Mangia-Boy Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 At the moment I try to improve my Robotron scores. I play the one joystick version. I have the greatest problems every 5th round when the brains appear. What's the best method to avoid death by the lightnings ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Yeah, shoot them as quickly as you can before they fire! lol Seriously, if you don't have a joystick coupler which turns this good game into a great game, can always have a second player firing away as you run and dodge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKON Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 shoot the lightnings...they are worth 25 points a piece. In the manual they are called cruise missiles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaynz Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 1) Accept your robot master overlords. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Avoid death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyBritish Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Also grab the humans as quickly as you can to rack up some extra lives - robotron 2084 with dual joystick is awesome on the 7800 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 In the arcade version, the brains will all be pursuing a single family member. I don't know if they do this on the 7800, but it is as if there is a queue for who they want to turn first, and one of the family members is at the top of the queue. If you can figure out which family member it is and "protect" him/her then you can stop them from turning the other members to more brains. That can get a little tricky, so perhaps a more reliable strategy is just to find the biggest concentration of brain guys before play starts and go right for them blasting away. An arcade play technique is to "waggle" the firing around a diagonal direction; quickly moving the firing between the diagonal and the cardinal directions immediately to the left and right. So if you imagine the 8 directions as being numbered going clockwise, you could describe this as waggling the firing between positions 2 & 1 then 2 & 3. You cover a large section of the playfield this way and can move around more freely. I'll add that I've gone many times looking for tips, but it doesn't really seem to help me much. I think I'm still stuck in the 200k range for a high score. (MAME) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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