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[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[SJRB]

VIDEOGAMES

 

[RagnarokIV]

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[MetalFreak]

Looks like a fever dream

 

[Robb]

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Very REZ inspired haha! That's cute.

 

[Spukc]

 

[envyzeal]

 

[midnightAI]

That.... was a great game back in 1984

 

[Chuck Berry]

 

[yogaflame]

First SOp leak?

 

[Markio128]

 

[Hookshot]

Looked horrible and then I saw it was playable in VR. Dead kids incoming.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Reminds me of Tempest 2000. Even down to the techno soundtrack.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Kacho]

 

[hemo memo]

 

[mitch1971]

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Might be cool in VR. Has a PSVR2 logo there.

 

[clarky]

Remember playing this back in the day down the arcade. Odd thing to bring back

 

[Kataploom]

Why giving it the name of the Asimov book and basically blocking anyone else to use it? Is that legal?

 

[Fess]

Jeff Minter?

 

[Dacvak]

 

[Rush2112]

Clearly, a slap in the face.

 

[Spukc]

Pre 8 bit era single screen games aged like wet dogshit.

And tbh 16 bit was the era shit started to be real good.

 

[CliffBronger]

I remember playing the arcade version and wishing for a quality C64 version which never happened.

40 years later i finally get my wish ...

 

[CamHostage]

That.... was a great game back in 1984

I was wondering how long it would take for GAF to recognize the original. Kudos

I Robot was a breakthrough experiment with "3D" graphics, alongside the Star Wars arcade game and Battlezone. It also was an innovator in audio, character focus, minigame structure, and other aspects. Not many people have played it (it was not a hit, it did not have a popular franchise tie like Star Wars or even the Star Trek arcade game, it's hard, and IMO its only sometimes fun to play, ) but it's historically important.

It's also a good game to do a retro remake of... although the OP could have given more of a heads up in the headline that this isn't what most people might expect.

Reminds me of Tempest 2000. Even down to the techno soundtrack.

Yep. Same designer, Jeff Mintner.

 

[TGO]

As it turns out...yes, yes it can.

 

[Roman Empire]

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[Loomy]

 

[ReBurn]

A trippy Jeff Minter game? I'm there day one.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Jeff Minter?

Yup.

 

[jufonuk]

Yup.

It is him.

 

[Dr. Suchong]

Was reading about this literally hours ago.
Can't wait to play Jeff Minters spin on this!
He's expressed a desire to do a sequel to Space Giraffe too, let's hope that's coming next!
Awesome!

 

[bender]

Day 1

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

Atari

pass

 

[Imtjnotu]

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[Dorago]

I tried playing the first one on MAME and it didn't make a lick of sense.

It was amazing how good Atari got the graphics on those custom cabinets back then though.

"First polygon" game is apt though, because it's incomprehensible like a 3DO or early PSX game.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

What the...

WILL help us NOW !

 

[RedC]

Suprised I've never seen or heard of this game given my history and love for arcade games.

 

[Venuspower]

 

[Redneckerz]

That.... was a great game back in 1984

Exactly. One of the first, if not the first game with 3D polygon graphics, with a custom Mathbox processor.

This is a legendary, iconic game.

 

[Stamps1646]

As a Tempest fan, I'm all in. <3

 

[Danjin44]

 

[cartman414]

I expected this to be a standard modern game that happened to be named I, Robot, not an actual Atari remake.

 

[MrCunningham]

5 seconds into the gameplay, and I knew it was going to be another Jeff Minter remake. No, I haven't followed any development on it, or knew about it. But the game has Jeff Minters visualization all over it. Not saying that is a bad thing. Looks kinda cool.