Robotron: 2084
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Robotron: 2084 is a twin-stick shooter video game developed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar of Vid Kidz and released by Williams Electronics for arcades in 1982. The game is set in the year 2084 in a
Eugene Jarvis
Larry DeMar
The developers derived the game's Orwellian world from George Orwell's seminal dystopian story Nineteen Eighty-Four (pictured).
Robotron: 2084 followed Williams Electronics' design trend in the early 1980s of using the Motorola 6809 microprocessor (pictured) as the arcade machine's main CPU.
Smash TV
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Smash TV is a twin-stick shooter developed and published by Williams Electronics as an arcade video game in 1990. It was designed by Eugene Jarvis and programmed by Mark Turmell, with similar gameplay
Robotron: 2084
…as the game that popularized it in the 1980s; the design later saw a resurgence in the 2000s. Jarvis used the same control scheme later in the 1990 Smash TV. Robotron was ported to numerous home systems, most of which lacked the arcade's control hardware. It is frequently listed as one of Jarvis's best…
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