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Top Down Halo Anyone?

This has got to be some form of copyright violation. Imagine if Halo was orange juice. This is Sunny Delight. I should think it’s horrible and tasteless and not like it at all. But I actually did. It might be tedious, it might be one paced. It might have a near identical progression of levels, no variation in enemies, and a plot, characters, weapons and generally everything else lifted wholesale from another game, but it reminded me of Gauntlet, and that is enough. Play it, disagree with me, and go back to www.1980s-games.com and play some more ripped off arcade emulations. I particularly recommend Black Tiger, for what would be a hideously frustrating experience were it not for the fact that credits are free these days. I remember putting two weeks pocket money in to the RoboCop arcade machine, and getting killed by the third incarnation of ED-209, the last phase of the last boss. Bastards. Speaking of which – I still need more robots for my top trumps game. Suggestions in the comments please; we already have Johnny 5, ED-209 and some frightening real-doll type android in a french maid’s outfit…

Robot Top Trumps

I was reading this post over at Boston.com, and thinking about robots I have known and loved. There was Ed209, Robocop’s Nemesis, foiled by his creator’s Dalek-like lack of foresight, there was that one with the spinning disc on the front of it that kicked everyone else’s robo-butt on Robot Wars that one time, and everybody loved the Terminator before he got old (did you know that the role of the terminator was almost given to Lance Henriksen, who played Bishop in Aliens?).

So I have a proposal for you: put a comment reminding me of the coolest or most kitsch film or real life robot you can think of, and when I’ve got 20, I’ll make a Top Trumps card game out of them, and post it here for you to print out and take to school. Just don’t start fighting about whether the T1000 should have a better weapon score than Johnny 5, or you’ll get them confiscated.