Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
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Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters has the player sent on a rescue mission to Planet X. This planet has been taken over by robots and it's up to the player to find and evacuate the remaining humans.
It's a shooter similar to Gauntlet, only with an isometric viewpoint. The protagonist runs around the levels shooting robots, rescuing humans and picking up items. The player has 3 lives and 9 continue play credits.
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- הבריחה מכוכב המפלצות - Hebrew spelling
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Critics
Average score: 79% (based on 29 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 30 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
Nice EGA graphics. Not too difficult. Has a Zombies Ate My Neighbors vibe.
The Bad
Yes, the keyboard controls are horrible but you can edit the KBD.KBD file using a hex editor to change the controls to your preferred keyboard scancodes. Here's my file which changes fire to CTRL (which also starts the game), bomb to ALT, pause to SHIFT, and quit to ESC. The arrow keys already control movement. Second player is changed to W,A,S,D,<,>:
48 50 4B 4D 1D 38 11 1F 1E 20 33 34 01 3C 1C
The Bottom Line
With a little keyboard tweaking this is an instant favorite.
Arcade · by gzip (26) · 2024
Trivia
Accidental covermount release
One UK ST magazine offered a playable demo of this on a coverdisk. Or, at least, that's how it seemed, until tens of thousands of readers loaded it up and found themselves presented with the full game, then retailing at £25!
Version differences
In the Amiga and Atari version (probably in the other computer conversions too) the gore animations from the arcade version when dying in the spike machine trap were removed.
Awards
- ST Format
- January 1993 (issue #42) - #42 in '50 finest Atari ST games of all time' list
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Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters entry at KLOV
The Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters coin-op game entry at the Killer List of Videogames.
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Contributors to this Entry
Game added by Servo.
SAM Coupé added by Rola. ZX Spectrum added by Kabushi. Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST added by Martin Smith. Arcade added by Pseudo_Intellectual.
Additional contributors: Martin Smith, LepricahnsGold, Patrick Bregger, Ingsoc, Jo ST.
Game added January 17, 2002. Last modified June 20, 2024.