Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters

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Name: Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters
Manufacturer: Atari Games
Year: 1989
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
19-inch

Conversion Class: JAMMA
Game Specific: Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters Pinout

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: Hall Effect
Buttons: 3 [FireDuckJump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters Description

Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters was produced by Atari Games in 1989.

Atari Games released 86 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters was produced include Hard Drivin', Cyberball 2072, S.T.U.N. Runner, Badlands, KLAX, Tetris, Vindicators, Pot Shot, Vindicators Part II, and Toobin'.

The evil Reptilons are holding humans hostage on Planet X. Warp in and rescue them, destroying enemy robot monsters with laser blasts, viewed from a three-quarters overhead view. Hall-effect joysticks allow rotation to face any direction.

Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.53 (1 vote)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.80

     Overall 'Like': 5.00
     Fun (Social): 5.00
     Fun (Solo): 4.00
     Collector Desire: 5.00

Technical Impressions Score: 4.25

     Gameplay: 5.00
     Graphics: 4.00
     Originality: 4.00
     Sound/Music: 4.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters Census

There are 12,097 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,507 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 159,184 machines (6,676 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 79 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 43 of these machines are owned by our active Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters collectors. And of these, 24 are original dedicated machines, 5 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 14 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters machine for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters circuit board set.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 18 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 23 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

Uses speech synthesis.

Manuals

Schematic Package 17 Pages, 807 kB File.

Video Clips

Escape from the Planet of Monster Robots - MAMECADE 49

Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, 1989 Atari

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters Flyer #358

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