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Re: Robot video games « Reply #45 on Sept 28, 2008, 5:04pm »
Who can forget Base Wars on the nes. Your robots, that play base ball, and battle to the death over a base. The pitcher has a arm cannon to pitch with.
Has anyone ever played capcom's cyberbots, kikai-oh, or Armored Warriors? I always wanted to try them out.
I played all three of them, all with emulators... Like I said before, Kikaioh is truly an experience. The final boss was too cheap, tho, and I have never been able to finish the came on one credit.
Cyberbots were too tough for my clumsy old hands... I can only get to level 3 or 4 before the CPU nailed me. It's kinda interesting tho, because you choose your pilot, then you choose your mech. Each mech has three variations, the "normal", "heavy armor" and "quick" types. I don't really know if selection of mech decides the ending for the game, tho..
As for armored warriors, the game was fun because it lets you pick up upgrades, but was too hard to be played alone, and rather too short too (only six levels, if I remember correctly). The bosses are awesome too. After continuously inserting credits, I was able to beat it with...my wife!
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #47 on Sept 29, 2008, 12:01pm »
I just beat transformers. You were right about Unicron. I thought I unlocked everything, but you have to play it on the hardest mode to unlock all the datacons. The game was hard enough on medium. I am not sure I want to play it again anytime soon on the hardest mode.
I am about to start on my megaman collection on PS2, then I will try and beat MM9.
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #48 on Oct 2, 2008, 11:47am »
Heir zog zwie, first RTS on the Sega genisis and it was awesome. you played either a blue or red transforming robot (from plane to mecha) dropping units in desired location though you could not attack enemy units directly except for the opposing transforming robt. Goal was to get your units to destroy your opponents base before yours. Hours of fun!
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #49 on Oct 4, 2008, 4:28am »
Does anyone remember an arcade game from Capcom called Side Arms? I used to go down to the local Straw Hat Pizza to play this game. It was great because it was co-op like Double Dragon and Contra, but the two mechs were able to combine and make a powerful robot. It did make it on the Commodore 64 but one player only and on the Turbo Grafix 16/ Turbo Duo.
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #50 on Oct 4, 2008, 5:52pm »
I just got ZOE 1 and its pretty cool. ZOE 2 should be here next week as well as the Steel Battalion + controller for Xbox. I am very excited to try it out.
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #51 on Oct 4, 2008, 8:25pm »
Zone of Enders is cool. I was also thinking of getting Steel Battalion. I remember when that first came out and saw the big box it came in. The $200 price tag at the time stopped me from getting it. How much are they going for nowadays?? Right now I'm playing Macross VFX-2 on the psp. This will hold me over till Macross Ace comes out on the 9th.
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #54 on Oct 10, 2008, 2:51pm »
So my steel battalion just got here. I plugged it on, turned it on and now I am totally geeking out.
You flip switches like on a helicopter to setup fuel system etc... There is a button for everything. Opening the hatch, ejecting etc..
The character animation sucks though and the intro is blah, but other than that the game seems pretty cool.
It also turns out I had a toy from the video game that I bought long before I knew the game existed. The mecha design is mostly cool in this game. Very realistic for hte most part.
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #55 on Nov 16, 2008, 12:45pm »
I just got MECHASSAULT for xbox. It is a pretty cool game. Its all a battle tech setup, and a very fast game. I would like to see one get made that is updated to 360 graphics. The game itself looks good, but the people renders are bad. Steel Battalion has some of the worst people renders I have ever seen though.
Does anyone remember an arcade game from Capcom called Side Arms? I used to go down to the local Straw Hat Pizza to play this game. It was great because it was co-op like Double Dragon and Contra, but the two mechs were able to combine and make a powerful robot. It did make it on the Commodore 64 but one player only and on the Turbo Grafix 16/ Turbo Duo.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned one of the mother of all mech games: THEXDER for the PC-DOS. The game has excellent graphics at the time, and it even has a transformable mech!! The control is pretty intuitive too.
The enemies are tough and the level designs are tight and varied, and it was one of the hardest game I ever played. Took me about two hours of continuous play to finish all 16 level. Unfortunately, the game does not have any real ending - once you destroyed the large generator at level 16, it resets to level 1 again...
Now there's a great memory! I got THEXDER the first Christmas my family purchased our first home computer (an IBM compatible Tandy) and being that I was about 10 or 11 at the time, and already a huge mecha fan, it was pretty much a dream come true (my parents apparently knew me well).
True, the game kicked my back-end, and I don't know that I ever made it past Lv. 10, but it was a blast and I loved trying to make it to the next level over and over again - plus, the ability to transform and use that great beam weapon all over the place! I wish I could go home and fire it up (but sadly its likely in a box somewhere never to be recovered and lost to time)!
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Re: Robot video games « Reply #59 on Nov 19, 2008, 2:59pm »
Oooh. one I just remembered.
One Must Fall: 2097. 1v1 Fighter featuring robots, made by Epic Megagames (now just called Epic, the Unreal/GOW people), it was extremely well done and had a great campaign engine where you could buy upgrades for your pilot and your mech. It's freeware now, too.
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