Paradroid

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Description

Paradroid is a top view shoot-em-up set aboard eight large space freighters filled with droids. After going through a storm in space, the rays affected the droids and they malfunctioned and killed the crew.

You now have to destroy all the droids on the fleet of eight ships. You control an "Influence Device" which can temporarily control other droids and use their weapons to destroy the others. When your power is low or your damage is high, you will need to transfer to another droid or risk losing your Influence Device.

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Alternate Titles

• "Heavy Metal Paradroid" -- Re-release title

Part of the Following Groups

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

User Reviews

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Commodore 64

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Critic Reviews

Zzap!	Commodore 64	Nov, 1985	97 out of 100	97
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Wii	Jun 02, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Apr, 1989	89 out of 100	89
Retrogaming History	Commodore 64	Nov 27, 2009	8.5 out of 10	85
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Nov, 1985	21 out of 25	84
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Commodore 64	Nov, 1985	33 out of 40	82
Nintendo Life	Wii	May 22, 2008		80
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Dec, 1988	9.2 out of 12	77
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Apr, 1986	7.5 out of 10	75
Happy Computer	Commodore 64	Dec, 1985	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The Commodore 64 version of Paradroid appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Heavy Metal Paradroid and Competition Edition

For the budget re-release Heavy Metal Paradroid, the playing speed was increased and the scenery slightly darker. According to Braybrook, it was "Paradroid with Morpheus style graphics. The Competition Edition, which utilizes the same faster routines, but retains the original graphics look was released as part of a compilation with Uridium +.

Title

According to Andrew Braybrook, the game's name is "a play on "PARAnoid anDROID" – everyone's out to get you."

Awards

• Commodore Force
  • December 1993 (Issue 13) – #92 “Readers' Top 100”
• Commodore Format
  • April 1991 (Issue 7) - listed in the A to Z of Classic Games article (Great)
  • January 1992 (Issue 16) - Cf's all time Top Ten Essential Mega Games
  • November 1994 (Issue 50) – #15 The All-Time Top 50 C64 Games
• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 03/2013 – One of the "Ten Best C64 Games“
• Happy Computer
  • 1986 - Runner-up as Action Game of the Year
  • Issue 04/1987 - #9 Best Game in 1986 (Readers' Vote)
• Retro Gamer
  • October 2004 (Issue #9) – #23 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
• Zzap!
  • January 1990 (Issue 57) – 'The Best Games of the 80's Decade' (Stuart Wynne / Robin Hogg / Phil King)

Related Web Sites

• Mental Procreation' - working diary by Andrew Braybrook (March 1987) (First in the series of a monthly diary on the making of Morpheus in UK magazine Zzap!, includes how the Paradroid variants came about)
• The Birth of Paradroid (A monthly diary on the making of the game in Zzap! by Andrew Braybrook.)