Infamous game-breaking glitches… But the Spectrum version isĮntirely a different story. (The 16-bit versions followed shortly.)ĭisgraced the C64-version regarding its rushed release and its It took until spring 1989 before the Commodore 64- and ZX Spectrum-owners could play anything RoboCop-related. Then, Ocean programmed and released the home versions. Data East subsequently licensed the rights to develop the arcade game.

Ocean secured the rights for the game long before the movie came out in the theaters.

It perfectly fused extremely violent and gritty action with social commentary and the blurred, mental line between man and machine… So why should the video game adaptation be worse within the boundaries of the media? Granted, the game doesn’t have such juicy on-screen violence that it “needed” to be censored, but the production was quite an unusual one. But that’s exactly why it’s both immortal and timeless these days. That the movie was one huge, ground-breaking and inimitable hit is well known, as is the controversy surrounding most aspects of it.

The tie-in to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 masterpiece of an action thriller… As time goes by, one can’t help wondering if this game didn’t represent some sort of quality apex and a particularly magic video game presence when it came to movie license-based games.

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