Are there any good ROB homebrew games? I finally found mine in storage after many years and don’t want to play shitty Stack Up
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>>12493471ROB was just a short-lived dumb gimmick they used to promote the NES at its initial US test market launch and was soon discontinued.
>>12493482?
I'm working on a homebrew for it that allows ROB to beat you off with a pocket pussy (sold spearately)
>>12493471I feel bad gor yhis fella. He got 2 games, one is... okay for an early NES title and the other is hardly a game
what could you even do with this thing? its an inherently boring concept
>>12493471I don't think so. There is a page for R.O.B. on the NESDev wiki so someone could make one, though I can't imagine you could make a very fun game out of it. I did find an Atari 2600 demo someone made that let's you control R.O.B. That's neat, I guess.
>>12493630It wasn't supposed to be a particularly riveting concept. It was supposed to convince American parents that it somehow wasn't part of a "video game" system. How this ended up working is beyond me, but it did. ROB and the Zapper sold units to Atari weary parents, and then were promptly forgotten.History seems to remember this move as the one that "saved" the vidya industry from a non-existent crash, but whatever. I got bunches of Atari tapes for a dollar, and eventually got an NES when it released. Good times.
>>12493898It wasn't for convincing consumers to buy the console. It was for convincing retailers to carry stock. It's not like people suddenly stopped liking video games after 1983.
My R.O.B. doesn't work anymore, can't move fully. I imagine a lot of them are broken down now. Making homebrews for the small audience of people with working R.O.B.s interested in playing with them again is super small.But homebrew dev for old consoles is already a niche thing, so I'm sure someone would want to try it if only to be the first.
>>12493906>It's not like people suddenly stopped liking video games after 1983.That was exactly my point, but the media was hammering the point home nightly about how the "industry was done" because Atari was dumb, and parents were eating it up. I'd imagine the retailers were feeling the same pressure, as you mentioned.There was no "video game crash of '83," but you wouldn't know it reading the history that's been written about it since it allegedly happened. What happened was a mild market recession when people decided to stop buying the then current glut of shovelware available (mostly for the 2600). Nintendo didn't actually need any of the weird marketing lingo or hardware gimmicks to sell their system here, and had they just said "fuck it" they would have done fine.
>>12493490Thisロボット on the other hand...
>>12493506It better be called Beat-Off.
>>12493506Robotic Operating Bussy
>>12493471>i jest watched a youtube about something spoon feed me
>>12493921learn to repair stuff, dummy
>>12493932didn't Joseph Goebbels famously say if you lie often enough it becomes the truth?
>>12494681>Godwin's LawDammit.
>>12494679Jokes on you. I don't even have one. I'm just a poor underage child fishing for (You)s
>>12495254What are (you)s?
>>12494679That's the point, anon. Why would I bother taking time to repair my R.O.B. that I never use? There aren't that many people that still routinely playing Gyromite and Stack-Up.My broken R.O.B. looks just as good on my shelf as a working one.
>>12495481>>12495254This is getting to be some weird new troll I don't even have a word for.
>>12493957>>12493997Acknowledged
>>12495487It's pretty basic actually, >>12495254 is just pretending to be >>12493921. Pretty simple trolling that works on any anonymous board. Meanwhile, >>12495481 is the real >>12493921.
>>12494681Yes, but he was referring to Apple IIs in Japan, Auster.
>>12495410>>12495487user is underage
>>12493471the only use for Gyromite was harvesting its Famicom adapters
