Robotron: 2084 Description

Robotron: 2084 was produced by Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) in 1982.

Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) released 216 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1959.

Other machines made by Williams Electronics, Inc. (1967-1985) during the time period Robotron: 2084 was produced include Sinistar, Joust, Splat!, Warlok, Cosmic Gunfight, Black Knight Limited Edition, Jungle Lord, Pharaoh, Hyperball, and Solar Fire.



The object of the game is to save the last human family although it seems they had a really big family and kill anything or anyone who gets in your way. Two joysticks are used for play control one for movement and the other for firing.

Robotron: 2084 - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.21 (30 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.27



Overall 'Like': 4.41

Fun (Social): 3.57

Fun (Solo): 4.34

Collector Desire: 4.48 Technical Impressions Score: 4.26



Gameplay: 4.45

Graphics: 4.03

Originality: 4.71

Sound/Music: 4.24

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type Upright/Standard (228 pounds - TNT Amusements) Cabaret/Mini Cocktail

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

In wave five, the first brain wave, a mistake in the brain's 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 games credits. To exploit this easter egg, you must execute the following commands during gameplay

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

When the last sequence has been entered, the credits will be displayed until the "fire" joystick is moved from the up position. These sequences must be done within a quarter of a second of each other. You can hold a sequence as long as you like, but when you let it go, you must execute the next sequence within a quarter of a second.

Conversion

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/Coin-Op Robotron: 2084 Census

Very Common - There are 730 known instances of this machine owned by Robotron: 2084 collectors who are active members. Of these, 662 of them are original dedicated machines, 24 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 43 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 21 active VAPS members with Robotron: 2084 machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Robotron: 2084 circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 107 active VAPS members currently looking for Robotron: 2084. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Robotron: 2084 circuit board set.

This game ranks a 94 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 95 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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 occurrences: 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

Manuals

Instruction Manual 11 Pages, 867 kB File. Drawing Set 32 Pages, 2.6 MB File. Instruction Manual 11 Pages, 96 kB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

Video Clips

MAME World Record: Robotron [Solid Blue Label] TGTS 813,500



Robotron 5 man over 1 million part 1



Robotron 2084 - 9 Wave Special



Williams ROBOTRON Arcade video Game



Robotron: 2084



(Arcade) Robotron 2084



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