Cybotron
twin stick shooter game for Commodore 64, 1983
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Over the years since the first design was announced in 2001, robots with the
ability to think have increased with their intelligence growing at a fast
rate. Humans over the years now rely on the robots to do all their tasks and
thus have become lazy, and finally the manufacture of the robots was left to
the robots to make themselves. The robots have now come to the conclusion
that there is no place for the humans and have decided to squash them all and
so Trons, Brains, Armedroids, Pulsars, Enforcer Droids and Electrodes are
running amok killing all the humans they find.
Cybotron is a single screen shooter viewed from a high elevated angle and is
inspired by the arcade game Robotron 2084 where you must destroy all robots
on the screen to move to the next level. If you touch any robot then you lose
one of three lives but you are armed with a laser. Two joysticks can be
selected with one controlling your movements while the other joystick
controls your fire direction. Humans also wander around the screen and these
can be collected for bonus points.
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Some useful keyboard shortcuts
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[PAUSE] - stop/continue game
[F9] - quick load game state
[F12] - quick save game state (still stored after leaving the site)
[F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
[ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
[PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)