Robocop Game 1988

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RoboCopis a 1988 superhero animated series based on the 1987 movie RoboCop.[1] The cartoon aired as part of the Marvel Action Universe programming block.[2] The series was animated by AKOM Productions.

The show made a number of changes to the RoboCop universe to make it more appropriate for younger viewers, including replacing bullets with laser weapons and shifting the series to a more science fiction setting. In this series, RoboCop had a red light in the middle of his visor (which occasionally panned the whole visor). It is set in an alternate continuity where events similar to those shown in the movie happened, excluding Clarence Boddicker's death, who shows up in the last episode.

Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also included Marvel Productions, while Amazon's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (under Orion Pictures label) remains as current rights holder of the RoboCop franchise.[3][4][5]

Based on the original movie, the series features cyborg cop Alex Murphy (RoboCop), who fights to save the city of Old Detroit from assorted rogue elements, and on occasion, fighting to reclaim aspects of his humanity and maintain his usefulness in the eyes of the "Old Man", Chairman of Omni Consumer Products. Many episodes see RoboCop's reputation put to the test or soured by interventions from Dr. McNamara, the creator of ED-260, the upgradable version of the Enforcement Droid Series 209 and the top competitor for the financial backing of OCP. He continually develops other mechanical menaces that threaten RoboCop.

In the police force, RoboCop is befriended by Officer Anne Lewis, who is depicted to have romantic inclinations towards him, but is also picked on and lambasted by the prejudiced Lieutenant Roger Hedgecock (who appeared as a minor character in the original film), who is determined to be rid of him and his kind, who he sees as ticking time bomb. Their rivalry comes to a fever pitch during the episode "The Man in the Iron Suit", in which Hedgecock comes close to finally beating Murphy with the aid of a new weapons system developed by McNamara. He almost kills Lewis when she interferes, enraging Murphy into tearing Hedgecock's iron suit apart and nearly crushing his skull before Lewis comes to his aid. RoboCop is maintained by RoboCop Project director Dr. Tyler.

The title sequence features a brief animated variation on Murphy being gunned down by Clarence Boddicker and his gang. Throughout the series, RoboCop struggles to deal with the pain of losing his humanity. Other themes include racism ("The Brotherhood"), prejudice at work ("Man in the Iron Suit"), environmental espionage ("Into the Wilderness"), terrorism, and the Middle East peace process ("A Robot's Revenge").

While this series is based on the original film, there are significant changes to RoboCop and his environment. RoboCop is faster and has a greater range of movement than in the films. The Old Detroit of the series is also considerably more technologically advanced: lasers replace handguns and robots are commonplace, Dr. Tyler (who appears in the original film) is the creator of the RoboCop Program, not Bob Morton, and also serves as one of Murphy's confidants as well as his caregiver, along with Dr. Roosevelt. Clarence Boddicker, the man responsible for Alex's Murphy's death prior to him becoming RoboCop, despite dying in the film, is shown to still be alive and battles RoboCop again in "Menace of the Mind", indicating the series takes place in an alternate continuity.

The reason why there were only 12 episodes instead of the traditional 13 for a weekly animated series is because Marvel Productions used the budget for what would have been the 13th episode of RoboCop to fund a pilot for a proposed X-Men animated series (also known as Pryde of the X-Men).[citation needed]

The cartoon recreates some of the familiar surface level content of the movie: it takes place in Detroit, where Alex J. Murphy (voiced by Robert Bockstael) has been killed, and yes, it looks like the perp was Clarence Boddicker:

PRIME DIRECTIVES are fun if incredibly awkward and lowbudget looking. I have enjoyed the 50 % of the episodes I have watched so far. I certainly had more fun with them than the forgettable remake. They make for fun diversion and should be regarded as disposable OCP propaganda.

I only remember seeing some reruns on the USA network. Never cared about TRANSFORMERS at all. I just disliked the first Michael Bay movie because it was a genuinely awful movie, not because it pissed on the sacred TRANSFORMERS name the same way Bumblebee pissed on John Turturro. The toon was stupid and the toys were too expensive. I think I only had like 2 of them in my entire lifetime. With G.I. JOE I also only really cared about the toys. The Marvel Comics for both those properties had some good issues though and were way more engrossing and better executed than the TV shows.

