Robot Attack
{{short description|1981 video game}}
{{redirect|ROBOT Attack|Return Of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat (ROBOT)|Adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack}}
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| title = Robot Attack
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| developer = Big Five Software
| publisher = Big Five Software
| programmer = Bill Hogue
Jeff Konyu{{cite web |last1=Hague |first1=James |title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers |url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/}}
| platforms = TRS-80
| released = 1981
| genre = Multidirectional shooter
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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. It was the first game from Big Five to include speech.{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Matthew |title=Robot Attack |url=http://www.trs-80.org/robot-attack/ |website=TRS-80.org}}
Gameplay
Robot Attack is a game in which the player fights against hostile robots aboard a space station. The player starts in a mazelike room full of robots, and the goal is to destroy the robots and exit the room. 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.{{cite web |last1=Hogue |first1=Bill |title=TRS-80 Games |url=http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/trs80/trs80main.htm |website=Big Five Software}}
Reception
Ian Chadwick reviewed Robot Attack in Ares Magazine #12 and commented that "Robot Attack is highly recommended for the nimble fingered arcade buff and even more so for the curious programmer who wishes to discover the secrets behind the usual technique of voice replication used here. Another feather in the cap of Big Five".{{cite journal | last=Chadwick | first=Ian | title=Software | journal=Ares Magazine | publisher=Simulations Publications, Inc. | date=January 1982 | issue=12 | pages=32–33}}
Bruce Campbell reviewed Robot Attack in The Space Gamer No. 52.{{cite journal|last=Campbell |first=Bruce |date=June 1982 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=52|pages=40}} 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".
See also
References
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External links
- [https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1982-08/page/n37/mode/2up Review] in 80 Micro
- [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1982-07/page/n29/mode/2up Review] in Creative Computing
Category:Big Five Software games