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Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth

The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth is a computer game for the Commodore 64 designed by David Crane with music by Russell Lieblich, released in 1986 by Activision. In the game, the Autobot team must…

31 December 1986

Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth is a shooter developed by Activision, released 31 December 1986 on Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth is

Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth is a shooter game developed by Activision and released in 1986. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Many millions of years ago, intelligent robots known as Autobots and Decepticons populated the planet Cybertron. While the Autobots longed for a peaceful existence, the Decepticons only dreamed of domination. The ensuing war between the two factions devastated the planet, and expanded into the reaches of space once Cybertron's rich resources became depleted. Caught in Earth's gravitational field, two spaceships carrying a team of each faction respectively crash onto this new planet. The Cybertronians within lay dormant for four million years. They awaken when the Autobots' ship is reactivated by an eruption from the active volcano into which their craft had embedded itself. The robots are…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Transformers series

Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth is the fourth of 50 entries we hold in the Transformers series. It arrived 7 months after Transformer. The next entry was Transformers: The Headmasters in 1987.

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What it launched against

Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Leaderboard.

Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Leaderboard.

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When did Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth come out?
Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth was released on 31 December 1986 for Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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