Also, both writers of the original robocop got screenplay credit on this new one in arbitration. Both Miner and Neumier have seen the film and have spoken about it warmly. Especially Miner. And he hates everything.

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE was terrible. Cheap animation, ugly character designs and barely coherent stories. DUCKULA was awesome. As were DARKWING DUCK and DUCK TALES. And DUCKMAN. Must be something about ducks.

Thanks for the info,pegsman.I never knew about this! This is some relevant film history shit right there. Brandon Lee in a swedish exploitation movie?! Holy Shit! This needs a remastered re-release! Pronto!

There are parts of swedish film history that never gets acknowledged, but seriously needs recognition and the Brandon Lee cameo is just like David Carradines roles in Mats Helge Olssons actionsploitation flicks THE ANIMAL PROTECTOR, THE MAD BUNCH and FATAL SECRET important side notes.

The history writing has almost exclusively been about Ingmar Bergman. Why? Because he is wellknown outside Sweden that boosts a national identity which has absolutely no basis outside a bourgeois pretentious elite.

RoboCop is a beat 'em up/run and gun arcade game developed and published by Data East in 1988 based on the 1987 film of the same name.[6][7] It was sub-licensed to Data East by Ocean Software, who obtained the rights from Orion Pictures at the script stage.[1][8]

Despite being an arcade game, numerous versions appeared for home computers and video game consoles. The first group was released in 1988 for the Apple II, PC compatibles, Amiga, and Atari ST. The Apple and PC ports were developed by Quicksilver Software, while the Amiga and ST versions were developed directly by Ocean. Data East published the game in North America. A NES port followed in 1989, developed by Sakata SAS Co, and a version for the TRS-80 CoCo 3. Ocean developed and published a version for the Game Boy in 1990.

In 1989, Ocean released a different Robocop game that only bore a loose resemblance to the arcade; this version was produced for the Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Tandy Color Computer 3 and Amstrad CPC, as well as PC compatibles, meaning that PCs ended up with two entirely different Robocop games for North American and European audiences. As with many Ocean C64 titles, both cassette and disk versions were released; the North American release (also published by Data East) was based on the disk version. All C64 RoboCop versions were notorious for having high numbers of bugs; in 2015, cracker group Nostalgia released a completely bug-fixed Robocop compatible with both PAL and NTSC machines.[9] A port of the game for the Atari Jaguar was planned but never released.[10][11]

The ZX Spectrum version of RoboCop achieved particular critical success, receiving a CRASH Smash award from CRASH,[18] 94% in Sinclair User[14] and Your Sinclair gave 8.8 out of 10,[19] also placing it at number 94 in the Your Sinclair official top 100. The overall opinion was that this game was better than the original arcade game. Its capture of the original material, smooth scrolling and animation, sampled speech and sound effects were highlighted.

In addition, the ZX Spectrum RoboCop was one of the biggest selling games of all time on that platform and was number one in the sales charts for over a year and a half.[20] It entered the charts in April 1989, and was still in the top five in February 1991.[21] The readers of YS voted it the 9th best game of all time.[22]

The title theme of the Ocean Software versions (composed by Jonathan Dunn) has become well known for its serene, calm tune, which heavily contrasted the tone of both the actual game and the source material; the version of the theme heard in the Game Boy port was later licensed by European kitchen appliance company Ariston for use in a series of TV adverts.[23] The song was also used as the theme song for Charlie Brooker's documentary, How Videogames Changed the World,[24] as well as the music for the Internet short, "Dilbert 3".[23] The song was sampled in Lil B's song, "In Down Bad", from his mixtape "White Flame".[23][25]

A direct tie-in to the events chronicled in the 1987 blockbuster, RoboCop stormed into the arcades a year later in 1988 and would go on to release on basically every home computer and a handful of 8-bit consoles from the same era. A side-scrolling shooter that hewed closely to the events of the movie while chucking in first-person shooting gallery sections to break things up, RoboCop impressed players the world over with its detailed sprite work, satisfying side-scroller shooter action and most surprisingly, story interludes that were fully voiced by the actual actors from the 1987 flick. Clocking in at well over a million copies sold worldwide on home platforms, RoboCop also had the rare distinction of being really rather good no matter which platform you bought it for, with both console and home computer ports of the game giving roundly decent accounts of themselves.

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