Paradroid 90 (Amiga)

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Description

Paradroid 90 is a remake of the game Paradroid (released in 1985 for the Commodore 64) for slightly later systems.

A fleet of space freighters carry a cargo of battle and security robots to help in the defence of Basmyth. Alien ships were bombarding the freighters with disorienting beams which drove the robots crazy. The human officers were eliminated, leaving the ships open for occupation by alien forces. At this point the players mission starts...

You control a cybernetic influence device (ID) which has been teleported aboard the first freighter to eliminate all the droids and robots. Two ways are possible to clean the ship decks representing the action part and the more strategy part of the game: Shooting (action) to destroy the robots or connecting itself into an other robot's brain (strategy) and take temporarily control of it.

It's possible to play the game as a simple shoot-em-up game, but the main part of Paradroid 90 is the transfer game to take control of other droids.

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Alternate Titles

• "Paradroid 2000" -- Acorn Archimedes title

Part of the Following Groups

• Paradroid lineage
• Protagonist: Robot
• Setting: Space station / Spaceship

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Critic Reviews

The One	Sep, 1990	95 out of 100	95
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Aug, 1990	93 out of 100	93
The Games Machine (UK)	Sep, 1990	91 out of 100	91
Zzap!	Sep, 1990	90 out of 100	90
Your Amiga	Sep, 1990	85 out of 100	85
Power Play	Dec, 1990	84 out of 100	84
Amiga Power	May, 1991		83
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Nov, 1990	8.2 out of 12	68
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	Feb 08, 2008	4 out of 6	67
Amiga Joker	Nov, 1990	62 out of 100	62

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Trivia

Cancelled TurboGrafx version

A version for the TurboGrafx / PC Engine console was also in development. When Hewson went bankrupt NEC attempted to recall the development kit, believing that the game was being developed in-house. Graftgold attempted to receive clearance from Hewson to release the conversion independently of them, but this was not granted in time for the game to be released. Steve Turner commented years later that "Although I felt sorry for Hewson I was bitter that a simple letter may have let us get our reward for all the work we had done". On a similar note, in a 1992 interview with Amiga Power magazine, Graftgold's Andrew Braybrook declared that their "choice of publisher was a real duffer. We got terrible artwork, terrible publicity and no royalties".

Awards

• Amiga Power
  • May 1991 (Issue #00) - #22 in the "All Time Top 100 Amiga Games"