R.O.B.
Sign in to saveAlso known as Robotic Operating Buddy, ROB, Robot, HVC-012, The Ancient Minister, your robot partner
R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) is a toy robot accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). He was key to the NES's launch in October 1985, as a redesign of the which had been launched in July 1985 in Japan for Famicom and was available as part of the Deluxe Set until 1988. During its short lifespan, only two games in the Robot Series were released: Gyromite and Stack-Up.
Key facts
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- R.O.B.
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- NES-ROB.jpg
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- R.O.B. has the NES color scheme.
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- Nintendo
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- Video game controller
- Information appliance.aka
- Robotic Operating BuddyFamily Computer Robot
- Information appliance.generation
- Third generation
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Development
- Release
- Hardware
- Games
- ''Gyromite''
- ''Stack-Up''
- Aftermarket
- Reception
- Legacy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) is a toy robot accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). He was key to the NES's launch in October 1985, as a redesign of the which had been launched in July 1985 in Japan for Famicom and was available as part of the Deluxe Set until 1988. During its short lifespan, only two games in the Robot Series were released: Gyromite and Stack-Up.
Following the North American video game crash of 1983, Nintendo courted a fearful retail market by rebranding its Japanese Famicom video game console as the Nintendo Entertainment System—a new platform focused on R.O.B. to further reclassify the system as a uniquely sophisticated toy experience instead of simply as a video game console. Computer Entertainer called R.O.B. "the world's only interactive robot".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “R.O.B.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.