Robot Attack

Robot Attack
Developer(s) Big Five Software
Publisher(s) Big Five Software
Programmer(s) Bill Hogue
Jeff Konyu[1]
Platform(s) TRS-80
Release 1981
Genre(s) Shooter

Robot Attack is a clone of the arcade game Berzerk written by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu for the TRS-80 and published by Big Five Software in 1981.[1] It was the first game from Big Five to include speech.[2]

Gameplay

The player is on a space station held by hostile robots.[3] The player starts in a maze-like room full of robots, and the goal is destroy the robots and exit the room.[2] The maze walls, robots, and the robots' shots are all deadly. After a while in each room, an indestructible "flagship" appears which performs the same function as Evil Otto in Berzerk.

Development

Bill Hogue recorded the voice lines on tape and digitized them through the TRS-80 cassette port.[4]

Reception

Bruce Campbell reviewed Robot Attack in The Space Gamer No. 52.[3] Campbell commented that "Robot Attack gets a high recommendation. It will quickly pay for itself by saving you quarters you are spending at the arcade."[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. 1 2 Reed, Matthew. "Robot Attack". TRS-80.org.
  3. 1 2 3 Campbell, Bruce (June 1982). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer. Steve Jackson Games (52): 40.
  4. ↑ Hogue, Bill. "TRS-80 Games". Big Five Software.
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