If it’s not the most frantic game ever created, Robotron: 2084 is definitely in the top five of all time. The 1982 arcade game was one of the many classic games from that era to bear the Williams ...

“Robotron” co-creators Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar are speaking at this weekend’s California Extreme classic arcade games show in Santa Clara. A version of this tribute ran on the SFGate.com blog ...

This week on Shack's Arcade Corner we are taking a look at Robotron: 2084, the 1982 arcade classic. Developed by Vid Kids and published by Williams Electronics players had to kill waves of enemies and ...

Eugene Jarvis took to the stage at GDC to talk about his 1982 Williams arcade hit Robotron 2084, a 2D shooting game noted for its insanely fast-moving action and chock-a-block busy screens. Robotron ...

A former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.… There's more to it ...

First available in the arcade in the early 1980s, Robotron 2084 was a fast-playing, tension-filled blaster that engaged hordes of players with its immersive, distopian environment, kill-or-be-killed ...

Eugene Jarvis had a normal Menlo Park childhood in the 1960s and early ’70s; blowing up Army men with firecrackers, throwing dirt clods at his friends and remaining ignorant of the existence of video ...

Classic 2D arcade shooter Robotron: 2084 will be featured in a Classic Game Postmortem session during the 2014 Game Developers Conference, event organizers announced today. The talk will be given by ...

Microsoft has announced a new Halo game - for arcades. That's right, there's a new Halo game in the works for all those arcades that don't exist anymore. Halo: Fireteam Raven is an arcade shooter for ...

The hilarity of playing arcade games from the early 1980s in HD continues with Robotron 2084 on the Xbox 360 Live Arcade. Originally released way back in 1982 by Williams Electronics, Robotron is just ...

If you’re going to make a dirty, dirty port of Robotron: 2084 for high-end handsets, like the Sony Ericsson S710, the least you could do is include all 255 waves of mind-bending chaos. Instead, ...