Spiderbot

aka: Arac, Arac and the Arachnidroid

Released

1986 on Commodore 64

Credits

2 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

Publishers

Developers

Addictive Games Ltd

Moby Score

7.4

#7,770 of 163K

Critics

78% (7)

Players

(13)

Ranking

#107 on Commodore 64

Collected By

8 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Side view
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay: Metroidvania
Platform
Puzzle elements

Commodore 64 Specs [ all ]

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: Cassette Tape

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Description official descriptions

You're a robotic insect, leading a normally happy life in your robotic jungle, when some of your robotic cousins decide to chew through the nearby citadel. Unfortunately for you, they're threatening to chew right through the reactor core! Capture renegade insects to stop their damage, and use them later to perform tasks for you.

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Screenshots

Credits (Commodore 64 version)

By	Paul O'Malley
Cover Artwork	Steinar Lund (as Steinar)

Reviews

Critics

Average score: 78% (based on 7 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 13 ratings with 1 reviews)

Look, it's Spiderman. Oh wait, I was wrong.

The Good
At the time I first played Spiderbot, I had just gotten my first CGA computer and was only five years old and at the time anything was good on the CGA.

The Bad
Now that I look back, I see that Spiderbot was a sham. Terrible graphics, controls from hell and sound that put shame on the name of PC Speaker. Thinking about the game now, what you actually had to do really didn't make much sense. It was more or less going around room to room, banging the keys to hopefully discover that you were doing something right.

The Bottom Line
Bad. That's all there is to it.

PC Booter · by Derrick 'Knight' Steele (2347) · 2000

Trivia

One of the error messages inside the program is "Invalid sprite data, bucko!"

The coloring of the sprites of this game (each sprite uses only one color) suggest that it was originally developed for the Spectrum and then ported to other platforms.

Was marketed under Epyx's "Maxx Out!" series.