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The Adventures of Robby Roto

Robby Roto is a game that Bally/Midway originally released on its Astrocade-based hardware back in 1981. Other games that ran on this hardware include Gorf, Wizard of Wor, and Professor Pac-Man. The author of…

31 December 1981

The Adventures of Robby Roto is an arcade developed by Dave Nutting Associates, released 31 December 1981 on Arcade.

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What The Adventures of Robby Roto is

The Adventures of Robby Roto is an arcade game developed by Dave Nutting Associates and released in 1981. It was published by Midway Manufacturing. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Robby Roto is a game that Bally/Midway originally released on its Astrocade-based hardware back in 1981. Other games that ran on this hardware include Gorf, Wizard of Wor, and Professor Pac-Man. The author of Robby Roto is Jamie Fenton, who acquired the rights to the game after it did not do well in the marketplace.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Adventures of Robby Roto launched on 31 December 1981, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf and Robotron: 2084.

Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf, Robotron: 2084.

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When did The Adventures of Robby Roto come out?
The Adventures of Robby Roto was released on 31 December 1981 for Arcade.

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