Hello everybody and welcome to the K& Rince Podcast, Volume 14, Issue 674, and today we're going to be talking about Robocop.

Just the first one, although we may mention other Robocop titles along the way.

There have been a few, but we wanted to get into the details surrounding

the original game. And for that purpose, and in fact, nominated by joining me Leon Cox in this

issue, it's Dan Clark. You have me begging you for Murphy.

Because that was my game this year.

Yeah, that's very true.

It was your nomination.

We are down to just two for this show.

One of our very rare occasional, more intimate conversational discussions with just the two of us.

It's not that nobody else wanted to play it, it's just circumstantial. But actually, it was probably Dan and I that were the most keen anyway. So to cover

this one off, because it's kind of a storied title. It is for those who don't know, and you might

be able to have guessed, even if you didn't't it's a 2d side-scrolling run

and gun or rather more of a plod and gun being robocop action game based on the

1987 live action feature film of the same name we'll talk a little bit more about the film as

well but obviously that's pretty famous and still exists, still available to watch in this modern age.

So I guess the first thing to say is that the arcade machine was developed by Data East, and this is where I first saw it, but it was actually

sub-licensed out to them by the rights holder Ocean Software of Manchester, England.

We'll talk a bit more about that later. It was released to arcades in 1988 on the Data East

System M-E-C-M-1.

Data East, I don't know, what are your sort of overall thoughts about Data East?

Where do they sit for you in the sort of the canon of great arcade game makers of the 80s?

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