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This game, on the C64 was amazing, and my favourite! Out of all the games I had ..... wow. Even now, I quite often reference the number '821' for certain things, as that was always my favourite droid. It was one of the faster ones, and it had the most powerful weapon - the double laser. I think from memory only the 629 and 999 had the same type of weapon.

Never heard of thid game before 😮, maybe I should play it

Cool, I will grab this game!

I remember playing this game back in the 80's and I had it on a c60 with who dares wins 2 and Ghetto blaster. The transfer game took me a while to figure out also. But once I figured out holding down the button did something, I also had to figure out why 001 changed colour for and what I was supposed to do next. This game was quite unforgiving, and a mistake was deadly. My nemesis wasn't 476 it was always the disrupter droids 711 and 742. 834 was the blue orb of death, and the 821 droids were always sought after but difficult to catch. It Always annoyed me that the CPU could fire multiple shots like 883 and 999, but you could only fire one on screen at the same time or till the laser hit something. Great Video and review!

001-302-476-711-821-999

Great video. Loved playing this back in the day..............and reading Zzap 64 reviews.

Could the Arachnifoe be from a couple years later? Because the movie Arachnophobia came out in 1990...

C64 forever - especially the cool sounds!

pure nostalgia

You made me nostalgic for a game I've never played. Good show!

The later made Quazatron on the ZX Spectrum, was a bit better looking (not sure if it was release on the C64 though?)

Part 2 ? Maybe?

Best C64 game in my opinion. Always loved to play it. Amazing video, very well explained, thank you.

I loved both the C64 and Amiga versions of the game. That’s said, there is one thing about Paradroid 90 that always bothered me. It only scrolls vertically, there’s no horizontal,scrolling in it at all. I wonder why Andrew did that.

I think AB used gribblys day out scroll code as a starting point

I bought this game in 86 and still remember the 476 lol

Best game ever.

Crystal fever is a ripoff/port/clone of the Amiga/ST game "Emerald Mine" released in 87. The visuals are close enough I spotted it in seconds, the round bomb is a dead give away.

loved the game back in the day i want a remake for pc

Thanks very much for a fantastic trip down memory lane. I absolutely loved this game, but like you, struggled to understand the transfer game. Once I figured that out, I was hooked. Andrew Braybrook was one of my heroes as a kid, along with Rob Hubbard.

I remember being one of like, 5 people globally who grew up on a C64 mostly isolated from the Sega/Nintendo wars of the early 90s (I jest of course.) As an artist still today, my imagination often filled in the spaces when it came to minimalist computer games. I was also amused by the influence device's icon because it looks chill, like it's just being... :|

After 3 years of waiting, the anticipation for part 2 is reaching incredible heights.

I don’t know you could choose sides in the transfer mini game! Another little facet of the game that was beyond most things off the time was that the movement worked on an accumulative acceleration rather than just the 8 directions of the joystick. So if you pushed right you get to full speed in a second or so. But you could then push up to swerve etc. this allowed for bumping into things and bouncing off more realistically. Overall it added to the feel of game immensely and also compounded the scariness when you’d enter room at full speed only to find a 476 behind the door and you’d have to serve our back pedal rather than just instantly switch directions.

Dude. How have you only made 3 videos? this is phenomenal

great game. it'd be my first pick for a nostagia review too tbh. nothing like layers of strategy and complexity.

Loved Crossfire, Hawk Eye, IK+, Way of the Exploding Fist and Paradroid

Nice content dude, big like👍🏻

Deactivators... Strangeloop... Clean-Up Time

Great overview! It's rare to find retrospectives that go out of their way to explain the mechanics in such detail. Please consider doing more of these!

Bandits! Damn, man! My dad and brother used to play the hell out of it ^^

Great video man.. I liked your style of narration too. 👍🏼

The game was amazing. Had huge replay value. Wonderful roguelike style. Sound effects were fantastic. The sound when you're close to dying on low energy, sooo good.

Nice 1

I LOVE C64 👍🥂🎩

This is great. I know of Paradroid mostly through its reputation. You explaining the hacking mini-game was really helpful because when I tried it, it make no sense. 🙂

The LEMON64 top 100 has waaaayyyyy too many strategy/rpg/adventure games up the top for a computer with the most powerful sprite and sound hardware ever seen in 1982 for my liking. Most of my fav games are in the ZZAP!64 Top 64 (printed around page 80 in the launch issue in May 1985), now that is a list that matches my own 1983-1988 Commodore 8bit gaming tastes. I did miss out on some really awesome budget games like CJ Elephant/DJ Puff. and Dizzy Down the Rapids/Kwik Snax but waaaaayyyy too many 4 colour only background big conversions were being pumped out around 1989/1990 onward so I left the C64 at a good time to move into ST/PC Engine/Amiga and Megadrive by end of 1989. R I S K by The EDGE is the last C64 game I bought, a console quality resource management + shmup beauty with no multiload, joy.

thanks! crossfire is a legend!

Very good video structure and concise overview of the game! I am currently building a game based on this game in university and it´s proved to be really helpful! Keep it up!

You have a soothing voice, how about a paradroid 90 vid?

i plyed bandits a lot. great game.

I bought this on release after reading Andrew Braybrooks diary in Zzap. Astonishingly slick presentation and depth of gameplay.

The 001 droid looks like it has a cartoony face.

Absolutely agreed. One of my top all-time favs ever. One thing: The 3d modeled Droid previews (showing before the locking game) is stunning for that time considered

Loved Paradroid!

Nemesis The Warlock

Mad. That stealth mechanic when hiding behind a wall blew me away

Why didn't you show the far superior Paradroid redux? It has all the bugs from the original games fixed, has both the standard edition as well as the metal edition and adds difficulty and benefits to the original game. Nice vid otherwise, bit you didn't show the awesome disruptor or the security terminal showing the other bots up to 999. Good vid otherwise!

too bad i never got into this game. I just didn't figure it out. And I always thought that the 00 in 001 were actually the eyes of the robot. thx for your upload.

I used to play Bandits in my young days. Great game

Where from is that music playing at the beginning?