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Paradroid
Sign in to saveParadroid is a Commodore 64 video game written by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1985. It is a shoot 'em up with puzzle elements and was critically praised at release. The objective is to clear a fleet of spaceships of hostile robots by destroying them or taking over them via a minigame. It was remade as Paradroid 90 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST home computers and as Paradroid 2000 for the Acorn Archimedes. There exist several fan-made remakes for modern PCs. In 2004, the Commodore 64 version was re-released as a built-in game on the C64 Direct-to-TV, in 2008 f
Game data
- Released
- 1985-01-01
- User rating
- 0.00 / 5
- Genres
- Puzzle
- Platforms
- iOS, Wii, Commodore / Amiga
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Game details · IGDB
The game is set on a spaceship viewed from a top-down perspective. The ship consists of numerous rooms and levels, each one populated by hostile robots or "droids". The player, in control of a special droid called the "Influence Device", must destroy all the other droids on the ship. Each droid (including the player) is represented as a circle around a three-digit number. The numbers roughly correspond to the droid's "power" or "level", in that higher-numbered droids are tougher to destroy. The Influence Device is numbered "001". The primary way in which the Influence Device destroys other…
- Released
- 1985
- Genres
- Shooter, Strategy, Tactical
- Platforms
- Commodore C64/128/MAX, Wii
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Graftgold
- Publisher
- Hewson Consultants
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- Screenshot Paradroid GNU.JPG
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- publication date
- 1985-01-01
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- Other clones and games inspired by ''Paradroid''
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Paradroid is a Commodore 64 video game written by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1985. It is a shoot 'em up with puzzle elements and was critically praised at release. The objective is to clear a fleet of spaceships of hostile robots by destroying them or taking over them via a minigame. It was remade as Paradroid 90 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST home computers and as Paradroid 2000 for the Acorn Archimedes. There exist several fan-made remakes for modern PCs. In 2004, the Commodore 64 version was re-released as a built-in game on the C64 Direct-to-TV, in 2008 for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe and in 2018 on the C64 Mini.
==Gameplay== thumb|250px|left|Paradroid on the Commodore 64|C64. The player controls the 139 droid. Enemy forces have hijacked a space fleet by turning its robot consignment against the crew. The goal is to neutralize all the robots, thereby rescuing the humans. The player controls a prototype influence device that allows them to move the hostile robots.