? I'm using the Solid Blue version on the most recent version of MAME, and it is frustrating because one out of every 15 or so "bullets" goes through the target, instead of destroying it. I've been learning a play-style where I assume that shooting something once won't kill it, and shooting it twice won't always kill it.

[@gregorydunn2716]

WhoisthisADEPT? ShiFu accept me as you disciple!

[@Vectrex-pi5ib]

Instant death after kiting monsters a while on level 1. What am I missing? Some kind of trick?

[@litoxcas]

That's me showing off and being stupid. No tricks there.

[@PrimevalDemon]

I wonder what the 2084 blocks mean? This game is extremely vibrant for the bleakness of the plot

[@VideoArchiveGuy]

The name of the game is Robotron: 2084

[@odius94]

The sound is everything in this game and you pretty much muted it.

[@dwightc3080]

Best arcade game ever

[@psterud]

It is a great one, for sure.

[@pettymp67]

Lets see you get over a million points with "Difficulty of Play" set to 10. Do it!

[@litoxcas]

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[@MichaelRei99]

You have skills. Now turn up the difficulty level where it belongs.

[@peterfroustis154]

Good hair day girl

[@TheZenbudda]

Version of this game I used to play didn’t give this many free men.

[@litoxcas]

This is running on default settings. Three men to start, with extra lives every 25k. Greedy Arcade owners used to change settings to collect more quarters.

[@TheHeyya885]

Seems to me like he is sped up a little operator is not a very good shot just saying I love the game though

[@martingadoury2768]

wow double wow i no

[@truthwarrior122]

You make too many careless mistakes, but redeem yourself with some great angle shooting ad some nice romp-a-roos.

[@nickkrug8157]

"number of players" " ZERO "

[@deraykrause4517]

Hello, Joshua!

[@robertcharvetto1295]

Run Robby run. And by the way he's got it on the easy setting

[@litoxcas]

Wrong. It’s set on Level 5. Level 3 is the default, easy level.

[@billclay2701]

didn't do this with joycons